The NDL's Digitized Contents Transmission Service for Individuals to Launch
The National Diet Library, Japan, (the NDL) launched a Digitized Contents Transmission Service for Individuals.
The Service is available to official registered users of the NDL.
For detail:
[Library Network] Caution Regarding Predatory Journals (2022 update)
The Kyoto University Library Network has been working to alert and educate KU researchers about the issue of “predatory journals”. And we have published a new leaflet about this issue.
This leaflet contains the latest information on the increasingly complex methods in which predatory journals operate.
Please take a look at it.
"Beware of Predatory Journals"(Kyoto University Library Network, March. 2022.)
For more information, please visit the following URL:
https://www.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/content0/1387404?lang=en
2022.05.16 User Support Division, Main Library
[Main Library] Taking long time to get ILL materials (photocopy, book) during Apr. 29-May 5.
If you make ILL material request (photocopy, loan) between Apr.28 and May 5, we will process sequentially from May 6.
We are sorry that it takes much longer than the normal term.
[User Support Section, Kyoto University Library]
[Library Network] Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive: A reverse side of Chronicle of the Kamakura Period have been newly released
Additional images 46-56 are now available. (2022/4/25)
Kamakura Nendaiki (鎌倉年代記) is a chronicle of the Kamakura Period. It was formerly owned by the Mibu family and now in the possession of the Main Library.
The front side of the folded book is already available on Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive, and now the reverse side has been digitized and released.
On the front page, each vertical column corresponds to a year, with a summary of the major figures’ appointments and biographies.
The reverse side contains the events of the year corresponding to the front side, and also includes many records not founded in other historical documents.
LEFT Reverse side: Gentoku 2-3 (1330-1331)
RIGHT Front side: Around Gentoku 2 (1330)
As of April 25, 2022, Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive provides 1,872,223 images of 23,250 titles.
[Main Library] Rare Materials exhibited outside Kyoto University during AY2021
| Material | Institution | Exhibition | Period (Our materials may be exhibited during part of this period.) |
| 坂本龍馬書状（維新特別資料文庫） | The Sakamoto Ryoma Memorial Museum | 特別展「龍馬と北の大地」第1部 蝦夷地へのまなざし－龍馬と幕末の志士 | Oct. 5 - Dec. 3, 2021 |
| 癸巳西遊日記（谷村文庫） | Nezu Museum | Special Exhibition Commemorating Designation as an Important Cultural Property Suzuki Kiitsu's Mountain Streams in Summer and Autumn | Nov. 3 - Dec. 19, 2021 |
| 年中行事（重要文化財） | Saiku Historical Museum | 三重とこわか国体・三重とこわか大会記念特別展「斎宮平安五種競技－弓・馬・鞠・鷹・相撲－」 | Oct. 2 - Nov. 21, 2021 |
| 万葉集（尼崎本）巻16（重要文化財） 万葉集 巻1・9 近衞文庫 [曼朱院本]萬葉集 巻1・6・20 一般貴重書(和) | Osaka Museum of History | 特別展「難波(なにわ)をうたう－万葉集と考古学－」 | Oct. 2 - Dec. 5, 2021 |
| 今昔物語集（鈴鹿本）9冊中2冊（国宝）27・29巻 | Kyoto National Museum | Special Exhibition National Treasures of Kyoto: Preserving the Cultural Heritage of Japan's Ancient Capital | Jul. 24 - Sep. 12, 2021 |
| ［中院日記］ 中院文庫 | KARIYA city Museum of History | 企画展「歴史へのいざない―佐藤コレクションの魅力―」 | Apr. 24 - Jun. 6, 2021 |
Past exhibitions
▼Academic year 2020
▼Academic year 2019
▼Academic year 2018 (Japanese only)
▼Academic year 2017 (Japanese only)
▼Academic year 2016 (Japanese only)
▼Academic year 2015 (Japanese only)
▼Academic year 2014 (Japanese only)