(31 March 2016) As of March 31, 2016, Mr. Noritada Otaki, the Librarian of the National Diet Library, retired and as of April 1, 2016, Dr. Sawako Hanyu is the newly appointed Librarian of the National Diet Library. Dr. Hanyu served as Professor of Ochanomizu University from 1996, vice-president and Director of the University Library…
On March 30, 2016, the National Diet Library launched an official YouTube channel. Introductory videos (Japanese, English, Chinese and Korean versions) are now available and new items will follow. The National Diet Library YouTube official channel is here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHpDnv60i1LxOszXgBSE7DA
(10 March 2016) On March 1, the National Diet Library released music manuscripts and documents related to modern Japanese composers. Now, approximately 600 items in the collection of composer Hikaru HAYASHI (1931-2012) are available. Advance reservation is required to use music manuscripts. Materials already digitized are available only in digitized form to preserve the originals.…
(1 December 2015) The Web Archiving Project (WARP) of the National Diet Library (NDL) has been archiving websites in Japan since 2002. In October 2015, WARP archived its 10,000th website in 13 years. The number of archived files is 3.6 billion, comprising 630 terabytes of data as of the end of October 2015. WARP undertakes…
(21 July 2015) MIMA search was developed by Dr. Hideki Mima (Specially Appointed Associate Professor, School of Engineering, University of Tokyo) and his associates. Although search results are conventionally displayed in a list, MIMA search displays results as a map comprising lines and nodes, which enables users to easily visualize the relation between diverse data…
(1 May 2015) On March 24, the National Diet Library released The union catalog of modern Japanese music printed before 1945 in Research Navi. You can search musical scores printed in Japan before 1945 and owned by NDL and other libraries in Japan. Traditional Japanese scores are not included. This Database has been compiled by…
(28 April 2015) The National Diet Library, Japan, conducted a survey on the trend of information behavior and the awareness of public libraries, as a part of its library cooperation activities. This survey asked people, including those who do not usually use libraries, about their trends of information behavior, e.g. how much information they obtain…
(April 2015) The fourth meeting of the China-Japan-Korea Digital Library Initiative (CJKDLI) was held on 9 to 10 December 2014, in Beijing, China. The CJKDLI is a collaborative project between the National Library of China (NLC), the National Diet Library (NDL) and the National Library of Korea (NLK), aiming at integrated search and use of…
(20 April 2015) The National Diet Library has invited Mr. Roly Keating, Chief Executive of the British Library (BL), to give a lecture titled Living Knowledge: The British Library’s Future Vision on Tuesday, 2 June 2015, at the Auditorium of the Annex, Tokyo Main Library. The lecture will cover topics related to the British Library’s newly published…
(21 January 2015) On January 21, the NDL launched the English version of a special web site of the Historical Recordings Collection (Rekion). The user interface (e.g., advanced search interface, help page) of the database and a part of the Introductory Guides to Japanese Historical Recordings are available in English. * Search keywords must be…
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