Priority Objectives for FY2009 and their Evaluation

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Priority Objectives for FY2009 and their Evaluation

Priority Objectives are set every fiscal year for projects we put particular emphasis on to achieve the “Vision for the NDL’s 60th anniversary”. We set Evaluation Indicators (Two kinds, Progress Indicators and Achievement Indicators) for each Priority Objective to carry out valid evaluations. We conduct evaluations after the end of each fiscal year.

The following are considered in the evaluation for FY2009:

Progress

Evaluate and grade into three ranks according to the extent of progress of each project set to attain the priority objectives, compared with our plan of FY2009. The main criteria for evaluations are: have the Progress Indicators achieved the targets?

	Progress as planned,
	Less progress than planned,
	No progress

Achievement

Levels of service improvement for users were evaluated into the following four grades. Criteria for evaluation are: do the Achievement Indicators show services have become more used or acquired greater user satisfaction, as a result of promotion of a project?

	Achieved sufficiently
	Achieved to some extent
	Achieved little
	Achieved nothing
	Not yet ready to have any result

Evaluation results are as follows.

*[Evaluation details for all Priority Objectives] (Japanese text only) (PDF 366KB)

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Vision for the NDL’s 60th anniversary	Priority Objectives for FY2009		Evaluation
Vision for the NDL’s 60th anniversary	Priority Objectives for FY2009		Progress	Achievement
[1] Enhance our legislative support function by improving services for the National Diet	1-(1)	To strengthen the function as “Brains for the legislature.”
	1-(2)	To organize and provide legislative information useful for deliberations of the Diet as a “Comprehensive Information Center for Diet Members.”
[2] Make an exhaustive collection of results of intellectual activities in Japan to preserve them as common resources of the nation	2-(1)	To publicize the legal deposit system in order to raise the percentage of domestic publications acquired by the National Diet Library.
	2-(2)	To appropriately preserve collected materials and guarantee permanent access to them.
	2-(3)	To promote accumulating, preserving and providing digital information including Internet resources.
[3] Provide prompt and precise access or links to information needed by users	3-(1)	To streamline library work and improve convenience of our services and user satisfaction.
	3-(2)	To organize information resources inside and outside NDL to provide them effectively.
[4] Seek to provide equally good service to all users regardless of where they are	4-(1)	To promote digitization of materials to extend the range of original materials available on the Internet.
	4-(2)	To increase degree of user satisfaction of copying services via the Internet.
[5] Offer a variety of appealing services to society and increase NDL’s visibility	5	Through holding events and exhibitions, to gain more social recognition of NDL’s roles and activities.
[6] Promote closer cooperation with libraries of various kinds in Japan including public libraries	6	As well as supporting various libraries in Japan, to enhance coordination and cooperation with them.
[7] Try to share and exchange information by maintaining close relationships with overseas libraries	7	To deepen coordination and cooperation among national libraries in Asia and Oceania.

In FY 2009, we set the following projects based on the supplementary budget as a Priority Objective.

Vision for the NDL’s 60th anniversary	Priority Objectives for FY2009		Evaluation
Vision for the NDL’s 60th anniversary	Priority Objectives for FY2009		Progress	Achievement
(extra) To digitize our materials intensively based on the FY 2009 supplementary budget to strengthen the intellectual infrastructure of the Japanese people in an advanced information environment.

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