Keep up to date with what’s happening in libraries in the region. If you have a conference to announce, please send its details to [email protected]. A searchable version of this list which includes conferences held in the past ten years is here. 2025 November 2025 iPRES 2025 (The 25th International Conference on Digital Preservation) New!…
(19 March 2013) The National Diet Library has started full-scale operation of the NDL Great East Japan Earthquake Archive “HINAGIKU”. “HINAGIKU” is the Searching Portal that enables integrated search and utilization of sound and videos, pictures, websites, etc., about the Great East Japan Earthquake. You can check searchable databases in the “List of the search…
On 7 March, a new collection, “Materials on the Allied Occupation of Japan”, was added to the NDL Digitized Contents. This collection contains 17,000 items from the Records of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey (USSBS), and 700 items from the Records of Far East Command, Supreme Commander Allied Powers, and United Nations Command,1945-1960. USSBS…
The National Diet Library (NDL) has started two-year conservation work on the “Yoshida-ke monjo,” which was designated as prefectural cultural property of Iwate and was damaged by the Great East Japan Earthquake tsunami. The “Yoshida-ke monjo” consists of the old documents which have been handed down in the Yoshida family, the hereditary village headman (Okimoiri)…
(21 February 2013) On 21 February approximately 23,000 books, which had previously been provided only inside the NDL, became available on the internet after copyright clearance. The materials include works of Kunio Yanagita and Eiji Yoshikawa, whose copyrights expired in January 2013. Newly added materials can be searched and read in the Digital Library from…
The article in the Asahi Shimbun, 29 January 2013, https://librarylearningspace.com/national-diet-library-joins-digital-wave-will-offer-books-online/ was followed by more news from the National Diet Library. Regarding the stance of the eBook distribution experiment of the Agency for Cultural Affairs In 2010, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC), the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), and…
On 25 January the National Diet Library (NDL) started the delivery of the Japanese National Bibliography via RSS. The Japanese National Bibliography consists of the standard bibliographic data of publications that are acquired and cataloged by the NDL. It is a list of the bibliographic records of all publications published in Japan and publications written…
(29 January 2013) The National Diet Library will soon offer some of Japan’s most famous epics and tales online from 1 February with help from Kinokuniya Co. and the Dai Nippon Printing Co. group. This is the first time that the library has scanned its books and allowed private companies to turn them into e-books…
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