The Ming Literature Database contains 17 precious anthologies of Ming writers and poets in the National Central Library; all of them are displayed in colourful electronic images.

While users can find part of the database contents on the internet, on the Library's intranet they can view all of the electronic contents and search the database by book title, author, edition, chapter, preface and postscript author, etc.

The rare and antique book collection of the National Central Library has the reputation of being one of the important resources for academic research among sinologists around the world because of its holding of more than 12,000 series of rare and antique books including publications, hand-written copies and rare drafts of the Sung, Yuan, Ming, and Chin dynasties across the fields of classics, history, philosophy and belles-lettres.

While the collection of rare and antique books were transferred on microfilm at the readers’ convenience, in this information age all the contents of the book collection will be digitalised by photography, scanning and other computer technologies. Given that all the collection of books is now available on microfilm, we will digitalise only selected books in a series of special issues at the early stage of this project. This strategy is chosen because of its flexibility.

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