News on International Cooperation
This section summarizes news on international cooperation such as international conferences attended by National Diet Library staff, and National Diet Library's international exchange activities.
Please see the Web Archiving Project (WARP) for news in or before 2010.
News on International Cooperation (The most recent five posts are shown)
August 12-15, 2013
The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), Legislative Summit 2013 was held in Atlanta, U.S.A. Mr. Ken'ichi Terakura (Specialist, Interdisciplinary Research Service, Research and Legislative Reference Bureau) attended the conference.
June 3-7, 2013
ISO/TC46 Plenary Meeting was held in Paris, France. Mr. Naoto Kawase (Digital Information Services Division, Digital Information Department) attended the conference.
May 27-June 3, 2013
The 16th Mutual Visit Program between the National Library of Korea (NLK) and the NDL was held in the Republic of Korea. Headed by Mr. Tetsuro Kurahashi (Director, Book and Serials Division, Reader Services and Collections Department), four delegates visited the NLK and gave presentations and exchanged questions and answers relating to the themes "Acquisition, cataloging, and preservation of online materials" and "Acquisition, cataloging and user service for non-book materials." The report of this program is available in NDL Newsletter No. 190. (For more information on the Mutual Visit Program, see Exchange Activities with Foreign Libraries.)
April 22-26, 2013
The International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) General Assembly was held in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Mr. Tsutomu Shimura (Digital Library Division, Kansai-kan) attended the assembly and made a presentation titled “Current status of Web archiving of the National Diet Library, Japan” (Presentation file: PDF[346KB]).
March 26, 2013
The 21st Meeting of the Conference of Directors of National Libraries in Asia and Oceania (CDNLAO) was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, under the title of “National Library as an Agent of Transformation.” Ms. Naoko Sato (Library Counsellor, Acquisitions and Bibliography Department) and Ms. Yuko Kumakura (Branch Libraries and Cooperation Division, Administrative Department) were among the 31 delegates from 22 countries who attended the conference.
(For information on the CDNLAO, see Links (International library organizations related with the National Diet Library).)