No. 145, October 2005 | National Diet Library

National Diet Library Newsletter

No. 145, October 2005

NDL Website:
additions of contents and data to the digital collections
and the Asian Language Materials OPAC

contents

1. Digital Library from the Meiji Era Eabout 5,000 volumes added
2. Digital Library of Children Literature - 875 titles added
3. NDL Asian Language Materials OPAC EBooks in Indonesian and Malaysian languages are now searchable

1. Digital Library from the Meiji Era - about 5,000 volumes added

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To the Digital Library from the Meiji Era (Japanese only)

On August 2, 2005, about 5,000 volumes were added to the digital image database of the books published in the Meiji era. The NDL received in April 2005 a compulsory license from the Commissioner for Cultural Affairs for authors whose copyright successors' addresses were still unknown. (For the details of this procedure, please refer to this article)
Most of the books added this time have become available on the Internet with this compulsory license. With this addition, the number of volumes available amounts to 59,900. Below are some examples of the added books:

Furandasu no inu by Ouida. Published by Naigai Shuppan Kyokai, Meiji 41 [1908] (Japanese translation of Dog of Flanders)
Tono monogatari by Kunio YANAGITA. Published by Kunio YANAGITA, Meiji 43 [1910]
Shinyaku Genji monogatari by Akiko YOSANO. Published by Kanao Bun'endo, Meiji 45 [1912]-Taisho 2 [1913]

2. Digital Library of Children Literature - titles added

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To the Digital Library of Children's Literature (Japanese only)

This digital library started in April 2003 with digital images of children's books published mainly before 1955 held by the International Library of Children's Literature. 1,197 titles with 42,240 images are available including 875 titles of books added in July 26, 2005, after having gone through necessary procedures concerning their copyright issues. Below are some examples of the added books:

Inago no dairyoko by Haruo SATO. Published by Shun’yodo, Showa 4 [1929]
Aka noppo ao noppo by Takeo TAKEI. Published by Kodansha, Showa 23 [1948]

3. NDL Asian Language Materials OPAC EBooks in Indonesian and Malaysian languages are now searchable

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To the NDL Asian Language Materials OPAC

Since August 5, 2005, bibliographic data of the books written in Indonesian and Malaysian languages held in the Kansai-kan have been available on the NDL Asian Language Materials OPAC. This OPAC started service with data of books in Chinese and Korean in 2002, and those in Vietnamese and Mongolian were added respectively in March and June 2005. At present books in these six languages catalogued after 1986 and Chinese and Korean periodicals and newspapers are searchable.

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