In the first part of article, various topics on Indian publishing are explained: e-books versus printed books, multilingual publishing, government publishers versus private publishers, distribution network of books, and book retailing. The legal deposit system and the National Library, India as one of the legal deposit libraries in India are briefly overviewed. The latter half of article, with considering the use of information resources, points out some characteristics of the National Diet Library(NDL)'s collections of Indian materials. Especially on government publications, the ways to access them online are also given. Finally, this part introduces how the Asian Resources Division, Kansai-Kan of the NDL selects materials and makes the web content of the NDL's website.

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The Institute of Developing Economies (IDE) undertakes basic and comprehensive research on economic, political, and social issues in developing countries and regions. As part of the institution, the IDE library collects materials on our research fields, especially published in the local field and also written in the local language. This article introduces how to collect the Indian local materials based on our distinctive ways of resource acquisition. For instance, we purchase materials directly from local book sellers. We also exchange materials with local institutions and universities. In addition, we visit the fields and obtain materials there. In the later part, my own experience of visiting Delhi in India in 2007 for a business trip is also referred.

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How Indian academic libraries have attempted and succeeded, with the introduction of various consortia, in acquiring e-resources since 2000 has been discussed. The paper divides Indian market into different sectors such as engineering science technology institutions, university sector, laboratories of science and technology, college sector, with various consortia and describes the success and result of the success. Many of those consortia are supported by the ministries of government or the regional governments. Libraries and information professionals are required to play a proactive role in the promotion of usage of resources among the researchers.

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India for one of the BRICs of the economical development come into the limelight, but, from the aspect of patent information and the patent investigation, it is with the positioning that is more important by Patent Law Amendment in 2002 and 2005. It is reported that the number of applications of the Indian patent increases, and there are many applications electronics-related with the breakdown and, from various findings about the summary of the recent Indian patent, also understands that the application ratio from outside India occupies 80% from 70. About such an Indian patent, the coverage of several databases is shown and the databases of the Indian Patent Office are mainly reported about the notes at the time of a search and search method.

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Web sites of foreign countries have been developing over late years, and even more, there are some countries which offer a free useful data base in a patent search. It was difficult even to get patent information of foreign countries, but nowadays the Patent Office in many countries offer a service like a virtual library of Japan Patent Office (IPDL). Recently, intellectual properties of the developing countries also have been in spotlight. In this article, we would like to explain about a search data base of the Singaporean Patent Office, which is drawing more than any other of those countries. With a view of a search site of the Singaporean Patent Office, the data item, the retrieval method and the acquisition method of the patent status will be covered.

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Kinokuniya Company has been hosting its international round table every year since 2007 for administrators at university libraries by inviting notable librarians from overseas. In October 2011, Kinokuniya co-hosted its 5th seminar with OCLC on a larger scale for all those involved in library business. The seminar was held at Waseda University Okuma Auditorium with support from Waseda University Library. Lecturers were the following: Mr. Rush G. Miller, Director, University Library System at the University of Pittsburgh, Mr. Brian E.C. Schottlaender, the Audrey Geisel University Librarian, UC San Diego Libraries, and Mr. Jay Jordan, OCLC President and Chief Executive Officer. This report consists of Japanese summaries of their respective lectures.

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