著者

山本 順一

出版者

桃山学院大学総合研究所

雑誌

人間文化研究 = Journal of Humanities Research,St.Andrew's University (ISSN:21889031)

巻号頁・発行日

no.10, pp.41-67, 2019-02-28

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So-called Japan Search Project that the author happened to look at in newspapersAugust in 2018 could be considered in this paper. The Japanese newspapershad written the national project guided by the Cabinet Office ofJapanese Government separate from worldwide digitalization and digital contentsmovement. This paper would introduce and discuss various digital libraryprograms and lots of related projects of the United States, essentiallyfocusing on the Library of Congress. The Library of Congress launched digitizationof possessed materials in the Billington Librarian period, includingAmerican Memory Project.On the other hand, Federal government libraries has organized, and managedFEDLINK that is one of the largest library network in the world.In recent years, the Library of Congress has collected born-digital materialas they are. And the Library has been wrestling with possessed andunpossessed materials digitization carried out by the third party with a littlemoney or without money. In addition to material digitization, the Library announces‘Recommended Formats Statement’ to the public in order to makecollected materials survive a long time.