2021 Volume 31 Issue 2 Pages 224-229
The progress of digitization and openness of regional and municipal materials, such as history books, states and public relations magazine published by municipalities in Kanagawa prefecture has been estimated based on survey of metadata and digital materials. The survey was carried out by using search services such as the National Diet Library Digital Collections (NDL Digital), the NDL Web Archiving Project (NDL WARP), the cross search of public libraries in Kanagawa prefecture, municipal homepages and OPAC of public libraries. A proposal on the progress of digitization and openness of local history materials has been made.