(1 Apr 2024) As of March 31, 2024, Mr. YOSHINAGA Motonobu, the Director General of the National Diet Library retired and as of April 1, 2024, Ms. KURATA Keiko was newly appointed the Director General of the National Diet Library. Ms. Kurata served as Professor of Keio University from 2001 to 2024 as well as…
(19 Mar 2024) The Printing Function of the Digitized Contents Transmission Service for Libraries (hereafter referred to as “the Service”) will be opened to approved partner libraries overseas. We will accept applications for the Service from April 1, 2024. The staff of partner libraries subscribing to the Service will be able to provide patrons with…
(4 Jan 2024) With the December 31, 2023, retirement of Ms. KATAYAMA Nobuko, Mr. YAMAJI Yasushi has been named Deputy Director General of the National Diet Library, effective January 1, 2024. Since joining the National Diet Library in 1989, Mr. Yamaji has served as director general of the Acquisitions and Bibliography Department and, since February…
(8 Aug 2023) The NDL Image Bank showcases items from the National Diet Library’s substantial collection of visual materials, including ukiyo-e woodblock prints, books, magazines, and other forms of published media. And the English version is now available here. All the images in the NDL Image Bank are taken from digitized, public-domain content held…
(28 Jun 2023) As of June 28, 2023, the National Diet Library has added roughly 86,000 items to the National Diet Library Digital Collections, as detailed below. Collection Number of additional items Availability Newspapers 75,700 Only at the NDL Materials on the Allied Occupation of Japan 9,100 Primarily online, partially at the NDL Collections from Other Institutions 1,600…
(20 Jun 2023) NDL sponsored a webinar entitled “The Role of Libraries in Implementing Inclusive Information Society—Centered on the National Library for the Disabled”. The lecturer was Mr. Jang BoSeong from the National Library for the Disabled (NLD) of the Republic of Korea. The webinar consisted of a lecture followed by a Q&A session.…
(24 Aug 2022) The latest National Diet Library Newsletter has been released, with table of contents as below: Selections from NDL collections Browsing Joruri books with YOSHINAGA Motonobu, NDL Director General (Part Two) Map Collections in the National Diet Library (3) Jutei bankoku zenzu Budget NDL Budget for Fiscal Year 2022 News from…
(19 May 2022) With the enforcement of the Act Partially Amending Japan’s Copyright Act (Act No. 52 of 2021), the NDL is now able to transmit digitized versions of out-of-print or otherwise difficult-to-obtain materials to individuals via the Internet. In making this revision of the law, legislators were responding to advances in digitization and networking…
(2 Mar 2022) The National Diet Library has released the report of a research project on the response to COVID-19 by public libraries in Japan, which was conducted during fiscal 2021 in cooperation with the Japan Library Association. In the project, an online questionnaire survey was conducted for all public libraries in Japan, and…
(4 Jan 2022) With the December 31, 2021, retirement of Mr. TANAKA Hisanori, Ms. KATAYAMA Nobuko has been named Deputy Director General of the National Diet Library, effective January 1, 2022. Since joining the National Diet Library in 1986, Ms. Katayama has served as director general of the Kansai-kan of the National Diet Library, the…