The library continued to add videos, music albums, and microfiche to its collection. In the 1980s the library added two computers for Marines studying with Roosevelt University. The library also provided Marines with the Library of American Civilizations, which consists of 19,000 books, for their studies.
In 1982, Murray Visser, the supervising librarian, introduced a plastic card system for checking out books to patrons. This system used the patron’s plastic card to stamp a book’s checkout card.
By 1988, the library began working on a project to computerize the cataloging system. The project took three years, and required the processing of 40,000 books, tapes, and maps. The MCAS Kaneohe library was the first military library in Hawai'i to have a fully computerized cataloging system.
