[Library Network] Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive: New post on our website: How to make rare materials open access
It is one of Kyoto University Library Network's missions to securely preserve the rare book and manuscript collections Kyoto University holds and provide them for the use of researchers, in order to support academic research and contribute to society. As a means to share the information described in these rare materials more widely, Library Network has been digitizing them and making the data available on the internet.
Following are the steps of digitizing rare materials for public use on the Internet.
・Preliminary checking
・Restoration of damage
・Digital photo-taking
・Compilation of metadata
・Release on the Internet (Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive)
・Free reuse of digital images
The new website page introduces the above-mentioned steps with photographs. We hope this will attract your interest.
[Main Library]コロナ下の大学図書館サービス・日米情報共有会報告
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[Main Library] RefWorks cancellation
Kyoto University Library will cancel RefWorks when our current subscription ends March 31, 2021. Any citations not migrated out of RefWorks will be inaccessible after this date. Information about migrating your data from RefWorks to EndNoteBasic can be found on this guide.
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Transferring References from RefWorks
TransferringRefworksEndnote_en.pdf
(日本語) 【附属図書館】卒業生カードの申請受付を再開します（2021年3月15日～）
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[Library Network] Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive: 224 titles from the Main Library’s Daiso-bon collection newly released
Two hundred and twenty four titles from the Daiso-bon collection held by the Main Library have been newly digitized and released. As of March 11, 2021, Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive provides 1,663,107 images of 20,564 titles.
Daiso-bon is a collection of books formerly owned by Daiso (大惣), a book lender run by Sohachi Onoya (大野屋惣八) and his family in Nagoya from the middle of the Edo period to the middle of the Meiji period. Book lenders at the time usually kept books in high demand in their stock and sold the ones out of fashion away to buy new ones. Daiso, however, had a policy not to sell away books they had bought and increased their inventory until the end of the Edo period when they became the largest book lender in Japan. After the arrival of mass production of books in the Meiji period, many book lenders disappeared, Daiso being no exception. Around 1898, Daiso decided to close the business and sold its enormous inventory of 16,734 titles of books, most of which were acquired by the Imperial Library (current National Diet Library), Tokyo Imperial University, Kyoto Imperial University and the Higher Normal School (current University of Tsukuba). Daiso Collection owned by Kyoto University amounts to 3,667 titles, or 13,081 volumes.
Among the books released this time are “Shokunin-zukushi uta-awase (職人盡歌合 3巻)” and “Edo shokunin uta-awase (江戸職人歌合 2巻)”, which lively depict artisans during the Edo period, such as kasahari (傘張) or umbrella maker, ashida-zukuri (足駄作) or geta (wooden clog) maker, kawarayaki (瓦焼) or roofing tile maker, kasanui (笠縫) or hat maker, and yanefuki (屋根葺) or roofer.
Left: kasahari (傘張) or umbrella maker, ashida-zukuri (足駄作) in “Shokunin-zukushi uta-awase (職人盡歌合 3巻)”
Center: kawarayaki (瓦焼) or roofing tile maker, kasanui (笠縫) or hat maker in “Shokunin-zukushi uta-awase (職人盡歌合 3巻)”
Right: yanefuki (屋根葺) or roofer in “Edo shokunin uta-awase (江戸職人歌合 2巻)”
* The digitization of this collection is conducted under the “Project to Build an International Collaborative Research Network for Pre-modern Japanese Texts” by the National Institute of Japanese Literature in which Kyoto University Library participates.