Report from the Library of Congress
North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources
Meeting of January 7-8, 2005
Report from the Library of Congress
Hwa-Wei Lee
Chief, Asian Division
Thaddeus Ohta
Coordinator, Japanese Area Team
Since our last meeting on August 6-7, 2004 held at UCLA Libraries, some special events of the Japanese Team in the Asian Division have taken place:
1. Training Program - Japan Foundation and National Diet Library
Mr. Eiichi Ito, Reference Librarian of the Japanese Area Team, was selected to attend the Training Program sponsored by the Japan Foundation and the National Diet Library from November 22 to December 17, 2004 in Japan.
2. Collaborative Digitization Project of Japanese Rare Books with Nichibunken
Four titles of Nara Ehon (
Hōmyō Dōji, ほうみょう童子;
Shigure, しぐれ;
Shizuka, 静; and
Soga Monogatari, そが物がたり), or classic picture books are being digitized for Nichibunken. The scanning of one of the four rare books,
Shizuka, was completed and a DVD containing those images was delivered to Nichibunken. We expect that scanning of the other three books will be done in the next three months.
3. Microfilming Projects
The project to microfilming Nan’yōchō, 南洋庁 a collection of Japanese pre-war official documents from the South Sea Islands (Mandated Territory of Japan), was resumed. The filming project was started several years ago but was halted due to lack of funds. Microfilming job is done in-house because of the uniqueness of the collection.
Nichibei Bei Times, 日米タイムズ; one of a few bilingual Japanese American newspapers covering the period between September 13, 1978 and December 19, 1981 was microfilmed in five reels.
4. Symposium on Northeast China and Japan
Hwa-Wei Lee was invited by Professor Tetsuo Imura of the Niigata University to attend the International Symposium on Northeast China and Japan, 国際シンポジュウム「中国東北と日本－資料の現状と課題」 held at Niigata University on October 28-30, 2004. Lee presented a paper, entitled the "Historical Resources on Northeast China and Japan in the Library of Congress," 「米国議会図書館日本コレクション所蔵の関連資料について」 Ms. Naomi Kotake of Stanford University Libraries also presented a paper, 「アメリカの主要東アジア図書館の概況とスタンフォード大学図書館日本コレクションの関連資料について」. Other participants and presenters were from major libraries and research centers in Japan and China.
