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font-family:Arial'>With apologies for cross-posting<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I am writing to introduce you to—or, I hope, to
reacquaint you with—the North American Coordinating Council on Japanese
Library Resources (the NCC), especially to its efforts in the area of
broadening North American access to Japanese digital resources. A variety of
rich Japanese online products are now available for licensing by libraries,
universities, and, in some cases, individual scholars. The resources range from
full-text coverage of major Japanese newspapers to journal indexes,
dictionaries, company information, and beyond. Our web page, <a
href="http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~ncc/drc/listofdatabases.html"
title="http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~ncc/drc/listofdatabases.html">http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~ncc/drc/listofdatabases.html</a>,
lists and describes these products and provides e-mail addresses for the agents
and vendors who license them for subscription. We invite you to peruse the list
and contact the agents/vendors of those that interest you. Most offer
limited-time trial subscriptions free of charge. When you contact the
agent/vendor, also ask about the availability of group subscriptions and
subscriptions for individual scholars. <br>
<br>
Dawn Lawson, Chair, NCC Digital Resources Committee, and<br>
East Asian Studies Librarian<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></span></font></st1:place><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Libraries <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>70 Washington
Square South</span></font></st1:address></st1:Street><br>
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>New York</span></font></st1:City><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>, <st1:State
w:st="on">NY</st1:State> <st1:PostalCode w:st="on">10012</st1:PostalCode></span></font></st1:place><br>
<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>(212)
998-2437<br>
<a href="dawn.lawson@nyu.edu"
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