The composition of the total budget is: Personnel expenses: 41.4% (43.1% in FY2004)  Acquisition of library materials: 9.8% (9.7% in FY2004)  Development of information systems: 17.6% (16.5% in FY2004)   Office expenses: 21.1% (21.3% in FY2004)  Building and facilities: 8.2% (8.7% in FY2004)  Redemption of 'NTT interest-free loans' (B-type): 1.9% (0.7% in FY2004)

Major expenditures of the 2005 budget are as follows: 

1. Creation of the Digital Archives

(1) Construction of the Digital Archives System
In order to secure a wide access to the digital materials as well as to prevent online information resources from being scattered and lost and instead trying to collect and preserve them, a digital archives system that collects, preserves and offers digital information is under construction. For FY 2005, as expense for research and system design, about 980 million yen was approved. 
(2) Expense for the long-term preservation of digital information
For commissioned research related to the long-term preservation of digital information, about 20 million was approved. 
(3) Construction of digital content
Since FY 2000 the NDL has been gradually increasing the digital content for the Digital Library Services. For FY 2005, about 60 million yen was allocated for the digitization of Japanese books published in the Meiji Era and other projects. 

2. Building the Electronic Library Service Infrastructure

(1) Development of the Electronic Library Infrastructure System
In order to enable the Tokyo Main Library, the Kansai-kan and the International Library of Children's Literature to operate and provide services in an integrated way, in FY 2005 about 2.33 billion yen was approved for the performance and replacement of the Electronic Library Infrastructure System. 
(2) Construction of the full-text database for the Minutes of the Imperial Diet
For inputting the data into the above database, about 40 million yen was approved. 
(3) Provision of offering electronic journals
In order to provide even more comprehensive services on science and technology information, about 240 million yen was approved to enlarge the electronic journal collections of the Tokyo Main Library and the Kansai-kan. 

3. Acquisition of the Prange Book Collection

About 60 million yen was approved, for purchasing reproductions of books in the Prange Book Collection. This is a collection of books published in Japan that had to be sent to the General Headquarters of the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (GHQ/SCAP) for censorship during the early period of the Occupation (1945-1949). It is now owned by the University of Maryland Libraries. 

4. Buildings and facilities

(1) Renovation of the Annex of the Tokyo Main Library
About 720 million yen was approved for the replacement of sanitary facilities, elevators and connecting walkways to the Annex in addition to the replacement of book conveyers that started in 2004. 
(2) Renovation of the other facilities
As expenses for other renovation work, the following were budgeted: 
About 620 million yen for the renovation of the disaster prevention system of the Tokyo Main Library; about 60 million yen for the repair of the outside wall of the Tokyo Main Library; about 30 million yen for the construction for the kitchen drain facility; and about 20 million yen for the demolition of the staff lodgings and site maintenance in Ueno. 
(3) Land acquisition cost for Phase 2 construction of the Kansai-kan
For the land acquisition stated above, which has been undertaken since FY2002, about 420 million yen was allocated. 

(Accounts Division, Administrative Department)

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*The Kansai-kan was completed in FY2002