The formation of a librarian consortium for handling East Asian Japanese materials

自2002年秋季至2003年春季SARS暴发以来，研究活动一直受到一些障碍。项目成员被要求在此期间不要旅行，因此我们无法在所有东亚地区进行实地研究。为准备恢复田野调查，我们编撰了王保平《中国藏日文善本目录》等4部位于中国的日本古典文献目录，并在此基础上建立了位于中国的6,790份个人文献名录。此外，2003年12月12-13日，我们还召开了题为“第四届日本境外文献数据库会议”的研究会议，要求各课题组了解每一项田野研究的“谁、何时、何地、什么”。此外，我们还要求演讲者讨论他们是在进行部分研究还是完整研究，以及在哪里展示了结果。…更具活力的演讲包括茨城大学的真柳教授和日本国立天文台的中村刚士教授在草药学方面令人难以置信的研究成果。此外，通过邀请中国东北三省图书馆的馆长参加会议，我们可以获得每个省的日本古典文献收藏的数据，还可以了解到谁来自日本到中国的这些图书馆进行研究，他们做了什么，他们做了什么，它是如何研究的，以及研究成果是如何呈现给每个图书馆的。此外，通过邀请三位中国图书馆馆长参加会议，我们能够促进他们与对其图书馆各种馆藏感兴趣的日本研究人员之间的人类交流，并在北方三省图书馆和日本国会图书馆之间建立新的关系。这不仅确认了日文材料完全公开的原则，而且建立了统一的编目形式和字符输入代码。此外，还讨论了处理东亚日文资料的图书管理员联盟的组建问题，并介绍了第一阶段研究的主要成果。较少

There have been a number of impediments to research activities since the SARS outbreak from the fall of 2002 through the spring of 2003. Project members were asked to refrain from traveling during this period, and therefore we were unable to carry out our field research in all East Asian areas. In preparation for the resumption of our field research, we have compiled 4 catalogs of classical Japanese documents located in China, including Wang Bao Ping's "Catalog of Japanese Rare Books in China," and from these we have created a list of 6790 individual documents located in China.In addition, on December 12-13,2003, we held a research conference entitled "The 4^<th> Conference on Databases of Japanese Documents Located Outside of Japan" wherein we requested each research group to find out the "Who, When, Where, and What" of each field study. In addition, we also asked presenters to discuss whether they were doing partial or complete studies as well as where the results had been presented. … More Particularly dynamic presentations included the incredible study results on herbalism by Professor Makoto Mayanagi(Ibaraki University) and those on astronomy by Professor Tsuyoshi Nakamura(National Astronomical Observatory of Japan).Further, by inviting the directors of three northeastern provincial libraries of China to the conference, we could obtain data about each province's holdings of classical Japanese documents as well as learn who from Japan had gone to those libraries in China to do research, when they did it, what it was about, how it was studied, and how the research results were presented to each library. Moreover, by inviting the three Chinese library directors to the conference we were able to promote human exchange between them and Japanese researchers interested in the various holdings of their libraries as well as forge new relationships between each of the three northern provincial libraries and the Japanese National Diet Library. This resulted in not only the confirmation of the principles of complete disclosure of Japanese language materials, but also the establishment of a unified cataloguing form and character input code. In addition, the formation of a librarian consortium for handling East Asian Japanese materials was discussed, and the main results of the first stages of research were presented. Less