Prange Digital Children’s Book Collection Launched
The UM Libraries Office of Digital Collections and Research and the Gordon W. Prange Collection are proud to announce the launch of The Prange Digital Children’s Book Collection.
The online collection provides access to children’s books published in Japan during the early post-World War II years, 1945-49. Currently, 200 children’s books are available.
The University of Maryland Libraries and the National Diet Library of Japan (NDL) are working collaboratively to preserve and provide access to the Prange Children’s Book Collection in digital format and on color microfilm. Eventually, 8,000 titles from the Gordon W. Prange Children’s Book Collection will be available. Digitization of those volumes is ongoing and new titles will be mounted on a rolling basis.
Due to copyright restrictions, access to the full contents of the books are limited to the University of Maryland College Park campus. However, access to book records and thumbnails of book covers are available to all.