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2012/1/25 Oral history of politics in Japan: interview with Aiichiro Fujiyama now released
On January 25(Wed), the National Diet Library released "Oral history of politics in Japan: interview with Aiichiro Fujiyama" at the Modern Japanese Political History Materials Room in the Tokyo Main Library.
Mr. Aiichiro Fujiyama(1897-1985), originally from the financial world, served as foreign minister and was involved in revising the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty in 1960 and exerted himself to restore diplomatic relations between Japan and China. This Recording was made in November and December 1981.
From 1961 to 1987, a total of ten persons have been recorded by NDL as "Oral history of politics" for the purpose of gathering comment on the behind-the-scenes facts and stories that had been unrevealed before.
Until now, nine of the recordings have been released and this is the last of the ten.
2012/1/25 Digital exhibition "Children's Books Going Overseas from Japan" (English version) now available
On January 18 (Wed), The International Library of Children's Literature (ILCL) released the digital exhibition "Children's Books Going Overseas from Japan" (English version). This digital exhibition is based on the catalogue of the exhibition "Children's Books Going Overseas from Japan" which was held in 2010 to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the ILCL and the National Year of Reading.
The Japanese version of the digital exhibition was first released in 2010. Dealing with the subject of how translated Japanese children's books are published and spread in foreign countries, it attracted a high level of interest from overseas, which led to the production of this English version.
This exhibition introduces the countries and regions in which Japanese children's books have been translated, and what kind of changes have been made to illustrations and texts, etc., to fit their custom and culture, by displaying about 300 items, including translated Japanese children's books in over thirty countries and regions, and also their Japanese originals.
2012/1/6 About 265,000 digitized materials added to the digital archives of the NDL
On January 6, the National Diet Library started providing about 1,100 titles of newly-added digitized periodicals (about 265,000 volumes) within the NDL. In all, digitized contents provided inside the NDL are over 1.6 million items in total, including about 290,000 items available on the Internet. Titles and table of contents of the newly-added materials became also available in the digital archives of the NDL (Japanese) through the Internet.
- 2012/1/4 Historical Recordings Collection now available in public libraries
- 2012/1/4 New Year Greetings: Building the Digital Archive of the Great East Japan Earthquake and Launching New Services
- 2011/12/21 Electronic exhibition "Japanese Mathematics in the Edo Period" now available
- 2011/12/12 Hiroyuki Taya appointed new Deputy Librarian
- 2011/12/2 Support for recovering library materials affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake
- 2011/11/22 Library Fair & Forum 2011 ends
- 2011/11/1 NDL Search begins cooperation with J-GLOBAL of the Japan Science and Technology Agency
- 2011/10/18 About 340,000 digitized materials will be added to the digital archives of the NDL
- 2011/10/11 Library Fair & Forum 2011
- 2011/9/30 Unavailable services and period in October 2011
- 2011/9/16 Unavailable services and period in October 2011
- 2011/9/7 Cooperative agreement for the digital archive of the Great East Japan Earthquake between the NDL and the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University.
- 2011/8/23 Children's Day for Visiting Kasumigaseki held in the Library
- 2011/8/11 Printouts from digital data expanded in copying service by postal mail
- 2011/6/29 National Diet Library Electricity Saving Plan for summer
- 2011/6/27 NDL's digitized materials pass the 1 million mark
- 2011/6/1 More than 500,000 volumes have become available in the "Digital Library from the Meiji Era" (Japanese).
- 2011/5/31 Historical Recordings Collection now available
- 2011/5/18 Agreement with the Agency for Cultural Affairs
- 2011/4/27 The "Second Basic Plan for the International Library of Children's Literature" has been formulated.
- 2011/4/27 About 77,000 volumes have been added to the "Digital Library from the Meiji Era" to be seen only on the premises.
- 2011/4/25 Tokyo Main Library keeps the usual opening hours from 25 April
- 2011/4/25 The International Library of Children's Literature website renewed
- 2011/4/18 Unavailable services and period in April & May 2011
- 2011/4/11 Services for assisting the life of people affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake and reconstruction of disaster-stricken areas
- 2011/4/6 Research report "International Trends in Science & Technology Policy" published
- 2011/4/4 "Rare Books Image Database" and "Web Archiving Project (Online Publications)" were renewed in April.
- 2011/4/1 From April 1 (Fri.), Tokyo Main Library of the NDL will open from 9:30 to 17:00
- 2011/3/29 Research Material "China in the Global System"
- 2011/3/25 Electronic exhibition "Expositions, where the modern technology of the times was exhibited" now available
- 2011/3/23 From March 24 (Thu.) to 31 (Thu.), Tokyo Main Library of the NDL will open from 10:00 to 17:00.
- 2011/3/18 Unavailable services and period in April 2011
- 2011/3/17 Lecture meeting: Universal Access to All Knowledge is cancelled
- 2011/3/16 Some materials will be unavailable while undergoing mass digitization
- 2011/3/15 From March 17 (Thu.) to 23 (Wed.), Tokyo Main Library of the NDL will open from 10:00 to 17:00.
- 2011/3/14 On Mar. 15 (Tue.), Tokyo Main Library of the NDL will open from 11:00 to 17:00.
- 2011/2/25 Unavailable services and periods in February 2011
- 2011/2/14 Their Majesties the Emperor and Empress of Japan visit the National Diet Library
- 2011/2/1 Council on Organization of Materials on Science and Technology " Proposal for the basic policy on developments of science and technology information in the National Diet Library"
- 2011/1/31 The National Diet Library starts copying service by postal mail from "Digital Library from the Meiji Era"
- 2011/1/31 "Digital Library of Children's Literature" integrated into "Digital Library from the Meiji Era" (Japanese) and new volumes added
- 2011/1/4 New Year Greetings: Challenges we face in 2011
- 2010/12/9 Library Fair & Forum 2010 ends
- 2010/12/7 ILCL established the "Support plan for the promotion of children's reading activities 2010".
- 2010/11/29 New chapter added to the electronic exhibition "Modern Japan in archives"
- 2010/11/18 The Reference No. 718 features the 120th anniversary of the Japanese Diet
- 2010/11/4 "Japanese Periodicals Index", the number of articles exceeded 10 million
- 2010/11/4 Announcing Symposium "Enhancing the Culture of Reading and Books in the Digital Age - Copyright as a means to foster creativity and access - "
- 2010/10/27 New web service "Newly Acquired Books Information" now available (Japanese)
- 2010/10/27 Advertisement for the National Year of Reading won a prize in a competition.
- 2010/10/20 Library Fair & Forum 2010
- 2010/10/6 Unavailable services and period in October 2010
- 2010/9/22 The National Diet Library concluded the Digital Library Initiative Agreement with the National Library of China (NLC) and the National Library of Korea (NLK) on August 10, 2010.
- 2010/9/21 News related to the National Year of Reading: Symposium commemorating the National Year of Reading: What is Reading? (Japanese)
- 2010/9/17 Copyright clearance for digitized doctoral dissertations
- 2010/9/14 Unavailable services and period in September 2010
- 2010/9/10 ILCL exhibition "The Golden Age of the Picture Book: 1920s & 1930s - History's Message to Children"
- 2010/9/9 The NDL Database Forum(Japanese)
- 2010/8/25 Children’s Day for Visiting Kasumigaseki was held in the Library
- 2010/8/17 New web service "NDL Search (BETA)" now available
- 2010/8/16 ILCL exhibition "Barrier-free Picture Books from Around the World - IBBY Outstanding Books for Young People with Disabilities 2009"
- 2010/8/6 Lecture meeting commemorating the National Year of Reading: History and future of books and reading
- 2010/8/4 Digitization in collaboration with the Library of Congress
- 2010/7/28 Some materials will be unavailable while undergoing mass digitization
- 2010/7/27 About 390,000 volumes will be available in the “Digital Library from the Meiji Era”(Japanese)
- 2010/7/20 Demonstration experiment of full-text digitization in collaboration with publishers
- 2010/7/15 The 17th Tokyo International Book Fair has finished
- 2010/7/9 Digital Archive Portal(PORTA) and Resource Sharing System for the Humanities provided by the National Institutes for the Humanities start mutual cross searching.
- 2010/7/5 “Macbeth” -- Lecture and Reading: the Event Celebrating the National Year of Reading has finished
- 2010/7/5 Children's Day for Visiting Kasumigaseki
- 2010/6/30 Lecture: Semantic Web and libraries (Japanese)
- 2010/6/29 Digitization of the minutes of the Imperial Diet completed
- 2010/6/25 The 17th Tokyo International Book Fair
- 2010/6/23 Searching for copyright holders of books published in the Taisho and Showa period — Open Research for Author Information —
- 2010/6/15 "Foreign Legislation" No 244 features "Nuclear Safety of Major Countries" (Japanese)
- 2010/6/11 Bibliographic data of all domestic analog records are now available on NDL-OPAC
- 2010/6/11 Small exhibition in the Kansai-kan
- 2010/6/10 The National Diet Library offers Japanese bibliographic records(JAPAN/MARC) globally
- 2010/6/7 Report of the Legal Deposit System Council "Concept of the Acquisition System for Online Publications"
- 2010/6/4 Lecture meeting "Libraries and Reading in Germany and Europe"
- 2010/5/31 World Digital Library Charter
- 2010/5/26 The National Diet Library has made a poster commemorating the National Year of Reading
- 2010/5/26 "Macbeth" -- Lecture and Reading: the Event Celebrating the National Year of Reading (Japanese)
- 2010/5/14 Searching for copyright holders of books published in the Meiji period — Open Research for Author Information —
- 2010/5/13 About 810,000 bibliographic data of technical reports, UMI dissertations and overseas standards added to NDL-OPAC
- 2010/5/11 New service on the Web Archiving Project(Japanese)
- 2010/5/10 Index Database to Japanese Laws, Regulations and Bills (Japanese) improved
- 2010/5/7 Kaleidoscope of Books "A history of bestsellers - from the creators’ perspective" now available (Japanese)
- 2010/5/5 Addition to "Kodomo no Kuni magazine article search" of the Picture Book Gallery
- 2010/4/26 Unavailable services and periods
- 2010/4/26 Some materials will be unavailable while undergoing mass digitization
- 2010/4/23 NDL kids’ website opened (Japanese)
- 2010/4/14 "Enjoy Japanese language through a traditional performing art ; Rakugo for Children"
- 2010/4/7 Research Material "Toward Establishing a Sustainable Society"
- 2010/4/2 Commemorating the National Year of Reading, reading promotion activities of foreign countries introduced in our publication