| May 2007 |
Exhibition: "Diseases and Cures as Seen in Old Medical Books". |
| 2007 |
About 200 European books on spas and thermal bath cures (17th-19th century) are added to the collection. |
| May 2003 |
Exhibition: "Valuable Old Books from the Medical Library". |
| 2002 |
An Internet database with more than 9000 high quality pictures from old medical books is established (Grant-in-aid JSPS, FY 2002). |
| 2002 |
About 250 books on anatomy from late Edo- and early Meiji-era are added to the collection. |
| May 2002 |
Exhibition of valuable books in the Medical Library: "Body in old Medical Books 2". |
| May 2001 |
Exhibition of valuable books in the Medical Library: "Body in old Medical Books 1". |
| 2001 |
Most Western titles are registered. Bibliographical data of single titles are accessable by the Medical Library's OPAC
(http://www.lib.kyushu-u.ac.jp/opac/index-1.html)
as well as the WEBCAT of NACSIS
(http://webcat.nii.ac.jp/).
A pdf-catalogue is added on the collections website.
Beginning of the registration of Eastern titles. |
| 1998-2000 |
With financial support from university president Sugioka a large scale investigation is conducted. More than 1200 old books (16th -19th c.) are added to the Collection of Valuable Books in the Medical Library. |
| 1998 |
The discovery of some valuable medical books in old library stocks outside the medical campus stimulates a special exhibition in the Central Library. |
| 1987 |
Purchase of 164 valuable Western books to beef up the collection. |
| 1982 |
Books from various medical departments form the stock of the Collection of old Medical Books in the newly built Medical Library. |