福島大学食農学類における旧農文協図書館・近藤康男文庫の継承と活用に向けて

戦間・戦中・戦後・高度成長期を貫く"近藤農政学"の視座と福島県農村の震災復興への示唆

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This paper reports a case of transference of historical material. In particular, between Nobunkyo (the Rural Culture Association of Japan) Agricultural Library, which was founded in 1982 and closed in 2015, and the Faculty of Food and Agriculture of Fukushima University, which has just started in 2019, a special project of transferring all the books and historical material, totally amounting almost one hundred thousand, from the former to the latter, was launched in 2020, and is still ongoing. In this paper, I summarize the above process. My special focus is on Emeritus Professor Yasuo Kondo (at the University of Tokyo), who was the president of Nobunkyo Agricultural Library at the time of its foundation and provided for himself a lot of invaluable historical materials including his personal note, unpublished manuscripts, and even prewar Japanese Governmental documents, totally amounting 13 thousand units, to the Library. Also, he has long been the president, the librarian and the best user of the Library since its foundation. My conclusion is twofold: 1) Nobunkyo and Fukushima University are responsible for the completion of this big transference project and archiving of the important materials in the modern style for researchers' and the public utilization; 2) the Faculty of Food and Agriculture of Fukushima University must be the successor of not only Professor Kondo's documents but also his critical spirit and perspectives on agricultural economics and policies, that was built through his life, and we, researchers in Fukushima, will absolutely be able to learn a lot from this library and his perspectives in the face of many challenges of Fukushima's agricultural recovery from the disaster in 2011.