Retrospective input of data on French-language materials held by the Bibliotheque de la Maison franco-japonaise was completed in fiscal 1997. This was part of the retrospective input support project for Union Catalog Databases and was begun in fiscal 1995.

Maison franco-japonaise was founded in 1924 by Mr. Paul Claudel, the French Ambassador to Japan and Mr. Eiichi SHIBUSAWA. From the start it has served as a base for academic and cultural exchanges between Japan and France. In the spring of 1995, the facility moved from Ochanomizu to Ebisu. The second and third floors of the building house a library for specialists that is managed by the French government. Its collection includes a large number of French-language materials from before the world war II that cannot be found in many university libraries in Japan. At present, the library’s holdings consist of 45,000 books, 200 current journals and newspapers, microfilm, etc., the majority of them in French. Online-retrievals and CD-ROM retrievals are on service.

The recently completed retrospective input involved entering data on some 34,000 holdings of the Bibliotheque de la Maison franco-japonaise. This catalog data of Bibliotheque de la Maison franco-japonaise can be accessed either via NACSIS-CAT or Webcat (retrieval service for Union Catalog Databases on WWW).