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Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive will suspend its service due to system maintenance for about 2 hours from 1:00pm, December 8 2021.
The service will be restored as soon as the maintenance work has been completed. 
Thank you for your understanding.

Twitter Moment : [Digital Archive] OpenAccessWeek2021 [Japanese]  https://twitter.com/i/events/1456041644650688515

Open Access Week is a global, community-driven week of action to open up access to research.
During the Open Access week 2021 (October 25-31), Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive provides some special contents.

・OA week special banner for Kyoto University Digital Archive website.

　Left: Yoshida-South Library, Kyoto University Geographica nova ex. Oriente gratiosissima, duabus tabulis specialissimis contenta, quarum una Mare Caspium, altera Kamtzadaliam seu Terram Jedso, curiosè exhibēt / Adapted.
　Right: Open Access Week 2021 Theme Graphics (SPARC)

　▼Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive

・Our staff will be tweeting about the latest information of digitization. Check out our twitter!

　▼京都大学附属図書館（@kumainlib）
　▼Twitter Moment : [Digital Archive] OpenAccessWeek2021 [Japanese]

・ALSO check oht the twitter of Kyoto University Research Information Repository KURENAI, which provides information about open access!

　▼KURENAI update!（@KURENAI_update）

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Library Planning Section, Library Planning Division, Main Library
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"Amabie, the Youkai of the Epidemic Dispersal" won the 52nd Seiun Award Free Category.
On behalf of Amabie, the Kyoto University Main Library, which holds the image of Amabie (“肥後国海中の怪”), received the Seiun Award certificate and supplementary prize.

• Image of Amabie

　※Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive
　※When Reusing The Image Of Amabie...

• 2021 52nd Seiun Award (Japanese only) 
• Winners' Comments (Japanese only) 

The Seiun Award certificate and a big red fan as the supplementary prize are exhibited at the Learning Commons on the 1st floor of the Main Library, along with the Amabie panel.

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Library Planning Section, Library Planning Division, Main Library
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KULINE RareBooks Search has been renewed.

What is KULINE RareBooks Search?

It is a part of Kyoto University Libraries Online Catalogue “KULINE.”

Using RareBooks Search, you can search for digitized rare materials (some materials which have not yet digitized are included).
In addition, you can browse a list of materials by holding library or collection (only Main Library).
In Advanced Search, you can narrow the search by specific criteria; manuscripts/printed book (*1), language (*2) and so on.

*1) Choose “写” (manuscript) or “刊” (printed book) in Additional Photography book field.
*2) Choose Language in Language code field.

What’s new?

Interface was entirely re-design, and “Pick-up” information was newly added.
In Pick-up, rare materials gathered by theme are introduced. Each title links to Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive.

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Library Planning Section, Library Planning Division, Main Library
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The Maintenance work was completed (2021/9/21 19:19) and the service has been restored.

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Service suspension will last until 8:00pm. (Update: September 21, 2021)
The service will be restored as soon as the maintenance work has been completed.

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Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive will suspend its service due to system maintenance from 8:30am to 6:00pm, September 21, 2021.
The service will be restored as soon as the maintenance work has been completed. 
Thank you for your understanding.

Library Network Service (E-Journal and Database Authentication System, KULINE etc.) will be suspended due to network maintenance on August 16 and 27, 2021.

■Date :
・Aug. 16 (Mon) 7pm. - 12am. (Once for approx. two hours and several times for approx. 10 minutes.)
・Aug. 27 (Fri) 6:30pm. - 10:00pm. (Several times for approx. 10 minutes)

■Services not available :
・E-Journal and Database Authentication System
・KULINE, MyKULINE
・Websites on "www.kyoto-u.ac.jp"
・Kyoto University Research Information Repository (KURENAI)
・KURENAI Deposit System
・Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive and Library websites

The service will be restored as soon as the maintenance work has been completed.

[KULINE Service Team, Kyoto University Library Network]

The Graduate School of Letters of Kyoto University and the Kyoto University Museum have been carrying out the restoration and digitization of an important cultural property Dainihonshi hensan kiroku held by the Graduate School of Letters since academic year 2017. Two hundred fifteen images of the restored volumes 11-14 are now available in Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive.

▼Important Cultural Property - Dainihonshi hensan kiroku (G.S. Letters)
 

Dainihonshi hensan kiroku (大日本史編纂記録) is a collection of more than 6,000 letters (copies) exchanged between Shokokan (彰考館; Mito Domain’s office for history compilation) in Mito (currently in Ibaraki Prefecture) and Edo (currently Tokyo) and their Kyoto office regarding the compilation of Dainihonshi (*1) by Tokugawa Mitsukuni (徳川光圀; 1628-1701). A total of 42,810 people and organizations and 15,159 historical records and literature works are mentioned in the letters and the content covers a wide range of aspects of the time, such as history, literature, Confucianism and Japanese classical literature, as well as the publishing culture during the Genroku Period, which makes this rare material a first-class historical record.

The rare material, before being restored, consisted of 248 volumes of about 10,000 sheets (one sheet folded in half to form a pouch makes two pages) in the form of fukuro-toji yotsume-toji (袋綴四つ目綴装) with sheets of papers folded at the fore edge and sewn at the back edge at four points. However, the rebinding and restoration done to the material during the Edo period were not appropriate to secure its long-term preservation; they also made it impossible to read the majority of the volumes without damaging them, because the text near the back edge was sewn inside the spine. Therefore, a restoration project was launched in academic year 2018, with a plan to restore first 20 volumes funded by the Sumitomo Foundation. The Graduate School of Letters has also set up Kyoto University Fund for the restoration of its library collection and the Kyoto University Museum acquired the university's special budget for this project in 2018.

Each volume of Dainihonshi hensan kiroku is to be released on the Internet through Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive upon the completion of restoration and digitization processes. As of June 25, 2021, the Digital Archive provides 1,663,322 images of 20,564 titles.

The Maintenance work was completed (2021/6/16 11:45) and the service has been restored.

Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive will suspend its service due to system maintenance for about 1 hour from 11:00am, June 16, 2021.
The service will be restored as soon as the maintenance work has been completed. 
Thank you for your understanding.

The communication to off-campus will will suspend its service due to the SINET5 maintenance for about 10 minutes between 04:30 and 06:00 on May 30th, 2021.

　■The temporary network suspension due to SINET maintenance(Kyoto DC)
　　http://www.iimc.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/whatsnew/maintenance/detail/210519056670.html

Library Network Service (KULINE, Electronic journal etc.) will be suspended during the period.
We are sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for your understanding.

[Library Network]

The Maintenance work was completed (2021/5/17 11:30) and the service has been restored.

Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive will suspend its service due to system maintenance for about 1 hour from 11:00am, May 17, 2021.
The service will be restored as soon as the maintenance work has been completed.
Thank you for your understanding.