This database which records the bibliography of antique books in the format of metadata arranges and displays them by selected core bibliographic fields. This bibliographic database includes more than 110,000 items of Taiwan's major archives of antique books and more than 300,000 items of common antique books in China's National Library, in addition to more than 600 tested items by other 11 institutes in China, Hong Kong and Macau.

This library aims to encourage the sharing of cost and outcome of database building by enlarging the bibliographic base of rare books. It therefore built up Taiwan's Union Catalogue of Rare and Antique Books in 1998 based on the rare and antique books and string-bound collections in Taiwan's public archives.

Libraries in China, Hong Kong and Macau also provide certain amount of test data. This library also purchased the bibliographic data of antique books from China's national library and incorporated it into the Chinese Antique Book Bibliography Database which records now more than 610,000 bibliographic entries of antique books in total.

http://ccs.ncl.edu.tw/rbookhtml/rbookhtml/nclrbook.htm