National Diet Library Newsletter
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The
NDL set out to collect books of the Gordon W. Prange Collection
-- The University
of Maryland and the NDL signed
a memorandum of
understanding for a joint project for media conversion --
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Mr. Takao Kurosawa, Librarian of the NDL, visited the University of Maryland on May 2, 2005, for the signing ceremony of the memorandum of understanding (MOU) which formalized a joint project for media conversion of the books in the Gordon W. Prange Collection. At the ceremony, Dr. C.D. Mote, President of the University of Maryland, and Mr. Kurosawa signed the MOU and expressed their willingness to expand the cooperative relationship.The Gordon W. Prange Collection is a comprehensive collection of publications owned by the University of Maryland including books, periodicals and newspapers issued in Japan from 1945 to 1949, the early period of the Occupation by the Allied Powers. The NDL has already microfilmed the periodicals and newspapers in the Collection, and it is now embarking on collecting the 71 thousand books. Based on the MOU, 8,000 children's books will start to be microfilmed from this coming autumn as the first phase of the project.
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