Bibliographic data of newspapers in the Gordon W. Prange Collection added to National Union Catalog of Newspapers

This is a translation of the article of the same title in the NDL Monthly Bulletin No. 536 (January 2006).

Bibliographic data of newspapers in the Gordon W. Prange Collection were added to the National Union Catalog of Newspapers (in Japanese) (http://sinbun.ndl.go.jp/) in November 2005. The addition of 16,962 bibliographic data and 17,678 holding information brought the total bibliographic data included in the Database to 37,032 and holding information to 53,760.

The Gordon W. Prange Collection is a comprehensive collection of publications issued in Japan during the early period of the Occupation by the Allied Powers. These publications were submitted to the GHQ/SCAP for censorship and are now owned by the University of Maryland (USA).  The University of Maryland and the NDL have been carrying out joint projects to microfilm these publications since 1992, and the Modern Japanese Political History Materials Room in the NDL holds the microfilms for reader service.

Searching the Union Catalog of Newspapers you can locate newspapers held by 1,300 institutions in Japan including the NDL, libraries, universities and newspaper publishers. Japanese newspapers and newspapers in other languages whose titles are written in Roman letters are searchable, and microforms and reduced-size editions as well as original papers are included. You can search by title, year of publication, place of publication, name and location of holding institution. 

While newspapers in the Gordon W. Prange Collection were formerly searchable only by a book-form catalog or OPAC terminals on the NDL premises, now you can search them on the Internet. We expect this addition to the catalog will increase the use of this valuable collection which covers Japanese publications in the Post-War period most of which are not owned by the NDL. 

Related articles: 

The NDL set out to collect books of the Gordon W. Prange Collection (No. 143, June 2005)
Microform materials of the Prange Collection (No. 130, April 2003)