(31 January 2014) The National Diet Library (NDL) launched the Digitized Contents Transmission Service for Libraries in Japan on 21 January 2014. This service will allow users in Japan to browse digitized materials at libraries authorized by the NDL. Targeted materials include about 1.31 million out-of-print items digitized by the NDL, including books, periodicals, and…
(28 January 2014, Vatican City (AP) AP reports that The Vatican library and four Japanese historical institutes have agreed to inventory, catalogue and digitize 10,000 documents from a lost Japanese archive detailing the persecution of Christians in Japan in the 17th-19th centuries. Monsignor Cesare Pasini, head of the Vatican’s Apostolic Library, said the so-called Marega…
(15 January 2014) Open data has become one of the central topics of IT policy in Japan. Since the adoption of the e-government Open Data Strategy in July 2012, national and local governments have made great steps forward in this area and the government launched an open data portal in December 2013: “Data.go.jp”, in beta…
Mr. Noritada Otaki, Librarian, National Diet Library, Japan has outlined four priority issues for the NDL in 2014. First, to support legislative activities the NDL will provide prompt and reliable information on various national-policy targets in response to requests from Diet members Second will be the official launch in January 2014 of transmission services to…
(19 November 2013) Swinburne University of Technology Library has given us a reason to be in Melbourne in the coming weeks: the 17th Japanese Film Festival. The library blog draws our attention to Library Wars, a blockbuster in which “The Library Defence Force is a team of trained and armed Librarians who risk their lives…
The National Diet Library (NDL) of Japan has a basic policy for the digitization of its collections, recognizing that this activity will be increasingly important in the future. The policy covers Concept of the digitization of the material of the NDL; Scope of the material to be digitized; Selection of the material to be digitized;…
(25 September 2103) The Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies and the University of Maryland Libraries invite applications for two USD1,500 grants to support research in the library’s Gordon W. Prange Collection and East Asia Collection on topics related to the period of the Allied Occupation of Japan and its aftermath, 1945-1960. Holders…
(8 September 2013) The Asahi Shimbun has been looking at libraries in a feature called Checking Out Libraries http://ajw.asahi.com/category/globe/feature/library/ . The articles include how U.S. entrepreneurs in New York use public libraries in Manhattan; and a description of the National Diet Library of Japan.
(22 August 2013) The Research and Legislative Reference Bureau of Japan’s National Diet Library conducts cross-sectoral research on important political issues. Research Material “Japan-US Relations Reconsidered” is the result of the research conducted from 2012 to 2013 to analyze Japan-US relations in the context of the international situation in the Asia Pacific region which faces…
Japan’s National Diet Library has published online the National Diet Library Newsletter No. 189, June 2013 Selections from NDL Collection Haetori-de : the time Kodomo no Kuni reflects Events The Japan Specialist Workshop 2013 Symposium “Why support for overseas Japanese Studies now?” Events Lecture by Ms. Cornelia Diebel from the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, “Acquiring Digital Information…
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