(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…
(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…
(Apr 2021) From National Diet Library Newsletter: With the COVID-19 pandemic, remote library services are becoming more and more important. In this article, we would like to introduce the NDL’s online services and examples of their use: Digital Exhibitions of the National Diet Library The digital exhibitions introduce unique collections of the NDL with…
(12 September 2017) The number of online publications archived by the National Diet Library (NDL) reached 1,000,000. The NDL will continue to archive online publications so that anyone can use them anytime. The announcement is here.
(17 March 2015) Several thousand items have been added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections. A summary of them is here including naterials on the allied occupation of Japan, the Prange Collection, and rare books and manuscripts.
(1 October 2014) The National Diet Library (NDL) has acquired electronic doctoral dissertations for which degrees were conferred in or after April 2013. On 1 October 2014, the NDL started making them available. You can view these electronic doctoral dissertations from Japanese institutions on the National Diet Library Digital Collections （Doctoral Dissertations） within the facilities…
(28 March 2014) Approximately 47,000 periodicals were added to the NDL Digital Collections. The full text of these materials are onsite access only but their bibliographic information and tables of content are available on the internet. The news is here.