Foreign collections of Japanese film books and journals

[Roger Macy]

As far as the UK is concerned, I think WorldCat gathers its information through Copac, or at least, through the same sources.  Copac doesn't list all Japanese language books in the UK because some libraries, such as the British Library, keep Japanese language books on a separate catalogue.  These are best searched through the Japan Union Catalogue,
  http://juc.lib.cam.ac.uk/spcat/spcat.cgi?country=eng&sercln=1
  Outside the UK, you may get a broader result from http://www.niicat.eu/
  The Japan Union catalogue is searchable in romaji, but there is no consistency amongst its members (nor, I think, within the BL) as to the romanisation of long vowels.  I was taught by the curator there to omit words with long vowels from the search string or, if necessary, search both ways for every possible long vowel.
   
  Virtually all academic libraries in the UK are members of COPAC.  Two exceptions worth noting are the BFI library and the Imperial War Museum library.  It isn't clear when accessing the BFI site that their journal holdings are not searchable on-line, but there is a pdf list on their site of their holdings. And the catalogues of their collections of films, stills, Film Festival catalogues are not integrated, either, although they have two versions of their own cross-referencing database which you can search at their library.  The IWM library doesn't have anything that would interest an American, as the 'Allied' in SCAP was entirely tatemae.  In fact, I've been copying the relevant 'Theater and Motion Pictures' history of SCAP, whilst in the US this week, as I couldn't find a copy in 'WorldCat' in Europe.
   
  There must be list-members who know a lot more than me about this (or who can correct me). I'd be interested to read an account of the inclusion of libraries in the rest of Europe.  There are clearly member libraries in a number of countries.  But the catalogue of the National Library of Russia does not appear to be digitised.
  Roger
   
   
  

Mark Nornes <amnornes at umich.edu> wrote:
  I have a good sense for what's in the North American libraries, but 
I'm wondering about the rest of the world. Are there substantial 
collections of Japanese film books and journals in other parts of the 
world? I'm not thinking about Japan itself, but rather Europe, Central 
and South America, Asia, Africa. I have passively scanned the lists of 
libraries in Worldcat when looking up a book, and I rarely see 
libraries listed outside of Japan and N. America, but have no idea if 
Worldcat is truly worldly.

Can anyone enlighten me?

How about collections of film prints?

Markus


       
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