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- March 9, 2012
Building NDL Great East Japan Earthquake Archive website started - January 25, 2012
Oral history of politics in Japan: interview with Aiichiro Fujiyama now released - January 25, 2012
Digital exhibition "Children's Books Going Overseas from Japan" (English version) now available - 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 21, 2011
Electronic exhibition "Japanese Mathematics in the Edo Period" now available - December 12, 2011
Hiroyuki Taya appointed new Deputy Librarian - December 2, 2011
Support for recovering library materials affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake - November 22, 2011
Library Fair & Forum 2011 ends - November 1, 2011
NDL Search begins cooperation with J-GLOBAL of the Japan Science and Technology Agency - October 18, 2011
About 340,000 digitized materials will be added to the digital archives of the NDL - October 11, 2011
Library Fair & Forum 2011 - September 30, 2011
Unavailable services and period in October 2011 - September 16, 2011
Unavailable services and period in October 2011 - September 7, 2011
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. - August 23, 2011
Children's Day for Visiting Kasumigaseki held in the Library - August 11, 2011
Printouts from digital data expanded in copying service by postal mail - June 29, 2011
National Diet Library Electricity Saving Plan for summer - June 27, 2011
NDL's digitized materials pass the 1 million mark - June 1, 2011
More than 500,000 volumes have become available in the "Digital Library from the Meiji Era" (Japanese). - May 31, 2011
Historical Recordings Collection now available - May 18, 2011
Agreement with the Agency for Cultural Affairs - April 27, 2011
The "Second Basic Plan for the International Library of Children's Literature" has been formulated. - April 27, 2011
About 77,000 volumes have been added to the "Digital Library from the Meiji Era" to be seen only on the premises. - April 25, 2011
Tokyo Main Library keeps the usual opening hours from 25 April - April 25, 2011
The International Library of Children's Literature website renewed - April 18, 2011
Unavailable services and period in April & May 2011 - April 11, 2011
Services for assisting the life of people affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake and reconstruction of disaster-stricken areas - April 6, 2011
Research report "International Trends in Science & Technology Policy" published - April 4, 2011
"Rare Books Image Database" and "Web Archiving Project (Online Publications)" were renewed in April. - April 1, 2011
From April 1 (Fri.), Tokyo Main Library of the NDL will open from 9:30 to 17:00 - March 29, 2011
Research Material "China in the Global System" - March 25, 2011
Electronic exhibition "Expositions, where the modern technology of the times was exhibited" now available - March 23, 2011
From March 24 (Thu.) to 31 (Thu.), Tokyo Main Library of the NDL will open from 10:00 to 17:00. - March 18, 2011
Unavailable services and period in April 2011 - March 17, 2011
Lecture meeting: Universal Access to All Knowledge is cancelled - March 16, 2011
Some materials will be unavailable while undergoing mass digitization - March 15, 2011
From March 17 (Thu.) to 23 (Wed.), Tokyo Main Library of the NDL will open from 10:00 to 17:00. - March 14, 2011
On Mar. 15 (Tue.), Tokyo Main Library of the NDL will open from 11:00 to 17:00. - February 25, 2011
Unavailable services and periods in February 2011 - February 14, 2011
Their Majesties the Emperor and Empress of Japan visit the National Diet Library - February 1, 2011
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" - January 31, 2011
The National Diet Library starts copying service by postal mail from "Digital Library from the Meiji Era" - January 31, 2011
"Digital Library of Children's Literature" integrated into "Digital Library from the Meiji Era" (Japanese) and new volumes added - January 4, 2011
New Year Greetings: Challenges we face in 2011 - December 9, 2010
Library Fair & Forum 2010 ends - December 7, 2010
ILCL established the "Support plan for the promotion of children's reading activities 2010". - November 29, 2010
New chapter added to the electronic exhibition "Modern Japan in archives" - November 18, 2010
The Reference No. 718 features the 120th anniversary of the Japanese Diet - November 4, 2010
"Japanese Periodicals Index", the number of articles exceeded 10 million - November 4, 2010
Announcing Symposium "Enhancing the Culture of Reading and Books in the Digital Age - Copyright as a means to foster creativity and access - " - October 27, 2010
New web service "Newly Acquired Books Information" now available (Japanese) - October 27, 2010
Advertisement for the National Year of Reading won a prize in a competition. - October 20, 2010
Library Fair & Forum 2010 - October 6, 2010
Unavailable services and period in October 2010 - September 22, 2010
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. - September 21, 2010
News related to the National Year of Reading: Symposium commemorating the National Year of Reading: What is Reading? (Japanese) - September 17, 2010
Copyright clearance for digitized doctoral dissertations - September 14, 2010
Unavailable services and period in September 2010 - September 10, 2010
ILCL exhibition "The Golden Age of the Picture Book: 1920s & 1930s - History's Message to Children" - September 9, 2010
The NDL Database Forum(Japanese) - August 25, 2010
Children’s Day for Visiting Kasumigaseki was held in the Library - August 17, 2010
New web service "NDL Search (BETA)" now available - August 16, 2010
ILCL exhibition "Barrier-free Picture Books from Around the World - IBBY Outstanding Books for Young People with Disabilities 2009" - August 6, 2010
Lecture meeting commemorating the National Year of Reading: History and future of books and reading - August 4, 2010
Digitization in collaboration with the Library of Congress - July 28, 2010
Some materials will be unavailable while undergoing mass digitization - July 27, 2010
About 390,000 volumes will be available in the “Digital Library from the Meiji Era”(Japanese) - July 20, 2010
Demonstration experiment of full-text digitization in collaboration with publishers - July 15, 2010
The 17th Tokyo International Book Fair has finished - July 9, 2010
Digital Archive Portal(PORTA) and Resource Sharing System for the Humanities provided by the National Institutes for the Humanities start mutual cross searching. - July 5, 2010
“Macbeth” -- Lecture and Reading: the Event Celebrating the National Year of Reading has finished - July 5, 2010
Children's Day for Visiting Kasumigaseki - June 30, 2010
Lecture: Semantic Web and libraries (Japanese) - June 29, 2010
Digitization of the minutes of the Imperial Diet completed - June 25, 2010
The 17th Tokyo International Book Fair - June 23, 2010
Searching for copyright holders of books published in the Taisho and Showa period — Open Research for Author Information — - June 15, 2010
"Foreign Legislation" No 244 features "Nuclear Safety of Major Countries" (Japanese) - June 11, 2010
Bibliographic data of all domestic analog records are now available on NDL-OPAC - June 11, 2010
Small exhibition in the Kansai-kan - June 10, 2010
The National Diet Library offers Japanese bibliographic records(JAPAN/MARC) globally - June 7, 2010
Report of the Legal Deposit System Council "Concept of the Acquisition System for Online Publications" - June 4, 2010
Lecture meeting "Libraries and Reading in Germany and Europe" - May 31, 2010
World Digital Library Charter - May 26, 2010
The National Diet Library has made a poster commemorating the National Year of Reading - May 26, 2010
"Macbeth" -- Lecture and Reading: the Event Celebrating the National Year of Reading (Japanese) - May 14, 2010
Searching for copyright holders of books published in the Meiji period — Open Research for Author Information — - May 13, 2010
About 810,000 bibliographic data of technical reports, UMI dissertations and overseas standards added to NDL-OPAC - May 11, 2010
New service on the Web Archiving Project(Japanese) - May 10, 2010
Index Database to Japanese Laws, Regulations and Bills (Japanese) improved - May 7, 2010
Kaleidoscope of Books "A history of bestsellers - from the creators’ perspective" now available (Japanese) - May 5, 2010
Addition to "Kodomo no Kuni magazine article search" of the Picture Book Gallery - April 26, 2010
Unavailable services and periods - April 26, 2010
Some materials will be unavailable while undergoing mass digitization - April 23, 2010
NDL kids’ website opened (Japanese) - April 14, 2010
"Enjoy Japanese language through a traditional performing art ; Rakugo for Children" - April 7, 2010
Research Material "Toward Establishing a Sustainable Society" - April 2, 2010
Commemorating the National Year of Reading, reading promotion activities of foreign countries introduced in our publication - March 15, 2010
National Year of Reading Forum "Handing on Japanese language and culture to the future: Why is the library necessary?" - March 12, 2010
Web Archiving Project by the revised National Diet Library Law - March 12, 2010
Conference on the Japanese National Bibliography - March 11, 2010
List of RSS Feeds and Email Magazines - March 3, 2010
Roundtable on digital information resources launched - February 15, 2010
ILCL exhibition "Children's Books Going Overseas from Japan" - February 5, 2010
Kaleidoscope of Books "Profiles of handsome characters" now available (Japanese) - January 27, 2010
NDL's mobile phone website launched. - January 4, 2010
New Year Greetings: Exploring New "Reading" - December 25, 2009
2010 National Year of Reading - December 24, 2009
Library Fair & Forum 2009 ends - December 18, 2009
Additions to the online gallery "Japan-Netherlands Exchange in the Edo Period" - December 18, 2009
Some materials will be unavailable because of mass digitization - December 18, 2009
The enlargement photocopy service to photographic paper will cease at the end of March 2010. - October 14, 2009
Library Fair & Forum 2009 - September 18, 2009
Unavailable services and period in October 2009 - September 8, 2009
Children's Day for Visiting Kasumigaseki in the Library closed - August 28, 2009
About 7,800 volumes have been added to "Digital Library from the Meiji Era" (Japanese) - July 30, 2009
The 16th Tokyo International Book Fair has finished - July 15, 2009
Exhibition "All Aboard! for a Trip around Books on Vehicles" at International Library of Children's Literature - July 10, 2009
Searching for copyright holders of books published in the Meiji period - Open Research for Author Information - - July 8, 2009
Children's Day for Visiting Kasumigaseki - June 26, 2009
The 16th Tokyo International Book Fair - May 29, 2009
To Prevent the Spread of Influenza A (H1N1) - May 22, 2009
New web service "RESEARCH NAVI" now available - May 21, 2009
Addition to the Picture Book Gallery "Kodomo no Kuni magazine article search" - May 21, 2009
New data added to "Database System for the Minutes of the Imperial Diet" - May 19, 2009
To Prevent the Spread of Influenza A (H1N1) - April 22, 2009
The NDL contributes to the World Digital Library - March 31, 2009
Transfer of library materials from the Tokyo Main Library to the Kansai-kan - March 11, 2009
ILCL exhibition "Palette of Dream Colours IV" - March 2, 2009
Additions to the online gallery "100 anos de imigração japonesa no Brasil" - January 5, 2009
New Year Greetings - November 5, 2008
Dr. Makoto NAGAO designated as Person of Cultural Merit - October 7, 2008
Library Fair & Forum 2008 - September 12, 2008
Children’s Day for Visiting Kasumigaseki in the Library closed - September 4, 2008
Exhibition "World of Illustrations for Children: Picture Magazines and Their Artists" at International Library of Children's Literature - August 28, 2008
100,000 titles available in “Digital Library from the Meiji Era”(Japanese) - July 14, 2008
Remote service of ILCL materials now available for request via Internet - July 10, 2008
Children's Day for Visiting Kasumigaseki - June 5, 2008
Commemoration of 60th anniversary of the National Diet Library - April 18, 2008
National Diet Library Monthly Bulletin's new look - March 24, 2008
Additions to the online gallery "The Meiji and Taisho Eras in Photographs: The Kansai in Photographs" - January 8, 2008
The International Library of Children’s Literature will hold an exhibition “Door to the Czech Republic : The world of children ’s books” - December 17, 2007
Motonobu Yoshinaga appointed new Deputy Librarian - November 12, 2007
Library Fair & Forum 2007 ends - October 17, 2007
NDL-OPAC linked with the Digital Library from the Meiji Era - October 15, 2007
National Diet Library Digital Archive Portal “PORTA” released - September 3, 2007
Library Fair & Forum 2007 - September 3, 2007
Children's Day for Visiting Kasumigaseki in the Library closed - August 24, 2007
Additions to the online gallery "The Meiji and Taisho Eras in Photographs" - August 24, 2007
ILCL exhibition "Palette of Dream Colours III" - July 23, 2007
Call for participation in the National Diet Library Database Forum - July 2, 2007
Books of the Taisho Era newly added to “Digital Library from the Meiji Era” - June 19, 2007
Children's Day for Visiting Kasumigaseki - May 23, 2007
Call for participation in the questionnaire on "National Diet Library Monthly Bulletin" - May 23, 2007
New postcards have arrived - May 23, 2007
Japanese National Bibliography will be available only through the NDL website from July 2007 - May 23, 2007
Picture Book Gallery "Art and Daily Life: Modernism in the Picture Book" released - May 23, 2007
New data added to the Database System for the Minutes of the Imperial Diet - May 23, 2007
"A New Compilation of Materials on the Yasukuni Shrine Problems" released - April 2, 2007
Dr. Makoto Nagao appointed new Librarian of the National Diet Library - December 22, 2006
Extension of operational hours of the NDL-OPAC on the Internet - February 28, 2006
Yoshitaka Ikuhara appointed new Deputy Librarian - November 7, 2005
Open seminar on the documentary heritage damaged by the Indian Ocean Tsunami - September 12, 2005
Special Exhibition “Fauna and Flora in Illustrations: Natural History of the Edo Era” - December 15, 2004
Akio Yasue appointed new Deputy Librarian