• Libraries - A Voyage of Discovery: World Library and Information Congress - Participating in the 71st IFLA General Conference
  • Meeting of CDNL, Bibliotheca Universalis meeting and National Libraries Section: Challenges of national libraries in the digital environment
  • Library and Research Services for Parliaments Section: Reaffirmed importance of exact awareness of Diet Members' needs
  • Meeting of PAC Directors and meetings related to the Preservation and Conservation Section: "Prevention" rather than   "Repair" Epreventive conservation in practice
  • Meetings related to the Bibliography and Cataloging Sections: Toward further internationalization and standardization
  • Libraries for Children and Young Adults Section: 50th anniversary Elearning from history and opening the way to the future
  • Sketch of Oslo
• Agreement signed between the Koninklijke Bibliotheek and the NDL related article
• Liaison meeting with staff of prefectural assembly libraries in FY 2005
• FY2005 meeting between NDL Librarian and directors of university libraries
• The Collaborative Reference Database Project: 
  • Guidelines on data producing and publishing
  • 1st workshop on the Collaborative Reference Database System
• <Invitation>
  • Symposium open to the public: Library reformation in digital era - challenges and prospects
• <Announcement>
  • Collaborative Reference Database open to the pubic    *Japanese only
  • Full version of the Electronic Exhibition "Fauna and Flora in Illustrations - Natural History of the Edo era" available *Japanese only
  • "National Diet Library Digitization Handbook" available
  • Book Sets Lending Service to School Libraries of the International Library of Children's Literature: lending out of  Asia set (China, Southeast Asia) starts
  • Lectures related to the exhibition at the International Library of Children's Literature: Struwwelpeter and other German children's books 
  • Retrospective data of the Japanese Periodicals Index added to the NDL-OPAC
  • A new series "Collections of the Kansai-kan" will start soon! 

• The first three years of the Kansai-kan
• Books for all children: report of the exhibitions and symposium on books for children with disabilities at the International Library of Children's Literature 
• International Policy Seminar: Present situation and future issues of the EU, with a focus on the economic matters -  Lecture titled "Main issues of the EU economy" by Prof. Corrado Molteni from the University of Milan
• Materials recently designated as rare and semi-rare books - Report of the 37th committee on the designation of rare books 

Japanese Books / Newspapers and Magazines / Western Books

• <announcement>
  • Event related to the exhibition at the International Library of Children's Literature: Palette of Dream Colours II - Noma Concours for Picture Book Illustrations from Asia, Africa and Latin America 
  • Exhibition at the International Library of Children's Literature: Struwwelpeter and other German children's books 
  • Bibliographic information of newspapers in the Prange Collection available on the Union Catalog of Newspapers in Japan Database    *Japanese only 
• Spirit of the Meiji era Ecartoons and caricatures (Enchanting world of books EGuide to regular exhibition, 16)     related webpage (Japanese only)