The presentation of the digital edition of the Bury Bible and digital programme to the Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and the city Bury St Edmunds.

Supply digital programme and filming equipments the Exhibition "Digital Technology & Museum: Public seminars and exhibitions of information and equipment related to digital technology and the arts" (at the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo).

Report "The Digitization Technology of the HUMI Project" by Stefanie Nartschik (a research intern from Johann Gutenberg University, Mainz).

Digitization of 14 titles of Nara Ehon held in the Keio University Library.

Lecture: "Digital Bibliography and the IT revolution" (in Japanese) at the Open Campus, Hiyoshi, Keio University.

Lecture: "Digital Bibliography and the IT revolution" (in Japanese) at the Open Campus, Mita, Keio University.

Intellectual Property Rights Agreement with Corpus Christi College. Digitization of the Bury Bible (12c.) belonging to the Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge with 5"x 4" transparencies.

Digitization of a series of Japanese wood-block print, Ehon Edo Miyage.

Establishment of Consortium for the Digital Research Museum (DRM).

Digitization of 34 titles of Nara Ehon held in the Keio University Library.

Presentation: "The Digitization of the Gutenberg Bible and other Historic Books by the HUMI Project, Keio University" in Pacific Neighborhood Consortium.

Presentation: "Digitisation of the Gutenberg Bible, the HUMI Project with some results"(Mari Tomioka) and "John Harris the pen-facsimilist at work on Caxton"in the symposium "Incunabula and their Readers"(Toshiyuki Takamiya), London.

HUMI Project Open day in G-SEC, Mita, Keio University.

Supply Digital Programme "Keio Gutenberg Bible" and original Gutenberg Bible to the Tokyo Bible Exhibition.

Digitization of a series of Japanese wood-block prints, Tokaido Fukeizue.

Digitization of George Bigot's TOBAE.

"Digital Gutenberg" Exhibition in collaboration with the British Library at the workshop of the British Library.

Digitization of a printed Book of Hours (c. 1515, Paris).

Digitization of Chronicles of England (printed by Caxton).

Joint session with the British Library at the conference "SHARP 2000".

Korea-Japan International Symposium "Cultural Heritage in the Age of Digitalization", Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

Digitization of Taneyasu Matsumori's Ryouu Hakubutsu Zufu (Natural History of Ryouu Region) at Koukyuu Bunko, Sakata, Yamagata

Visit by members of International Association of Bibliophiles (AIB).

Keio University Library Rare Book Exhibition at Mita Campus, featuring Keio Gutenberg Bible (HUMI digitization technology was demonstrated).

Digital Archiving Round Table at Mita campus.

The third collective digitization of Western and Oriental Collections of the Keio University Library in cooperation with the Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan: "Maps of Edo, Kyoto and Yamato" and "A History of Western Scripts".

The third collective digitization of Western and Oriental Collections of the Keio University Library in cooperation with the Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan: "An Image Database of the Lives of Ordinary Japanese in the Edo Period as Illustrated in Woodblock Prints".

Cooperation in the production of a series of TV programs entitled "The Book through 5000 years" with BookTV, sponsored by Dainippon Printing Co. [The videotaped version was sold by Maruzen Co. in the summer of 1999.]

Visit by the executive members of the Cultural Foundation of the United Arab Emirates.

Visit by the delegates of the Asian-Pacific Digital Library Consortium.

Visit by the delegates of the World Technology Evaluation Center (WTEC).

The second collective digitization of Western and Oriental Collections of the Keio University Library in cooperation with the Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan: Conrad Gesner's "Thier Buch", Japanese Nara Ehon Collection, Japanese Woodblock Prints, etc.

Lecture: "E-text in the United States", Kendon L. Stubbs (Associate University Librarian, University of Virginia), David Seaman (Director, Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia), Sachiyo Noguchi (Eastern Asia Library, University of Pittsburgh).

The first collective digitization of Western and Oriental Collections of the Keio University Library in cooperation with the Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan: "The Keio Gutenberg Bible", Natural History Books, Japanese Woodblock Prints, etc.

Exhibition and Demonstration: "From Papyrus to the Internet: The World of Multimedia in 2003 and Treasures of the Keio University Library", Mitsukoshi Department Store, Nihonbashi.

Establishment of the Keio Consortium for a Digital Research Library, including 15 Japanese hi-tech companies.

Lecture: "Digitization of 'The Wife of Bath's Prologue' and the Future of Chaucerian Studies", Dr. Peter Robinson (De Montfort University).

Exhibition and Demonstration: "In Search of Gutenberg in the Digital Universe: Treasures of the Keio University Library", in the Old Library, Mita.

Symposium: "The Present and the Future of Incunabula Studies", Dr. Paul Needham (Sotheby's, NY), Dr. Lotte Hellinga (Secretary of the European Research Library Consortium), in the New Library, Mita.

Establishment of the HUMI Project