What's New
List of What's New
- May 18, 2012
On Jun 30 (Sat.), Lecture at the ILCL “What's happening with Children's Books in Africa?” will be held. (Japanese) - May 15, 2012
About 15,000 Japanese Doctoral Dissertations now available on the Internet. - May 14, 2012
NDL Website and ILCL Website will be unavailable because of system maintenance from 2:00 to 4:00, May. 15 (Japan Time). - May 9, 2012
Research report "The Great East Japan Earthquake and Libraries" (Japanese with English translation of some parts) (att. Press Release) - May 7, 2012
The Digital Library from the Meiji Era is now integrated to the National Diet Library Digitized Contents. - May 7, 2012
Addition to "Yonen Gaho magazine article search" of the Picture Book Gallery - April 27, 2012
List of indexed periodicals in Japanese Periodicals Index, UPDATE April 27 (Japanese) - April 24, 2012
Books on Japan Jan.- Mar. 2012, Jan.-Dec. 2011, UPDATE - April 20, 2012
"Standards for Digital Information" website started - April 19, 2012
On May 5 (Sat.) & 6 (Sun.), ILCL event "Special event for children on Children’s Day " will be held. (Japanese) - April 16, 2012
Digital Library from the Meiji Era will be integrated into the digital archives of the NDL - April 11, 2012
Research report "Policy Response to the Great East Japan Earthquake and Problems" (Japanese) published. - April 9, 2012
Digital images of official gazettes from the Meiji Era are now available on the Internet - April 2, 2012
Noritada Otaki appointed new Librarian of the National Diet Library - March 29, 2012
Research report "State Promotion of Research and Development" (Japanese) published. - March 27, 2012
On May. 12 (Sat.), Lecture at the ILCL "Children as readers―development and reading, development of reading" will be held. (Japanese) - March 23, 2012
"Foreign Legislation" No 251 features "Major disaster management" (Japanese) - March 23, 2012
NDL NEWSLETTER No.181, UPDATE - March 22, 2012
The 9th Kaleidoscope of Books "Parties under the Cherry Blossoms in Edo" now available (Japanese) - March 10, 2012
NDL Search and related services will be unavailable because of system maintenance from 20:00 to 23:00, Mar. 14 (Japan Time). - March 9, 2012
Building NDL Great East Japan Earthquake Archive website started - February 28, 2012
NDL-OPAC has recovered - February 23, 2012
National Diet Library website renewed. (Japanese) - February 14, 2012
From Feb. 21 (Tue.), ILCL exhibition "For healthy growth of children" will be held cosponsored by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.(Japanese) - February 8, 2012
On Mar. 7 (Wed.), lecture meeting "Issues and trends of evaluation for libraries" will be held. (Japanese) - February 7, 2012
NDL-OPAC will be unavailable because of system maintenance from 6:00, Feb. 8 to 8:00, Feb. 8 (Japan Time). - February 7, 2012
Oral history of politics in Japan: interview with Aiichiro Fujiyama now released - February 7, 2012
On Mar. 14 (Wed.), Symposium "Acquiring and preserving memories of 3.11" will be held. (Japanese) - January 25, 2012
Books on Japan Oct.- Dec. UPDATE - January 20, 2012
Result of on-site user surveys now available. - January 20, 2012
CDNLAO Newsletter No.72, UPDATE - January 18, 2012
Digital exhibition "Children's Books Going Overseas from Japan" (English version) now available. - January 13, 2012
Exhibition "Graphic Magazines in Meiji, Taisho and Showa Eras" will be held in the Kansai-kan from March 9 (Fri.), 2012. (Japanese) - January 13, 2012
On Feb. 15, Scripts Archives Symposium "In Search of Lost Scenarios and Scripts" will be held. (Japanese) - January 12, 2012
From Jan. 19 (Thur.), Exhibition "The 50th Anniversary of the Tokyo Main Library of the National Diet Library" will be held. (Japanese) - January 11, 2012
On Feb. 18 (Sat.), lecture meeting "Asking Mr. Shuntaro Tanikawa: poems are picture books, picture books are poems" will be held at the ILCL. (Japanese) - January 6, 2012
About 265,000 digitized materials added to the digital archives of the NDL - January 4, 2012
Historical Recordings Collection now available in public libraries - January 4, 2012
New Year Greetings: Building the Digital Archive of the Great East Japan Earthquake and Launching New Services - December 27, 2011
NDL NEWSLETTER No.180, UPDATE - December 22, 2011
Hiroyuki Taya appointed new Deputy Librarian - December 21, 2011
Electronic exhibition "Japanese Mathematics in the Edo Period" now available - December 15, 2011
Index Database to Japanese Laws, Regulations and Bills will be unavailable because of system maintenance from 9:00 to 13:00, Dec. 21 (Japan Time). - December 13, 2011
Database System for the Minutes of the Imperial Diet will be unavailable because of system maintenance from 18:00 to 21:00, Dec. 14 (Japan Time). - December 13, 2011
Bibliographic records of electronic journals published in Japan with ISSN assigned, UPDATE December 13 (Japanese). - December 12, 2011
Exhibition "Graphic Magazines in Meiji, Taisho and Showa Eras" will be held in the Tokyo Main Library from February 1 (Wed.), 2012. (Japanese) - December 6, 2011
Execution result of National Diet Library Electricity Saving Plan for summer. (Japanese) - December 6, 2011
From Dec. 27 (Tue.), New Year exhibition "dragons, dragons, dragons!" will be held in the ILCL. (Japanese) - December 2, 2011
Support for recovering library materials affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake - December 1, 2011
The Yearend and New Year Schedule for Visitors (Japanese)