Librarians’ Activities in the Wake of COVID-19:
A Case of IDE Library, Japan
LIBRARY, Institute of Developing Economies (IDE)-JETRO
アジア経済研究所図書館

アジ研図書館は千葉県の海浜幕張にあります。全ての⼈に開かれた図書館です。
現在は利⽤予約制とし、館内の⼈数を調整しながら開館を続けています。
IDE library is located in Kaihin-Makuhari in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. The library is
open to the public. Currently, we ask library users to reserve their visit in advance inorder to avoid overcrowding in view of the ongoing concern of COVID-19.

開発途上地域の政治・経済に関する学術⽂献、統計資料、新聞、雑誌を所蔵する専⾨図書館。 4階建てに約73万冊を収蔵しています。
IDE Library is a special library that owns academic literature, statistical materials,
newspapers, and journals. Its focus areas are on the politics and the economies of thedeveloping regions. The library stores approximately 730,000 books in a 4-storied building.

LIBRARY’S COLLECTION BY REGIONS
Others13%
Latin
America
10%

East Asia
33%

Africa7%
Middle Eastand NorthAfrica
10%South Asia
11%

Southeast Asia
16%

アジアだけでなく、中東・北アフリカ、アフリカ、ラテンアメリカの資料を所蔵。
Library materials are related to not only Asian affairs but also those of the Middle East andNorth Africa (MENA), Africa, and Latin America. Southeast Asian materials account for 16%of its total possession.

コロナ状況におけるライブラリアンの取り組みを紹介します。
We introduce you some of the efforts of IDE
librarians in the wake of COVID-19.

Acquisitions
Information
Dissemination「資料収集」と「情報発信」に焦点を当てます。
Focusing on “Acquisitions” and “Information Dissemination”.

Acquisitions

Acquisitions
Population Census, Brunei Darussalam

Rasmei Kampuchea Daily
Burmese Encyclopedia

アジ研図書館は、収集対象国の現地で出版された資料を重視します。
IDE Library attaches great importance to locally published materials.

Acquisitions

Xanana Gusmão Reading Room
Timor-Leste in 2015

Before COVID-19

Thailand’s National Book Fair in 2019

出張により現地出版の統計や学術書を⼊⼿してきました。

With statisticians of Dept. of Economic
Planning & Statistics,
Brunei Darussalam in 2015

Before the pandemic, we have collected statistical materials, academic books and othermaterials in vernacular languages during the “acquisition trip”, visiting the regions and thecountries concerned by IDE staff.

Acquisitions

After COVID-19

BOOKS
Government
publications

OVERSEAS
REMITTANCE
Statisticalbooks
Academicbooks

現地書店や統計局とのつながりがますます重要に。

Although it is not possible for us to make such acquisition trips now, we have not given up our efforts ofcollecting materials from overseas. By keeping close contacts with local bookstores and statistical offices, wehave successfully acquired a number of valuable local materials. In fact, this has been our main way ofmaterials acquisition from overseas, and has even become more important in the face of the difficulties
caused by COVID-19 outbreak.

Acquisitions

https://opac.jetro.go.jp/

当館蔵書はOPACで検索ください。東南アジア諸語の資料は、原綴りやALA-LCローマ字翻字形でも検索可能です。
Users can search our collection on OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue). Materials in Southeast Asian
languages can also be searched by original spelling or ALA-LC Romanization.

Click!

InformationDissemination

Information Dissemination

Librarian Column (only in Japanese)
informs you of the books and materials
that the librarians recommend, andoccasionally introduces you behind-thescenes of our daily operation etc.
https://www.ide.go.jp/Japanese/Library/Column

2020年7⽉よりウェブサイト上で「ライブラリアン・コラム」を始めました。
We started the Librarian Column on our website in July, 2020.

Information Dissemination

ウェブ資料展「途上国と感染症」(2020年7〜9⽉)では、11本のコラムを掲載。
In the special series of "Developing Countries and Infectious Diseases" (July-Sept. 2020), we
have written 11 columns in the Librarian Column, introducing books and articles focusing on
the infectious diseases in the developing regions in the past and today.

Information Dissemination“People in the Forefront of the Pandemic:
History of Filipino Migrants and Nursing”
by Eri Yamashita“Infectious Diseases in the History ofIndonesia”
by Minami Tosa

“When the Body and Politics are Connected:
Reading Germs, Body, and Medicalizing State
by Davisakd Puaksom”
by Marie Kobayashi

3名の東南アジア専⾨ライブラリアンも執筆しました。
Three librarians responsible for the Southeast Asian collection have contributed thecolumns on the Philippines, Indonesia, and Thailand each.

LIBRARY “Mini-TOUR”
Letʻs take a look at the IDE library︕

1階

新聞架

1st Floor: Newspapers

3階

統計資料

3rd Floor: Statistical Materials