In FY2002, after the opening of the Kansai-kan of the NDL and the full opening of the ILCL, the NDL will have enhanced library services with all three facilities. Therefore the budget has been allocated to various new measures. 

The composition of the total budget is:
 

• Salary and personnel expenses: 39.2% (33.0% in FY2001)
• Acquisition of library materials: 8.1% (5.0%)
• Development of information systems: 14.5% (12.0%)
• Office expenses: 22.0% (10.8%)
• Building and facilities: 16.2% (39.2%)

The following are major expenditures of the FY2002 budget. 
 

1. Kansai-kan of the National Diet Library

Approximately 3.4 billion yen was budgeted for the final allocation to the building construction. The remaining construction such as exterior work will be finished in August and the Kansai-kan will be opened in October 2002. Other costs of the Kansai-kan excluding the cost of construction are below. 

2. Tokyo Main Library

As part of the library materials and services are being transferred to the Kansai-kan, there will be a relocation of library materials, reading rooms and offices in the Tokyo Main Library. A three-year plan of renovation of the Catalog Hall and reading rooms will be undertaken in order to provide a new service that makes it possible to request materials and photocopies via computer terminal. As expenses for the renovation and reorganization of the Tokyo Main Library, approximately 270,000,000 yen was approved for FY2002. The total budget of the three-year plan will be approximately 2.5 billion yen. 
 

3. International Library of Children's Literature

The ILCL, partly opened in May 2000, was fully opened in May 2002. After the full opening, the ILCL will upgrade user services for both children and researchers, start to provide services to school libraries, and increase electronic information of the bibliographic data and image data of its holdings. For operation of the ILCL, approximately 810,000,000 yen was budgeted. 
 

4. Services for the Diet 

Expenses for revising the Total System for Research and Information Services, through which the Library provides services to the Diet members via the Internet, were budgeted in order to deal promptly with requests from the Diet members. 

Apart from the Full-text Database System for the Minutes of the Diet, expenses for construction of the Database System for the Statutes and Parliamentary Documents were newly authorized. 
 

5. Electronic Library Service

Expenses for the Electronic Library Infrastructure System that enables the Tokyo Main Library, the Kansai-kan and the ILCL to provide services in an integrated way has been budgeted since the FY1998. For FY 2002, approximately 2,360,000,000 yen was allocated. 

Expenses for the Electronic Library Services, which will be operated in the Kansai-kan, have been included since the FY2000 supplementary budget and have been increasing content gradually. For FY2002, approximately 276,000,000 yen was allocated which will be used to operate projects such as the digitization of Japanese books printed in the Meiji era. 
 

6. Acquisition of library materials 

To provide information related to science and technology promptly, 70,000,000 yen for purchasing electronic journals provided in the Tokyo Main Library and the Kansai-kan was budgeted.