Our Growing Collections
 

tions of American Civil War newspaper reporting
and historic articles from the TiTnes of London.
Finally, the Library has recendy received a full-text
version of the published proceedings of the
Nuremberg Tribtinal.

Religion and philosophy continue to be areas
of growth. Significant items recendy received or
expected in the near future include the Soncino
Talmud, the Pali canon of Buddhist scriptures, a
collection of Islamic law, and works of Nietzsche
and Spinoza.

The collection of the Electronic Text Service
has also grown in terms of expanded access to the
local and national libraiy community. Thanks to
an ongoing Tide II-C grant, it has proven possible
to list most of the major collections and many
records for individual tides uithin them on CLIO,
the Libraries' online catalog. (At present, analytic
online records are being produced for the impor¬
tant collection of classical Latin authors produced
by the Packard Humanities Institute.) In addition,
work is currentiy under way to make a nunibei' of
texts available to Columbia users over the camptis
network. The Oxford English Dictionary is now avail¬
able for searching and browsing, and a sig¬
nificant portion of the classics of political and
economic thought contained in the Intelex
Corporation's Past Masters collection should be
available very shordy. As this process becomes
more streamlined, an increasing proportion of
the ETS collections is expected to become avail¬
able in this way, joining the broader stream of
material planned for inclusion in Columbia's
Digital Library.
 

TiiK C. V. Starr Ea.st Asian Librar-i-

Meifi, lira Collection on Microfilm: The Maruzen
Publishing Company of Japan has entrusted the
C. V. Starr East Asian Library with 8,204 reels of
microfilm of the National Diet Library Collection
of Books Printed in the Meiji Era (Microfilm Set).
Starr's holdings, valued at over one million dollars
and comprising more than half the total set,
include all materials in the following categories:
philosophy; religion; history; political and foreign
affairs; society and its problems; economy and
industry; statistics; education; performing arts;
arts and crafts; literature; and general records,
index, journals, collections. The microfilm cas¬
settes and a dedicated Minolta 605Z Reader-
Printer are housed in the microform room on the
100 level of Starr Librar)'.

The National Diet Libraiy collection of Meiji
Era (1868-1912) books represents more than 70
percent of all material published in Japan during
the most important period of its modernization.
The entire microfilm set consists of 15,536 reels,
printed indices, and a CD-ROM catalog, which
can be searched in a variety of ways including
author, tide, publisher, key word, and date.

In 1994 Starr Libraiy received a donation of
approximately S20,000 from the Sumitomo
Marine and Fire Insurance Company, through the
Japan Foundation, lo acquire the CD-ROM index
to the microfilm set, the necessary hardware and
software to run it, and a printer These were
installed in the reference area oi' the reading
room on the 300 level.

Over the next several vears, Starr Libraiv hopes
to raise funds to acquire the remaining 7,322 reels
in the following categories to complete the set:
 

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