1The Development of NCC’s Access
Guide: Its Backdrop and Future
研究と資料を情報で結ぶ：
ＮＣＣアクセスガイドとその展開

2013 EAJRS Annual Conference
Thursday, September 19, 2013

Izumi Koide
Shibusawa Eiichi Memorial Foundation
koide@shibusawa.or.jp

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Major NCC Initiatives:• creating a freely circulating collection of over
42,000 items and promoting cooperative collection
development among North American libraries;• improving access to library and information
resources on Japan for students and faculty at
institutions of all sizes;• facilitating access to electronic materials developedon Japan by sharing information and providing aforum for discussion of issues related to digitalresources.

3Access Enhancing projects• MVS: Increase holdings in North America• GIF: Improve access to holdings in Japan throughILL• MLA Guide: Facilitate access to research resourcesin Japan

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NCC’s MLA Access Guide
NCC’s Online Guide to Research Access in Japan’s Major
Museums, Libraries, and Archives (MLAs) with Links totheir Key Websites(日本研究のためのMLAアクセスガイド)
or
MLA Access Guide

Launched in March 2012
http://guides.nccjapan.org/researchaccessCurrently it includes 100 institutions in Japan.
Third edition is under preparation.

5678Institutions

9Research, Raw Materials, andLibraries

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Research Libraries and Raw
Materials… our biggest failure has been in the area thatmost distinguishes research libraries. To a verylarge extent our statistics measure the products ofresearch, not the raw materials of research, theprimary resources which make research,
particularly in the humanities and the socialsciences, possible.
(David H. Stam, Syracuse University,
ARL meeting, October 22, 1992)

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Research Libraries and Raw
Materials
Raw materials have received less attention inlibraries.
Remedies for this problem in NA and UK:
Focusing on “hidden collections”
ARL (http://www.arl.org/focus-areas/research-collections/special-collections)
OCLC (http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/hiddencollections.html)
RLUK (http://www.rluk.ac.uk/content/rluk-hidden-collections-report)

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Research Libraries and Raw
Materials
Remedies for this problem in Japan:
NDL: “A National List of Special Collections”
全国特殊コレクションリスト (6,260 collections as of March 2013)(http://crd.ndl.go.jp/jp/library/collistall.html)

DIJ: Universitäre Sondersammlungen in Japan
日本の大学所蔵特殊文庫データベース (734 collections in 142 libraries as of 2004)(http://tksosa.dijtokyo.org/?lang=de)

NCC : MLA Guide (http://guides.nccjapan.org/researchaccess)(100 resource institutions)

Covering MLAs; navigation in English

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Research Process
research
topic
primarysourcesprecedingworks

documents,records, data,objects, etc.
Fieldwork

analysis

research
results(outcome)

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Research Process
research
topic
primarysourcesprecedingworks

analysis

research
results(outcome)
Libraries

documents,records, data,objects, etc.
Fieldwork

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Research Process
research
topic

research
topic
primarysourcesprecedingworks

analysis

research
results(outcome)
Libraries

documents,records, data,objects, etc.
Fieldwork

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Confusion over “raw” vs. “primary”
Terms
特殊コレクション

specialcollections
ナマ資料、零次資料

raw materials
一次資料
ichiji shiryo;
primary materials

Libraries in Japan

Academia

audio and/or visual materials(sound recordings, posters,photos, maps, etc.); nonprinted materials(documents, letters, etc.)= raw data/documents
books, periodicals, etc.
(publications; multiple copies)

raw materials contemporary to
the object of research (records,documents, letters, photos,artifacts, etc.)(usually single copies)

二次資料 niji shiryo;secondarymaterials
三次資料

sanji shiryo;

tertiary materials

tools to search primarymaterials (reference books,bibliographies, etc.）
tools to search secondary
materials (bibliographies ofbibliographies, etc.)books, articles, and/or reports
written based on raw materials(mostly published materials)

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Definition: Source• Source: a firsthand document or primaryreference work <extensive work in the sources –official records, manuscripts, letters, diaries, oldbooks, newspapers – W.G. Carleton> OED• Source: a work, etc., supplying information orevidence (esp. of an original or primarycharacter) as to some fact, event, or series ofthese. (Webster)• Source material: basic raw materials<requires … actual source materials in original
languages on cultures, customs, economy – H.H.
Clift> OED18

Metamorphosis of Published
Materials
old books & rare publications

becomeresearch materials & primary sources(archival materials with research value)
Museums + Libraries + Archives

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Language and Location

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Research Process in Japanese Studies inNorth America and Languages UsedJapanese
primarysources
precedingworksdocuments,records, data,objects, etc.
Fieldwork

analysis

researchresults(outcome)English21

Globalized research requires
primary source materials
regardless of their location.
Current MLA Guide : focused on resource
institution in Japan
Looking to the future: inclusion of institutions inNorth America, Europe, andelsewhere22

Thank you!