Chapter 12Sara sat alone in the dimly lit archival section of the Lihue Public Library on Hardy Street, the main library in the Kauai county seat. Hunched over with a small lamp on the desk and needing reading spectacles gave her the feeling of being a serious graduate student researching for a thesis. A stack of old microfiche tapes in dusty containers sat on the edge of the desk.
The library staff was in the process of converting all records to DVDs, but with recent budget cuts, personnel to complete the task was limited and progress slow. The library did have a donated scanner to transfer records to DVD, but the majority of old records remained on deteriorating film. Sara planned to tell the librarian that all this data could all go into cloud storage on a data base. In the middle of t
