No. 509, August 2003

• Disaster prevention in Kansai-kan: plans, facilities and equipment 
• Legal Deposit System Council 8th meeting 
• Conference with directors of prefectural and major municipal libraries in fiscal 2003
• Removal of the Card Catalog and the new Catalog Hall
• Past and present of the Card Catalog in retrospect by Junko Yokoyama
• <Announcements>
  • Electronic Exhibition "Japanese Ex-libris Stamps" now available on the NDL web site  related article
• Overview of materials added after 1995 to the Modern Japanese Political History Collection (1)
• Tsurezure gusa (Essays in Idleness)- in English translation? : Translated Japanese literature (Enchanting world of books EGuide to regular exhibitions, 3)   related web page (Japanese only)

                                                  No. 508, July 2003

• Reorganization of library cooperation by Fumiko Kodama
• New services and future challenges of the Detached Library in the Diet:
  Guidance on library services for "Diet people" by Meitetsu Haruyama
• Development of Electronic Library Infrastructure System in NDL 
• <Announcement>
  • 7th Preservation and Conservation Training Program
• Introduction to a new series "Overview of materials added after 1995 to the Modern Japanese Political History Collection": A short essay on collecting Modern Japanese Political History Materials 
• What's bibliographic control? (2) Cataloging rules across borders