What's New - Year 2008
List of What's New of 2008
- December 22, 2008
On Jan. 21, a lecture meeting by the National Librarian of Sweden will be held. - December 22, 2008
Digital archive of the Kyushu University and hon.jp added to search targets of "PORTA" - December 19, 2008
Some services will be unavailable because of system maintenance from 9:00 to 18:00, Dec. 26 (Japan Time). - December 17, 2008
RSS feeds of Japanese Periodicals Index (Japanese) - December 9, 2008
NDL National Union Catalog Network System will be unavailable because of system maintenance from 9:00 to 19:00, Dec. 15 (Japan Time). - December 5, 2008
NDL NEWSLETTER No.163, UPDATE - December 2, 2008
"2008 Nobel Prizes Special page" added (Japanese) - December 2, 2008
XML output and OAI-PMH for metadata providing added to "PORTA" - December 1, 2008
The Yearend and New Year Schedule (Japanese) - November 27, 2008
New addition to the Digital Library of Children's Literature (Japanese) - November 27, 2008
The online gallery "Rare books of the National Diet Library -The 60th anniversary-" is now available in English. - November 25, 2008
NDL Library Science Series No.40 "Research Report on the USA Libraries 2007" is now available. (Japanese) - November 25, 2008
Kobe University Library Newspaper Article added to search targets of "PORTA" - November 19, 2008
Annual report FY 2007 is now available. (Japanese) - November 17, 2008
NDL provides "IMAGINE Book Search" with data of some Electronic Library services. - November 5, 2008
On Nov. 19, symposium commemorating 60th anniversary will be held. (Japanese) - November 5, 2008
Dr. Makoto NAGAO designated as Person of Cultural Merit - November 4, 2008
The Rare Books Image Database will be unavailable because of system maintenance from 10:00 to 18:00, Nov. 19 (Japan Time). - November 4, 2008
Digital Library of Ibaraki Prefectural Library and Electronic exhibitions of the NDL added to search targets of "PORTA" - October 30, 2008
Commemorative Exhibition "Rare books of the National Diet Library" will be held in the Kansai-kan. (Japanese) - October 28, 2008
Books on Japan Jul.- Sep. 2008, UPDATE - October 27, 2008
Expanded search target of "PORTA" - October 22, 2008
[Spotlight] Full-text Database System of the Minutes of the Diet - October 22, 2008
Lecture by Mr. Koichi Fujimoto on Nov. 22th (Sat) "Transition of Japanese books :from scrolls to booklets"(Japanese) - October 15, 2008
The online gallery "Rare books of the National Diet Library -The 60th anniversary-" has been renewed. (Japanese) - October 14, 2008
The web site of ILCL will be unavailable because of power outage from 18:00 on Nov. 2 to 9:30 on Nov. 4 (Japan Time). - October 10, 2008
Library Fair & Forum 2008 - October 8, 2008
"Webcat Plus" provided by National Institute of Informatics (NII) linked with the "Digital Library from the Meiji Era" (Japanese) - September 30, 2008
Research instruction sessions for Visitors (Japanese) - September 30, 2008
Some services are unavailable from Oct. 10 to Oct. 16 (Japan Time) because of power outage. - September 26, 2008
IFLA PAC Regional Centre for Asia, UPDATE. - September 25, 2008
Lecture by Mr.Takashi Atoda on Oct. 25th (Sat) "Japanese culture and Japanese language" (Japanese) - September 22, 2008
On Oct. 21, Conference of Directors of National Libraries in Asia and Oceania (CDNLAO) Open Seminar will be held. - September 17, 2008
Commemorative Exhibition "Rare books of the National Diet Library - The 60th anniversary" will be held in Kansai-kan and Tokyo Main Library. - September 12, 2008
Children's Day for Visiting Kasumigaseki in the Library - September 9, 2008
"World of Illustrations for Children: Picture Magazines and Their Artists" will be held at ILCL from September 20. - September 3, 2008
Call for your participation in Website User Surveys (until September 30) - September 1, 2008
NDL NEWSLETTER No.162, UPDATE - August 28, 2008
100,000 titles available in "Digital Library from the Meiji Era"(Japanese) - August 21, 2008
Index Database to Japanese Laws, Regulations (Early Meiji Era edition) will be unavailable because of system maintenance from 10:00 to 13:00, Aug. 27 (Japan Time). - August 8, 2008
Some services will temporarily be unavailable because of system maintenance from 3:00 to 4:00, Aug. 21 (Japan time). - August 8, 2008
The priority objectives and service standards for FY2008 and the evaluation reports for FY2007 have been available. - August 6, 2008
CDNLAO Newsletter No.62, UPDATE - August 4, 2008
Search Guide to "Kensei-shiryô" added (Japanese) - July 30, 2008
On September 17, the NDL Database Forum will be held at the Tokyo Main Library and the Kansai-kan. - July 30, 2008
Books on Japan Apr.- Jun. 2008, UPDATE - July 28, 2008
PORTA will be unavailable because of system maintenance from 17:00 to 19:00 on Jul. 30 (Japan Time). - July 16, 2008
New titles added to "Rare Books Image Database" (Japanese) - July 15, 2008
Call for participation in the questionnaire on Asian Resource Room Website (July 15 - September 30) - July 14, 2008
Remote services of ILCL materials now available for request via Internet - July 10, 2008
Event announcement of "Children's Day for Visiting Kasumigaseki" - July 7, 2008
The Rare Books Image Database will be unavailable because of system maintenance from 10:00 to 21:00, Jul. 16 (Japan Time). - July 4, 2008
NDL NEWSLETTER No.161, UPDATE - July 1, 2008
Site search on Asian Resources Room page has become available since Jul. 1, 2008. - June 30, 2008
New data added to "Database System for the Minutes of the Imperial Diet" (Japanese) - June 26, 2008
Rescheduling: Lecture and Discussion "Looking Toward Legislation for Internet Archiving" (Japanese) - June 26, 2008
Index Database to Japanese Laws, Regulations (Early Meiji Era edition) will be unavailable because of system maintenance from 10:00 to 18:00, Jul. 3 (Japan Time). - June 20, 2008
Commemoration of 60th anniversary of the National Diet Library. - June 9, 2008
Lecture and Discussion "Looking Toward Legislation for Internet Archiving" (Japanese) - May 23, 2008
The legal deposit system celebrates its 60th anniversary (Japanese). - May 19, 2008
"Instructions for Use of the National Diet Library" is available. - April 25, 2008
NDL Newsletter No.160, UPDATE. - April 25, 2008
The web site of ILCL will be unavailable because of system maintenance from 18:00 to 19:00 on Apr. 25 (Japan Time). - April 23, 2008
"Ensuring long-term preservation and usability of digital information" is available in English. - April 22, 2008
Books on Japan Jan.- Mar. 2008, UPDATE. - April 21, 2008
On May 24, an open discussion on legal deposit will be held at the Tokyo Main Library. - April 18, 2008
National Diet Library Monthly Bulletin's new look - April 7, 2008
Asian Resources Room page has been renewed. - March 31, 2008
Expanded search objects and new functions of "PORTA" - March 30, 2008
NDL-OPAC will be unavailable because of system maintenance from 1:00 to 7:00, Mar. 30 (Japan Time). - March 28, 2008
CDNLAO Newsletter No.61,UPDATE - March 24, 2008
Additions to the online gallery "The Meiji and Taisho Eras in Photographs: The Kansai in Photographs" - March 24, 2008
The web site of ILCL will be unavailable because of system maintenance from 17:00 to 20:00 on Mar. 19, 10:00 to 11:00 and 18:00 to 19:00 on Mar. 24 (Japan Time). - March 19, 2008
NDL Newsletter No.159, UPDATE. - March 17, 2008
Digital Gallery of World Picture Books will be unavailable because of system maintenance from 9:30 to 15:00, Mar. 17 (Japan Time). - March 11, 2008
Results of the on-site user survey of FY2007 are available in English. - February 20, 2008
The Rare Books Image Database will be unavailable because of system maintenance from 10:00 to 21:00, Feb. 20 (Japan Time). - February 15, 2008
The digest of proceedings of the Council on the Index to the History of Japanese Laws is now available. - February 13, 2008
Presentation slides of "Present and future prospects of web archiving" are available. - January 31, 2008
Vision for the NDL's 60th anniversary - January 29, 2008
Books on Japan Oct.- Dec. 2007, UPDATE. - January 22, 2008
Modern Japanese Political History Materials Room - Finding Aids in English version are available through NDL website. - January 10, 2008
"Trend of the past year" (outline of the "Annual Report of the NDL") is available in English. - January 8, 2008
ILCL will hold an exhibition "Door to the Czech Republic : The world of children books" - January 7, 2008
Unavailable online services during the year change period.