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Forty-nine items from Kawai Collection digitized under the joint project by the Main Library and the Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University and RIKS, Korea University have been released. The digital archive provides 1,164,364 images of 13,575 titles as of July 30, 2019.

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 and six new images of the restored material are now available in Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive.

Three new materials including "portrait of Hakuseki Arai" and Korean classics are now available. Detailed description about the items are also added to more than 7,000 records. As of June 6, 2019, the Digital Archive provides 1,158,869 images of 13,525 titles.

Four illustrated plans regarding the accessions of the Emperors from "Gishiki-nobu", Nakai Collection held by Kyoto University Main Library have been digitized and become available in Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive. As of March 29, 2019, Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive has 1,157,922 images of 13,522 titles.

10 historical documents held by the Kyoto University Museum, including letters by Hideyoshi Toyotomi and Hidetada Tokugawa as well as the portrait of Mitsunaga Ogasawara, have been newly released.
As of March 27, 2019, Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive provides 1,157,908 images of 13,518 titles.

Zokyo Shoin Collection consists of Buddhist sutras and books collected from the archives of temples by a publisher in Kyoto, Zokyo Shoin and is categorized in four sections: “Zokyo Shoin-bon”, “Nichizo-bon (published)”, “Nichizo-bon (unpublished)” and “Shinshu-bon”. Among these, 595 items from “Nichizo-bon (unpublished)” have been newly digitized and released.
As of March 27, 2019, Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive provides 1,157,908 images of 13,518 titles.

The total of 121 titles - 33 titles held by the Main Library, including "Genji monogatari" (Saga-bon), and 88 titles held by the branch and departmental libraries are now newly released. As of March 1, 2019, Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive has 1,121,569 images of 12,913 titles.

The digital images newly released this time include 219 titles of "Korean Metal/Stone Rubbings Collection", 850 manuscripts from "Kawai Collection", 356 titles of "Modern Educational Wallcharts". Other than these, transcriptions and explanations are added to "Meiji Restoration Collection" and Nara Ehon Collection. As of January 29, 2018, 1,071,087 images of 12,793 titles are available in Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive.

Two hundred sixty-five titles of Tanimura Collection have been linked to NIJL's Collectors' Seal Database.

Digital images of the materials held by the libraries of the Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, publicized on the Internet are now freely reusable.