National Diet Library

Makoto Nagao, the 14th Librarian welcomes you to the National Diet Library's website.

• Through knowledge we prosper

Information on the NDL, including its purpose, brief history, roles, organization, facilities and data materials.

• NDL Profile

• National Diet Library Law

• Vision for the NDL’s 60th anniversary

The newly set vision for the future direction of the NDL.

• Future Initiatives – to build a new knowledge base to generate creativity –

The NDL announces its Future Initiatives.

• Digital Library Medium Term Plan for 2004

The vision of the NDL's digital library projects.

• Activity Performance Evaluation

The evaluation reports to assess the progress in achieving NDL objectives.

• User Surveys

The results of annual user surveys.

You can read the Annual Reports that summarize the NDL activities of each fiscal year.(Japanese only)

• Annual Report of the National Diet Library

An outline of the NDL's Research and Legislative Reference Bureau.

• Services for the National Diet

Library services for the executive and judicial agencies.

• Services for the Executive & Judicial Agencies

• Legal Deposit System

This explains the legal deposit system.

• IFLA PAC Regional Centre for Asia

This page introduces the preservation activities of the NDL.

• Japanese National Centre for ISSN

An introduction to the ISSN and the ISSN Japan Center.

This page outlines NDL's international cooperation activities.

• International Cooperation

This page introduces the news of the NDL.

• News

An outline of the NDL's digital library projects.

• Electronic Library Projects
• Digital Library Medium Term Plan for 2004 Projects
• Ensuring long-term preservation and usability of digital information
• NDL Digital Archiving System