What's New - Fiscal Year 2023
List of What's New of Fiscal Year 2023
- March 29, 2024News
Selected Articles from the Research and Legislative Reference Bureau
- March 28, 2024News
Science and Technology Research Project reports released: "Considering Japan's Space Policy: What Should Be Done in the Next Ten Years?" "Technology and Its Social Implementation in the Digital Era" and "Materials Science: The State of the Art and Future Options."
- March 28, 2024News
199,000 items added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections
- March 27, 2024Publications
Selected Article from Current Awareness
- March 26, 2024News
Digital exhibition "Exploring Japanese Landmarks in Nishiki-e and Photographs" is now available
- March 26, 2024News
The ILCL Will Hold an Event: Enjoying Books on Science—About Karikó Katalin, Nobel Prize Winner from Hungary on April 27, 2024.
- March 26, 2024Events
From March 26, 2024 (Tue.) to June 23, 2024 (Sun.), ILCL is holding an exhibition "The Imperial Library and the Dawn of Japanese Children's Books"
- March 26, 2024Events
The ChatGPT Generative AI and the Future of School Education and Libraries * will be held at the ILCL.(Japanese)
- March 19, 2024Other
English translations of the kaleidoscope of Books "NINJA: In Fiction and in Reality" and "The Rimpa School and Its Influence as Seen in Books" are now available.
- March 19, 2024News
The Printing Function of the NDL's Digitized Contents Transmission Service for Libraries Will Be Opened to Approved Partner Libraries Overseas
- March 12, 2024News
Online contents "Explore, Learn, and Read: A Guide for Kids" and "Explore, Learn, and Read: A Guide for Teens" are now available.
- March 7, 2024Other
List of indexed periodicals in Japanese Periodicals Index (Online Periodicals), UPDATE March 7 (Japanese)
- March 7, 2024Other
List of indexed periodicals in Japanese Periodicals Index, UPDATE March 7 (Japanese)
- February 29, 2024Other
The Open Dataset of Bibliographic Data from "Introduction of Reference Books" in Research Navi is Now Available.
- February 28, 2024News
Some materials will be unavailable while undergoing digitization
- February 28, 2024Publications
NDL NEWSLETTER No. 255, UPDATE
- February 27, 2024News
Digital exhibition "Fauna and Flora in Illustrations: Natural History of the Edo era" now renewed
- February 27, 2024News
ILCL exhibition "The Imperial Library and the Dawn of Japanese Children's Books" will be held.（International Library of Children's Literature）
- February 19, 2024Other
CDNLAO Newsletter No. 103, UPDATE
- February 13, 2024News
Termination schedule of microfilming and microform duplication service
- February 7, 2024Other
English page about NDLkotenOCR have been released.
- February 1, 2024Events
Picture books and music for children "The Bear, the Piano and Little Bear's Concert" * will be held at the ILCL.(Japanese)
- February 1, 2024Other
Webinar: Information Sources for Japanese studies (in FY2023) (From Thursday, February 1, to Thursday, February 29, 2024)
- January 23, 2024Events
From January 23, 2024 (Tue.) to February 18, 2024 (Sun.), ILCL is holding an exhibition "Books for healthy growth of children : Cultural Materials of Child Welfare Recommended in FY 2022 *"
- January 22, 2024News
Some materials will be unavailable while undergoing digitization
- January 18, 2024News
The number of digitized materials that can be full-text searched will increase
- January 17, 2024Events
The 19th Forum on the Collaborative Reference Database Project " How to improve your reference skills: To become a research expert " will be held online (March 1, 2024)
- January 5, 2024News
The NDL Launches a new service: Mina Search
- January 5, 2024News
The new NDL Search launched
- January 4, 2024News
YAMAJI Yasushi appointed new Deputy Director General of the National Diet Library
- January 4, 2024News
New Year's Greetings
- December 22, 2023Other
55,000 items added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections
- December 21, 2023Publications
NDL NEWSLETTER No. 254, UPDATE
- December 15, 2023Other
The service via the new NDL Search will launch on January 5, 2024.
- December 12, 2023News
ILCL exhibition" Books for Healthy Growth of Children: Cultural Materials for Child Welfare Recommended in FY 2022"*
- December 1, 2023News
Library services at the year-end and New Year
- November 30, 2023News
Lecture: "The Magic Door" by British picture book author Rachel Bright to be held at the International Library of Children's Literature
- November 28, 2023News
31,000 items added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections
- November 17, 2023News
Handing down memories of the earthquake and traditions of the community—the FY2023 Great East Japan Earthquake Archive Symposium will be held on January 8, 2024
- October 31, 2023News
51,000 items newly added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections
- October 30, 2023Other
The open dataset of books on Japan in foreign languages has been updated.
- October 26, 2023News
The National Diet Library Digital Collections Is Named Library of the Year 2023 in the Librarianship Category
- October 25, 2023Publications
NDL NEWSLETTER No. 253, UPDATE
- October 20, 2023Service Stoppage
Temporary Suspension of Some Online Services December 27, 2023, to January 4, 2024
- October 19, 2023Events
November 12, 2023 (Sun.),
Special event for children in Autumn* will be held at the ILCL.
- October 2, 2023Events
The ILCL has uploaded to YouTube a video of a lecture "Food in picture books in the context of cross-cultural understanding, lifestyle, and gender". The video will be available until December 24(Sun.). (Japanese)
- October 2, 2023Events
From October 1, 2023 (Sun.) to December 24, 2023 (Sun.), ILCL is holding an exhibition "Yummy Children's Books"
- September 27, 2023Other
CDNLAO Newsletter No. 102, UPDATE
- September 27, 2023Publications
Selected Articles from Current Awareness-E
- September 19, 2023Events
November 5, 2023 (Sun.), Concert for Children * will be held in the ILCL. (Japanese)
- September 15, 2023Other
The list of online journals etc. published in Japan with ISSN, UPDATE September 15 (Japanese)
- August 31, 2023News
NDL to Integrate the NDL Online and NDL Search web services in January 2024
- August 30, 2023Events
Lecture: "National Libraries in the digital era―focusing on the strategies of the National Library of the Netherlands" will be held on October 11
- August 29, 2023News
27,000 items newly added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections
- August 24, 2023Publications
NDL NEWSLETTER No. 252, UPDATE
- August 14, 2023News
Services will be stopped on Tuesday, August 15 (Kansai-kan)
- August 14, 2023Other
The open dataset of the list of identifiers (IDs) which collate bibliographic data in different databases have been updated.
- August 8, 2023Other
English version of the NDL Image Bank is now available!
- July 25, 2023Events
ILCL exhibition "Yummy Children's Books" will be held. (International Library of Children's Literature)
- July 25, 2023Events
From July 25, 2023 (Tue.) to September 3, 2023 (Sun.), ILCL is holding an exhibition "Children's books link the World - Hans Christian Andersen Award 2020 & IBBY Honour List 2020"
- July 10, 2023News
Some materials will be unavailable while undergoing digitization
- June 30, 2023Other
The open dataset of bibliographic information of NDL's digital collections have been updated.
- June 28, 2023News
86,000 items newly added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections
- June 22, 2023News
Elimination of Entry Restrictions
- June 20, 2023Publications
NDL NEWSLETTER No. 251, UPDATE
- June 20, 2023Events
The ILCL has uploaded to YouTube a video of an Event for Children's Reading Day: entitled "Encounters with Books, the Joy of Reading—An Interview with Tomihiko Morimi". The video will be available until March 31, 2024 (Sun.). (Japanese)
- June 15, 2023Events
Library tours for children and parents during the summer vacation * will be held in the ILCL. (Japanese)
- June 13, 2023NewsEvents
ILCL exhibition "Children's books link the World - Hans Christian Andersen Award 2020 & IBBY Honour List 2020" will be held. (International Library of Children's Literature)
- June 5, 2023News
20,000 items newly added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections
- May 18, 2023News
Notice to Visitors
- May 11, 2023Other
Results of the user survey of FY2022 now available
- May 9, 2023Other
The list of online journals etc. published in Japan with ISSN, UPDATE May 9 (Japanese)
- May 8, 2023Other
User satisfaction survey of FY2023 has started
- April 26, 2023Publications
NDL NEWSLETTER No. 250, UPDATE
- April 25, 2023Other
The open dataset of books on Japan in foreign languages has been updated.
- April 17, 2023News
6th floor cafeteria at the Tokyo Main Library reopens on April 17, 2023
- April 10, 2023Events
May 5, 2023（Fri.）
Special event on Children's Day *will be held in the ILCL. (Japanese)
- April 5, 2023Other
Research Navi English page design has been changed on March 24, 2023.
Research Navi includes more than 1,900 research guides, information on the National Diet Library's distinctive collection of materials, and various thematic databases to help you with your research.
- April 3, 2023News
100,000 items newly added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections
- April 3, 2023Other
Greetings from the Director General have been updated
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