After a brief introduction by the Director-General Yoichi Matsuno, Professor Shoichiro Hara discussed digital resources management at NIJL with a focus on the problems they had and the future perspectives for resource sharing with Z39.50.
Ms. Kayoko Toda made a demonstration of the Kokusho Kihon and the Kotenseki Sogo Mokuroku databases. With the former, it is now possible to search in romanization. Kotenseki Sogo Mokuroku (http://base1.nijl.ac.jp/~koten/ksearch.html). Database has become available to public since February 2004.
After a tour to Reading Rooms of the Library and of the Dept. of Historical Documents, a Q & A session was held with 17 NIJL professors and staffs.
[Prepared by Toshie Marra.]
