Oya Soichi Bunko
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[edit] Oya Soichi
OYA Soichi was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1900. He showed early interest in social issues, and after dropping out of Tokyo University, he became involved in the Japan Fabian Society (a gradualist Socialist group). He was also active as a literary essayist and founded Mass Communication Juku (マスコミ塾, literally "Mass Communication Workshop"). His legacy includes the Oya Soichi Nonfiction Award, which recognizes the contributions of young jouralists, and the Oya Soichi Bunko, described below. Most of his literary works are included in Oya Soichi Zenshu (大宅壮一全集; literally, the "Oya Soichi Collection") published from Ofu sha (蒼洋社).
[edit] Oya Soichi Bunko
Oya Soichi Bunkois a library that holds the popular magazines and books collected by Oya Soichi. Oya Soichi played an important role as a social critic for 50 years, during which time he published translations, anthologies, and books and also accumulated over 200,000 magazines, journals, and books. After he died in 1970, Oya Soichi Bunko was founded in Hachimanyama, Tokyo and later in Ogose, Saitama in an effort to catalog those books written by Oya Soichi as well as his own significant body of work.
[edit] Collection
As of March 2005, Oya Soichi Bunko holds over 640,000 volumes of 10,000 kinds of magazines and 70,000 books.
Magazines, ranging from the Meiji period to the present, are located in the Setagaya Main Library. The catalog mainly comprises popular magazines, including apparel, cosmetics, gossip, lifestyle, cooking, health, hobbies, sports, arts, music, literature, entertainment, and travel. A few additional collections cover politics, economics, science, history, education, and criticism. Most of the magazines are contributions from publishing companies and individuals.
70,000 books are stored in the Ogose Branch Library in Saitama prefecture. Oya’s book collection does not consist entirely of academic works. Instead, he preferred to collect books that were minor, trivial and uninteresting to some people because he considered those books great ingredients for his articles.
[edit] Index
The Oya collection is divided between two indexes: one of persons and the other of topics. There are currently over 120,000 persons and 7,000 topics represented in the collection. The web page, the Index Ranking, gives the users not only a hint of various indexes but also a brief overview of the Japanese social trends for the past few decades.
[edit] Users Information
As of 2005, ￥500 would allow users to browse a maximum of 10 collections. In order to browse over 10 collections, an additional ￥300 is required. Users can browse up to 50 collections per day. As a corporate or individual member, 100 collections can be browsed per day. However, browsing is limited to 10 collections per day in the Ogose Branch Library.
Users can search the articles in four different ways. The main source is the Magazine Article Catalog that covers the Meiji period to the present. It is published every year from Books Kinokuniya and can be found in major Japanese libraries. Second, the Oya Soichi Library Magazine Index System enables users to find over 2,700,000 articles from 1988 to the present. The system is categorized into five different indexes: persons, subjects, keywords, magazines, and writers. In addition, the Magazine Article Catalog CD-ROM has been published every year since 1997. The CD-ROM ranges from 1992 to the present; it is searcheable by topic, keyword, issue date, and genre of magazines. Lastly, the Web Oya Bunko is the newest search engine exclusively for educational institutions. It covers over 2,000,000 articles from 1988 to the present, with subscriptions costing a minimum of ￥12,600 per annum.
Users are not permitted in the storeroom in the Oya Soichi Bunko Libraries; instead, librarians retrieve articles upon request. The articles are non-circulating but can be copied for ￥100 per page. The monochrome articles can also be sent by mail for ￥600 or colored articles for ￥700 per page, excluding shipping charges. Members of Oya Soichi Bunko can also request that articles be faxed at a cost of ￥600 per page plus a service charge.
[edit] Locations and Hours
Setagaya Main Library:
3-10-20 Hachimanyama Setagaya, Tokyo, 156-0056 JAPAN TEL +81 3 3303 2000
Accessible by foot from Hachimanyama Station on the Keio Line
Open Monday to Saturday (except Sundays, holidays, year-end and new-year) from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m..
The circulation desk is open until 5:15 p.m. and the copying desk until 5:30.
Ogose Branch Library:
28-45-2 Ueno Ogose-cho Irima-gun, Saitama prefecture, 350-0415 JAPAN TEL +81 49 277 1151
Accessible by 20 minutes walk from Ogose Station on the Tobu Ogose Subway Line
Open Monday to Friday (except Saturday, Sunday, holidays, year-end, new-year, and summer).
