The following are the budgetary steps that the NDL will take in FY2003:

1. Renovation of the Tokyo Main Library. 
2. Reduction of budgetary allocation for the Kansai-kan and the International Library of Children's Literature (ILCL) to a standard level. 
3. Improvement of library services under close cooperation of the three facilities (the Tokyo Main Library, the Kansai-kan and the ILCL). 

The composition of the total budget is:

• Personnel expenses: 42.2% (39.2% in FY2002)
• Acquisition of library materials: 9.6% (8.1%)
• Development of information systems: 17.1% (14.5%)
• Office expenses: 21.4% (22.0%)
• Building and facilities: 9.7% (16.2%)

Major expenditures of the FY2003 budget are as follows: 

1. Renovation of the Tokyo Main Library

After the Kansai-kan opened, part of the library materials and services were transferred to it from the Tokyo Main Library. In consequence, the Tokyo Main Library is now relocating library materials, reading rooms and offices. The NDL is also executing a three-year plan started in FY2002 to renovate the Catalog Hall and reading rooms so that library users can request materials and photocopies via computer terminals. 

As expenses for the renovation and reorganization of the Tokyo Main Library, the Diet approved approximately 1.39 billion yen for FY2002. The total budget of the three-year plan will be about 2.5 billion yen. A further 350 million yen was approved for the relocation of library materials, reading rooms and offices. 

2. Digital Library Service

The Electronic Library Infrastructure System that enables the Tokyo Main Library, the Kansai-kan and the ILCL to provide integrated services has been constructed since FY1998. For FY 2003, approximately 2.63 billion yen was allocated for these expenses.

Expenses for increasing the content of Electronic Library Services have been included since the FY2000 supplementary budget. For FY2003, 300 million yen was allocated which will be used to operate projects such as the digitization of Japanese books published in the Meiji era.

3. Services for the Diet

Expenses for constructing a database system for the statutes and parliamentary documents were budgeted for FY2002. The system will provide the Diet members, executive and judicial agencies and the pubic with information on the Diet. 

In order to deal promptly with requests from Diet members, increased expenses for the purchase of research materials for legislation and expenses for improving electronic devices in the Diet members' Reading Room were budgeted.

4. Kansai-kan of the National Diet Library

The Diet approved the land acquisition cost for Phase 2 construction of the Kansai-kan in FY2002. For FY2003, approximately 770 million yen was allocated for the next expenses.

5. Acquisition of library materials 

In order to provide scientific and technological information promptly and precisely, 190 million yen was budgeted to purchase more electronic journals to be provided in the Tokyo Main Library and the Kansai-kan.

Amounts of National Diet Library's FY2003 Expenditure Budget