NATIONAL DIET LIBRARY MONTHLY BULLETIN

No.435 June 1997

• Homepage of national libraries in the world Guide to HP of national libraries of foreign countries HP of NDL : its past, present and future
• Report on the Second Workshop on Preservation: Establishing a preservation information network in the Asia-pacific region
• First meeting of the digital publications section of the investigation committee on the legal deposit system
• Increasing expectations of the Kansai-kan : 3rd anniversary of BBCC "Multimedia remote multiple symposium"

• National Union Catalog Network in NDL : toward operation Team for Promotion of Union Catalog Operation, Committee for Promotion of the Electronic Library, Planning Division, Administrative Department
• NDL budget for fiscal 1997
• First meeting of the Conference on Promotion of the Electronic Library
• No.437 August 1997
• Children's books and the role of national libraries History and future of the Library of Congress Children's Literature Center Sybille A. Jagusch Preparation for the opening of the International Library of Children's Literature
• Tidbits of information on NDL : special :from the editorial board of the fifty years' history

Biblos

-Monthly Magazine for Branch Libraries, Executive and Judicial, and Other Special Libraries-

Vol. 48 No.6 June 1997

• On the network library system of the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Research Information Center Yoshiyuki Hamada
• Front line of library cooperation (6): Surrounded by heartwarming people and books Mariko Shiomi
• My private opinions on the library (3) Masayuki Senga
• Use of recycled paper and preservation: 10th Forum on Preservation at the NDL Satoko Muramoto
• Our special collections (8): Defense Facilities Administration Agency Library's materials on the history of the Agency Masaki Nakamoto

• Training for senior librarians in Japanese studies realized : a new step toward promotion of Japanese studies
• Preface -------Takao Murayama
• From Rome--- Ikuko Kaji
• International cooperation in information age : for expansion of Japanese studies overseas Noboru Koyama
• Request for cooperation for training of librarians in Japanese studies abroad Sekiko Matsuzaki Networking and sharing Izumi Koide
• My private opinions on the library (4) Masayuki Senga
• Our special collections (9) : Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications Library's materials on multimedia Katsuji Ishikawa
• Database in Asian languages in TOYO BUNKO (Oriental Library) Yoichi Fukuda

• Newborn Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Library :its steps toward digitization Yoshitsune Akino
• Serving the Diet behind the scenes : Research Materials Division Michiyo Takeda
• Activities of the Ministry of Transport Port and Harbour Research Institute Library :a report on location research for literature on the history of harbours Masakazu Araki
• Mr. Masuo Ikeda and the National Diet Library Kunihiko Shimada
• Review: catalog of investigated and acquired microfilms related to the Japan-Okinawa modern history Taro Suzuki

N.D.L. Library Science Series

No. 34 July 1997

Legal deposit system and its application to electronic publication

• A glimpse of the history of legal deposit system and the approach to electronic publications, notes of study on "gscience of legal deposit"
• Legal deposit and bibliographic control of non-governmental publications
• Information society and the legal deposit system for electronic publications
• The National Library of Norway and the legal deposit system for electronic publications
• Legal deposit system in France
• Legal deposit system in Germany: Unification of East and West Germany and the application of law to electronic publications
• Present status and trend of legal deposit system for electronic publications in the United States
• A perspective to a new law concerning legal deposit system: Proposal of the British Library
• An overview of advanced legal deposit laws in the ten highly industrialized nations : points to consider in the new legislation for electronic publications