The Royal institutions had carried out veterinary tasks late in the Goryeo dynasty (918~1392) reportedly.At that time, veterinarians in the institutions took charge of disease prevention and treatment for military horses."Quarantine Service for Cattle Export" (1909) and "Rinderpest Antiserum Manufacture Institute" (RAMI) (1911) that were the mother institutes of NVRQS, had been established as the first modern veterinary institutions in Korea.Many domestic and foreign books in the field of animal disease research and veterinary science had been kept in RAMI and this institute published many books relating to those fields.As a result, currently NVRQS posseses 3,347 volumes of 431 kinds which are 1,431 volumes of 215 kinds for Oriental books and 1,916 volumes of 216 kinds for the Western books collected from 1856 to 1945.Since 2006, to enhance the availability and preserve the contents of the archive recorded during the Japanese occupation era kept in NVRQS, we have initiated the "NVRQS Veterinary Historical Archive project.Because most of them were written in old style Japanese language, it was difficult to understand and use them.So throughout historical research and careful investigation, we could translate them into Korean version It was a total of 8 volumes (3,375 pages) of books.Particularly, they include the reports investigating the outbreaks of rinderpest in Northeast Asia, characterizing its etiological agent and summarizing the methods for producing sera for the purpose of disease prevention.In these reports the quantity of the production and efficacy test results for them are also included.Furthermore, the dissemination of the major bovine parasitic diseases (pulmonary distoma and blood filaria) and Newcastle disease, pullorum disease, fowl cholera, fowl pox vaccine development, swine pox during the period ware described in that book.Because they deliver a lot of facts or events in the history of veterinary services in those days (e.g.the disease control efforts for rinderpest, anthrax and foot-and-mouth disease) and they convey the regulations or organizational information for disease control, quarantine or disease prevention at that time, they would be very informative to the related people even in these days.The successful veterinary services play essential role for livestock industry and contribute importantly to the food safety.All the required knowledges and technologies in the field of veterinary services for them are developed on the basis of the present and past experiences, so the use and preservation of old books are so important.NVRQS published 1 00 year-history describing the future and the past of NVRQS to celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2009.The old data, reports, photographs and records collected during the publication ofl00 year-history had been listed and preserved.Afterwards, the separate storage room for the historical archive is going to be built.Moreover, we will continue to do additional translaton for the left and collect old veterinary books from outside or abroad to keep them from being lost and also make them preserved and useful.We expect that the people concerned in this fields can benefit greatly from this project of "NVRQS Veterinary Historical Archive" initiated from 2006 and there would be a continuous development in the field of agricultural and veterinary researches.