What's New - Year 2010
List of What's New of 2010
- December 28, 2010
On Feb. 25 (Fri.), 7th forum on the Collaborative Reference Database Project will be held (Japanese). - December 28, 2010
On Feb. 10 (Thu.), 18th forum on the National Union Catalog Network Project will be held (Japanese). - December 27, 2010
Library Fair & Forum 2010 ends - December 21, 2010
On Jan. 22 (Sat.), Series: What's happening with Children's Books in the World? (3rd) will be held. (Japanese) - December 13, 2010
"Miyada Village Internet Museum" was added to search targets of "PORTA" - December 10, 2010
Some databases of ILCL will be unavailable because of system maintenance from 9:00 to 11:00. Dec. 13 (Jappan Time). - December 8, 2010
Exhibition in the Kansai-kan: "Toward the Meiji constitutional system: seen through the handwritten works of prominent figures" (Japanese) - December 2, 2010
The Reference No. 718 features the 120th anniversary of the Japanese Diet. - December 1, 2010
On Jan. 8 (Sat.), Demonstration session for adults of "Story Hour for Children" will be held. (Japanese) - December 1, 2010
On Jan. 14 (Fri.), lecture meeting "Evaluation which creates opportunities for reform and improvement" will be held. (Japanese) - December 1, 2010
The Yearend and New Year Schedule for Visitors (Japanese) - November 29, 2010
New chapter added to the electronic exhibition "Modern Japan in archives" - November 29, 2010
NDL Search (BETA) will be unavailable because of system maintenance on Dec. 4 and 18 (Japan Time). - November 25, 2010
List of indexed periodicals in Japanese Periodicals Index, UPDATE November 25 (Japanese) - November 22, 2010
A database of National Institutes for Cultural Heritage was added to search targets of "PORTA" - November 19, 2010
Advertisement for the National Year of Reading won a prize in a competition. - November 19, 2010
"Japanese Periodicals Index", the number of articles exceeded 10 million - November 19, 2010
NDL NEWSLETTER No.175, UPDATE - November 19, 2010
Small exhibition in the Kansai-kan: Source materials which produced 2010 Nobel laureates (Japanese) - November 15, 2010
"Yokohama's Memory" of Yokohama City Central Library was added to search targets of "PORTA". - November 2, 2010
The Rare Books Image Database will be unavailable because of system maintenance from 10:00 to 18:00, November 17 (Japan Time). - October 27, 2010
Library Fair & Forum 2010 - October 27, 2010
New web service "Newly Acquired Books Information" now available. (Japanese) - October 27, 2010
The 5th Kaleidoscope of Books "Welcome to the sky" now available (Japanese) - October 26, 2010
On Nov. 21 (Sun.), Kansai-kan Open House 2010 will be held. (Japanese) - October 26, 2010
Books on Japan Jul.- Sep. 2010, UPDATE - October 20, 2010
Some services about ILCL will be unavailable from Nov. 2 to Nov. 4(Japan Time) because of power outage. (Japanese) - October 20, 2010
Annual report FY 2009 is now available. (Japanese) - October 19, 2010
From Dec. 1(Wed.), Exhibition commemorating the 120th anniversary of the establishment of the Diet will be held.(Japanese) - October 14, 2010
Bibliographic records of electronic journals published in Japan with ISSN assigned, UPDATE Oct. 14 (Japanese) - October 8, 2010
On Nov. 27 (Sat.), symposium "The Golden Age of the Picture Book: America and the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s." will be held. (Japanese) - October 6, 2010
Some services will be unavailable from Oct. 9 to Oct. 12 (Japan Time) because of power outage. - October 4, 2010
On Oct. 24 (sun.), "Enjoy Japanese Folktales: reading event for children and parents" will be held.(Japanese) - October 1, 2010
NDL NEWSLETTER No.174, UPDATE - September 29, 2010
Two Databases of National Museum of Japanese History were added to search targets of "PORTA" - September 29, 2010
List of indexed periodicals in Japanese Periodicals Index, UPDATE September 29 (Japanese) - September 24, 2010
The NDL concluded the Digital Library Initiative Agreement with the NLC and the NLK on August 10, 2010. - September 24, 2010
Copyright clearance for digitized doctoral dissertations - September 21, 2010
On Oct. 20(Wed.), symposium commemorating the National Year of Reading will be held. (Japanese) - September 14, 2010
Some services will be unavailable from Sept. 18 to Sept. 21 (Japan Time) because of power outage. - September 9, 2010
The National Diet Library (NDL) Database Forum will be held.(Japanese) - September 8, 2010
From Sept. 16(Thu.), Small exhibition "People Journeying along the Silk Road" will be held in the Kansai-kan. (Japanese) - September 2, 2010
Children's Day for Visiting Kasumigaseki was held in the Library. - September 1, 2010
Call for your participation in Website User Surveys (until September 30) - September 1, 2010
On Oct. 8 (Sat.), International Policy Seminar "China's Global Strategy and Japan-China Relations" will be held. - August 31, 2010
Events commemorating the National Year of Reading - August 30, 2010
Digital Archives of 2 regional Libraries were added to search targets of "PORTA" - August 26, 2010
Digitization in collaboration with the Library of Congress - August 26, 2010
On Oct. 8 (Fri.), Lecture meeting "Latest trends in U.S. libraries and OCLC in the digital environment" will be held at the Kansai-kan. - August 20, 2010
From Sept. 18 (Sat.), ILCL exhibition "The Golden Age of the Picture Book: 1920s & 1930s" will be held.(Japanese) - August 18, 2010
On Oct. 9 (Sat.), Lecture "Picture Books of the 1920s: Their Message to Children" will be held. (Japanese) - August 18, 2010
On Sept. 25 (Sat.), Series: What's happening with Children's Books in the World? (2nd) will be held. (Japanese) - August 17, 2010
New web service "NDL Search (BETA)" now available (Japanese) - August 16, 2010
From Aug. 21 (Sat.), ILCL exhibition "Barrier-free picture books from around the world" will be held.(Japanese) - August 16, 2010
Collection Database of Nara National Museum and Digital Archive of Kanagawa Prefectural Library were added to search targets of "PORTA." - August 13, 2010
Evaluation reports for FY2009 are now available. - August 10, 2010
CDNLAO Newsletter No.68, UPDATE - August 10, 2010
On December 1 and 2, Symposium "Enhancing the Culture of Reading and Books in the Digital Age" will be held. - August 9, 2010
3 digital archives of regional libraries and 1 of NDL were added to search targets of "PORTA". - August 6, 2010
On September 7, Lecture meeting commemorating the National Year of Reading: History and future of books and reading will be held. - August 2, 2010
3 digital archives of regional libraries (Saitama, Nagoya and Chiba) were added to search targets of "PORTA." - July 30, 2010
The National Diet Library (NDL) Database Forum will be held.(Japanese) - July 29, 2010
The Rare Books Image Database will be unavailable because of system maintenance from 15:00 to 17:00, July 30 (Japan Time) - July 27, 2010
About 14,000 volumes have been added to "Digital Library from the Meiji Era."(Japanese) - July 27, 2010
The 17th Tokyo International Book Fair has finished. - July 27, 2010
"Macbeth" -- Lecture and Reading: the Event Celebrating the National Year of Reading has finished. - July 27, 2010
List of indexed periodicals in Japanese Periodicals Index, UPDATE July 27 (Japanese) - July 27, 2010
Bibliographic records of electronic journals published in Japan with ISSN assigned, UPDATE July 27 (Japanese) - July 27, 2010
Books on Japan Apr.- Jun. 2010, UPDATE - July 22, 2010
National Union Catalog of Newspapers will be unavailable intermittently because of system maintenance from 18:00 to 22:00, July 26 (Japan Time). - July 20, 2010
Demonstration experiment of full-text digitization in collaboration with publishers - July 16, 2010
NDL NEWSLETTER No.173, UPDATE - July 15, 2010
Digitization of the minutes of the Imperial Diet completed - July 14, 2010
PORTA and Resource Sharing System for the Humanities provided by the National Institutes for the Humanities start mutual cross searching. - July 14, 2010
On July 27 (Tue.) , Lecture "Semantic Web and libraries" will be held(Japanese). - July 12, 2010
National Union Catalog of Newspapers will be unavailable intermittently because of system maintenance from July 16 to July 22 (Japan Time). - July 7, 2010
Children's Day for Visiting Kasumigaseki - July 7, 2010
Index Database to Laws and Regulations in early Meiji Japan will be unavailable because of system maintenance from 10:00 to 11:00, Jul. 21 (Japan Time) - July 6, 2010
Summer event of the International Library of Children's Literature: Fun with science (Japanese) - July 6, 2010
The 17th Tokyo International Book Fair - July 6, 2010
Searching for copyright holders of books published in the Taisho and Showa period — Open Research for Author Information — - July 5, 2010
The Rare Books Image Database will be unavailable because of system maintenance from 10:00 to 18:00, July 21 (Japan Time). - July 1, 2010
RESEARCH NAVI (research guide) was added to search targets of "PORTA". - June 21, 2010
Report of the Legal Deposit System Council was decided. - June 21, 2010
The World Digital Library Charter entered into force. - June 18, 2010
Bibliographic data of all domestic analog records are now available on NDL-OPAC. - June 18, 2010
"Foreign Legislation" No 244 featuring "Nuclear Safety of Major Countries" UPDATE (Japanese) - June 10, 2010
About providing of Japanese National Bibliography (JAPAN/MARC) for OCLC(Japanese) - June 8, 2010
On July 16 (Fri.), Lecture "Future of the Digital Library" will be held at the Kansai-kan. (Japanese) - June 4, 2010
Small exhibition "Old bestsellers" will be held in the Kansai-kan from June 17. (Japanese) - June 4, 2010
On July 13 (Tue.), Lecture meeting "Libraries and Reading in Germany and Europe" will be held. - June 4, 2010
About 810,000 bibliographic data of technical reports, UMI dissertations and overseas standards added to NDL-OPAC - June 2, 2010
Research instruction sessions for visitors (Japanese) - June 1, 2010
The Rare Books Image Database will be unavailable because of system maintenance from 10:00 to 13:00, June 16 (Japan Time). - June 1, 2010
The National Diet Library has made a poster commemorating the National Year of Reading. - May 31, 2010
Database System for the Minutes of the Imperial Diet will be unavailable because of system maintenance from 10:00 to 15:00, Jun. 15 (Japan Time). - May 28, 2010
Searching for copyright holders of books published in the Meiji period -- Open Research for Author Information -- - May 28, 2010
List of indexed periodicals in Japanese Periodicals Index, UPDATE May 28 (Japanese) - May 19, 2010
NDL NEWSLETTER No.172, UPDATE - May 19, 2010
On June 17 and 19, "Macbeth" - Lecture and Reading: the event celebrating the National Year of Reading will be held. - May 17, 2010
3 digital archives of prefectural libraries (Fukuoka, Tottori and Kyoto) were added to search targets of "PORTA" - May 11, 2010
New service on the Web Archiving Project (Japanese) - May 10, 2010
Index Database to Japanese Laws, Regulations and Bills renewed (Japanese). - May 10, 2010
NII Digital Archive of Toyo Bunko Rare Books added to search targets of "PORTA" - May 6, 2010
Addition to "Kodomo no Kuni magazine article search" of the Picture Book Gallery - April 30, 2010
Invitation to electronic exhibition "Birth of the Constitution of Japan" - April 30, 2010
Bibliographic records of electronic journals published in Japan with ISSN assigned, UPDATE April 30 (Japanese). - April 30, 2010
CDNLAO Newsletter No.67, UPDATE - April 27, 2010
Some services will be unavailable because of system maintenance from May 3 to May 6 (Japan Time). - April 27, 2010
Database System for the Minutes of the Imperial Diet will be unavailable because of system maintenance from 17:30 to 20:00, Apr. 28(Japan Time). - April 27, 2010
Index Database to Japanese Laws, Regulations and Bills will be unavailable because of system maintenance from 12:00 to 24:00, May. 9 (Japan Time). - April 27, 2010
Books on Japan Jan.- Mar. 2010, Jan.-Dec. 2009, UPDATE - April 26, 2010
Local Material Images of Okayama Municipal Central Library added to search targets of "PORTA" - April 23, 2010
NDL kids' website opened (Japanese) - April 21, 2010
The 4th Kaleidoscope of Books "A history of bestsellers" now available (Japanese) - April 21, 2010
Guidance for User Registration - April 14, 2010
On May 5 (Wed.), "Enjoy Japanese language through a traditional performing art ; Rakugo for Children" will be held. - April 14, 2010
NDL Catalog (Doctoral Dissertations) added to search targets of "PORTA" - April 13, 2010
Lesson in how to use the Tokyo Main Library - April 13, 2010
"Trends of the past year" (outline of the "Annual Report of the NDL FY 2008") is available in English. - April 7, 2010
Research Material "Toward Establishing a Sustainable Society" - April 7, 2010
Renewal of "Reference Service and Bibliography" - April 6, 2010
List of indexed periodicals in Japanese Periodicals Index, UPDATE April 6 (Japanese) - April 1, 2010
Digital Library from the Meiji Era has been renewed (Japanese) - March 26, 2010
Audio-Visual Materials Room will be closed from May 6th (Thu.) to May 7th (Fri.) - March 26, 2010
Roundtable on digital information resources launched - March 26, 2010
Conference on the Japanese National Bibliography - March 26, 2010
Web Archiving Project by the revised National Diet Library Law - March 26, 2010
On April 17 (Sat.), National Year of Reading Forum "Handing on Japanese language and culture to the future: Why is the library necessary?" - March 24, 2010
On March 31 (Wed.), The International Library of Children's Literature (ILCL) starts e-mail magazine (Japanese) - March 23, 2010
INTERNET magazine Back Number Archives added to search targets of "PORTA" - March 18, 2010
Database System for the Minutes of the Imperial Diet will be unavailable because of system maintenance from A.M.10:30 to 10:35, Mar. 30 (Japan Time). - March 18, 2010
Full-text Database System for the Minutes of the Diet will be unavailable because of system maintenance from A.M.10:30 to 10:35, Mar. 30 (Japan Time). - March 11, 2010
List of RSS Feeds and Email Magazines - March 9, 2010
NDL NEWSLETTER No.171, UPDATE - March 8, 2010
Rare books image database of Osaka Prefectural Nakanoshima Library added to search targets of "PORTA" - February 24, 2010
Telephone & Fax Information Service will be unavailable because of maintenance from 23:00, Mar. 6 to 5:00, Mar. 7 (Japan Time). - February 23, 2010
On March 9 (Tue), Lecture meeting "Academic Libraries: Getting to the Future in the Google World" will be held. - February 23, 2010
List of indexed periodicals in Japanese Periodicals Index, UPDATE February 9 (Japanese) - February 22, 2010
ILCL exhibition "Children's Books Going Overseas from Japan" - February 19, 2010
On March 2 (Fri), Lecture meeting "Connecting intellectual properties - Initiatives in Europe" will be held. - February 5, 2010
Bibliographic records of electronic journals published in Japan with ISSN assigned, UPDATE (Japanese). - February 4, 2010
Japanese Periodicals Index data made before 2002 added to "PORTA" - February 3, 2010
The Rare Books Image Database will be unavailable because of system maintenance from 10:00 to 19:00, February 17 (Japan Time). - January 27, 2010
NDL's mobile phone website now available (Japanese) - January 27, 2010
NDL NEWSLETTER No.170, UPDATE - January 26, 2010
New addition to the Digital Library of Children's Literature (Japanese) - January 26, 2010
Books on Japan Oct.- Dec. 2009, UPDATE. - January 25, 2010
On February 19 (Fri.), "International Symposium on Preservation of Digital Resources and Longevity of Digital Archives" will be held. (Japanese) - January 25, 2010
The 3rd Kaleidoscope of Books "Profiles of handsome characters" now available (Japanese) - January 25, 2010
Digital library of Tokushima Prefectural Library added to search targets of "PORTA" - January 19, 2010
Small exhibition "The Winter Olympics" will be held in the Kansai-kan from January 21. (Japanese) - January 18, 2010
Digital library of Shimane Prefectural Library added to search targets of "PORTA" - January 15, 2010
NDL National Union Catalog Network System will be unavailable because of system maintenance from 10:00 to 18:00, Jan. 18 (Japan Time). - January 12, 2010
Northern Materials Digital library of Hokkaido Prefectural Library added to search targets of "PORTA" - January 6, 2010
Digital library of Sapporo Municipal Central Library added to search targets of "PORTA" - January 4, 2010
New Year Greetings: Exploring New "Reading"