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"The Age of Natural History", a digitized collection of rare materials on natural history held by the Graduate School of Science, Medical Library and the Main Library, has been released.
Natural History is the study of natural objects including animals, plants and minerals; collecting, recording and categorizing the information of their species and characteristics. ...

"Thai Newspaper Collection during World War II" held by CSEAS has been released.
This collection was digitized from three newspapers published in Thailand during World War II and now held by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University. ...

Transcription data has been added to 244 items such as Kawai Collection, Korean classics.

”Rare Collection on Islamic Studies”, a collection of images of rare materials held by the Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies (ASAFAS), Kyoto University has been released. Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive makes 921,230 images of 10,299 titles available to the public as of July 20, 2018.

In order to accelerate the digitization of our rare collections, Kyoto University Library Network has set up "Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive Fund".

Two titles from the holdings of the Graduate School of Law are now available in Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive, in which a total of 900,134 images of 10,257 titles are available as of June 7, 2018.

Kyoto University Library Network has made the digital images of all the materials of Fujikawa Collection, its rare collection in the field of medicine, open to the public in the digital archive.

1,924 newly digitized titles, including 1,647 titles from Fujikawa Collection, are now available in Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive, in which a total of 900,314 images of 10,362 titles are available as of April 26, 2018.

2,460 newly digitized titles during academic year 2017 - 1,114 titles from Fujikawa Collection, 1,328 titles from Kawai Collection and others - are now available in Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive, in which a total of 717,532 images of 8,438 titles are available as of March 30, 2018.

Among plans and other documents of Nakai Collection, 249 items regarding Nijo Castle were digitized and publicized in the digital archive under the joint project with Kyoto City in academic year 2017. The investigation of the materials to compile bibliographic data was conducted by Nijo Castle Office of Kyoto City and researchers of Faculty of Letters, Kyoto University and Kyoto University Museum, while Kyoto University Library created the digital images of the materials and publicized them on February 27, 2018.