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Commentaries
The comments in this online gallery were written by the International Library of Children's Literature staff, with reference to writings by Prof. Teruo Jingu (Professor Emeritus, Aoyama Gakuin University), formally a guest researcher at the ILCL. Prof. Jingu has advised us on this exhibition from the planning stages. We would like to thank him for his cooperation.
Exhibit Materials
The Winnington-Ingram Collection of Children's Books is the property of the ILCL. The ownership of respective materials viewable on external websites to which links are created from this website is as indicated on those websites.
As a general rule, the links are created between books of the same edition. Please note, however, that some minor differences may exist between the websites in their exhibits due to conservation conditions.
Related Websites (links)
1. International Children's Digital Library (ICDL)
ICDL is an digital library project jointly inaugurated by the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory of the University of Maryland of the United States and the Internet Archive in 2002. The objective of this project is to make available outstanding children's books that are useful in promoting understanding of diverse cultures, societies, interests, lifestyles, etc. of peoples of the world. The project, operated by ICDL Foundation since 2006, had digitalized approximately 4,600 children's books in 61 languages by 2009 for online viewing via a 19-language interface search system.
2. Internet Archive
A non-profit organization founded in the United States in 1996 by Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive archives a variety of information available on the Internet (video, music, books, etc.) using a system called Wayback Machine and makes this collection available to the general public as an Open Library.
Bibliographical information
In principle, bibliographical information of this online gallery is based on the bibliographic data of the NDL.
Updates
April 23, 2013: Online exhibition released.
April 23, 2018: Usability and Web Accessibility adaptation based on the National Diet Library accessibility policy was completed.
Links
Links to this content are basically free. For linking, the banners below are available. However, for links to the individual pages of this exhibition, please be sure to clearly state that each page is part of the ILCL's online exhibition.
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Reproduction of the contents
If you wish to utilize digitized images of materials or any other contents in this exhibition (i.e., reprint, publish in either print or electronic media, broadcast, or exhibit them), please complete the request form below and send to us in advance. For reproduction of contents on the linked external websites, please contact the concerned website administrator.
When you send a reproduction request to us, general conditions for reproduction are as follows:
・It should be clearly specified that the item(s) is/are taken from the National Diet Library website.
・The item(s) may not be used for purposes other than the original intent described.
When you send a request to us, please notice the following.
・Please note that some requests may be refused or may not be accepted and that extra conditions may be added or a written document may be required.
・Depending on circumstances, it might take several days for us to respond.
Web Accessibility
The National Diet Library strives to make its website accessible to people of all capabilities and ensure that content is perceivable, operable, and understandable in accordance with the National Diet Library accessibility policy (Japanese) based on JIS X 8341-3:2016 "Guidelines for older persons and persons with disabilities-Information and communications equipment, software and services-Part 3: Web content". We hereby provide our website test results (Japanese).
Contact
Resources and Information Division, The International Library of Children's Literature, National Diet Library
12-49 Ueno Park, Taito-ku, Tokyo 110-0007 Japan
Tel : +81-3-3827-2053
E-mail : webinfo
