Nara Prefecture Library and Information Center

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Nara Prefecture Library and Information Center
Exhibition space on the ground floor

The Library and Information Center of Nara Prefecture ( Japanese. 奈良 県 立 図 書 情報 館 , Nara Kenritsu Tosho Jōhōkan ) is an information institution opened in November 2005 in Nara, Japan . It was named Library of the Year in 2009.

The three-story building contains exhibition areas, open and closed magazines, multimedia rooms with audiovisual boxes, copier and printing facilities, seminar rooms equipped with computers, rooms for digitization, a language laboratory, conference room and a room for Braille and audio output.

The open magazines contain 150,000 books and around 1,500 journals. Extensive digitized collections are also available, including the "Gordon W. Prange Collection" with extensive materials from the occupation from 1945 to 1952.

history

The library was built in 1908 in Nara Park at a location south of today's prefectural authority and opened the following year. To commemorate the victory of Japan in the Russo-Japanese War (1904/05) it was named "Victory Memory Library of Nara Prefecture" ( 奈良 県 立 戦 捷 紀念 図 書館 , Nara kenritsu senshō kinen toshokan ). The timber framework architecture, a design by the prefectural engineer Hashimoto Uhē ( 橋本 卯 兵衛 ), shows not only western elements such as the window front , but also characteristic Japanese elements such as a hipped foot roof ( 入 母 屋 造 , irimoya-zukuri ) and a plover gable ( 千 鳥 破 風 , chidori hafu ).

In 1923 the original name was changed to "Nara Prefectural Library" ( 奈良 県 立 図 書館 , Nara Kenritsu Toshokan ). In 1968, operations continued in new buildings. The previous wooden structure was implemented in the area of ​​the Kōriyama Castle ( Yamatokōriyama ). Today it is protected as a prefecture cultural asset.

With the restructuring and expansion of the field of activity in 2005, another prefectural library in Kashihara ( 奈良 県 立 橿 原 図 書館 , Nara Kenritsu-Kashihara-Toshokan ) ceased operations.

Web links

Commons : Nara Prefectural Library and Information Center  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 34 ° 40 ′ 33.1 ″  N , 135 ° 48 ′ 19 ″  E