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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.

KULINE RareBooks Search has been renewed. Interface was entirely re-design, and “Pick-up” information was newly added.

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 2018. Two hundred fifteen images of the restored volumes 11-14 are now available in Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive. As of June 25, 2021, the Digital Archive provides 1,663,322 images of 20,564 titles.

Images of 2,033 items from Fujikawa Collection held by Main Library were provided for the Database of Pre-Modern Japanese Works produced by the National Institute of Japanese Literature.

As a means to share information described in rare materials more widely, the Kyoto University Library Network has been digitizing them and making the data available on the internet. The new website page introduces how to make rare materials open access with photographs.

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.

The number of rare materials in Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive topped 20,000 titles and 1.6 million images. As of March 8, 2021, Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive provides 1,638,715 images of 20,340 titles.

Twenty titles of rare materials held by the Main Library, including restored “大般若波羅蜜多経”, have been newly digitized and released. As of March 8, 2021, Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive provides 1,638,715 images of 20,340 titles.

Seven hundred and seventy-one items have been newly released in the "Asia Depicted On Postcards" collection.

NDL Search provided by the National Diet Library shows direct links to Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive by getting metadata from Kyoto University’s OPAC, KULINE. New data has been added on March 1, 2021 and the thumbnails of rare materials are now available in NDL Search.