National Diet Library Newsletter
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The
26th Mutual Visit Program between
the National Diet Library and
the National Library of China
A National Library of
China (NLC)
delegation visited Japan
from November 14 to 21, 2006, on the 26th mutual visit program between
the NDL
and the NLC. The program started in 1981 and since then, the NDL and
the NLC have
alternated sending a group each year.
Headed by Deputy Director Mr. Zhang Yuhui, this year's delegation consisted of the following other four members: Mr. Yan Xiangdong, Director, International Cooperation Division, Mr. Wang Zhigeng, Director, Department for Serials, E-resources & Audiovisual, Ms. Shen Xiaojuan, Deputy Director, Digital Library Administrative Division, and Ms. Han Hui (interpreter), Cataloging Section for Oriental Languages, Acquisition & Cataloging Department. The theme of the 2006 program was "Library services via websites."
At the
Opening Session, each library’s
recent activities were introduced. Mr. Zhang reported in his keynote
speech, Chinese
Digital Library Project, the second-phase construction of the NLC, the
reform
of the service system, reinforcement of acquisition and preservation of
various
materials, promotion of cooperative activities in domestic and
overseas, and other
matters. Mr. Ikuhara introduced the activities and management of NDL in
this information
society.
At the
Section Meeting,
both parties had a
lively exchange of views on the theme. From the NLC, Mr. Wang showed
the NLC’s
website and the services which it provided, after explaining the NLC’s
three main
strategies (human resources, information technologies, services) and
the four
targets of service (general public, libraries, research institutes and
companies,
central government). Ms. Shen introduced the outline of the National
Digital
Library Project and its progress based on the Five Year Plan for the
Construction
of Digital Resources. She also reported the construction of a new
modern library
system which integrates the digital library system and the traditional
one.
The speaker
from the NDL,
Ms. Kitagawa introduced
methods of providing reference information via the website, for
example, "Subject
Guides" (in Japanese) and "Collaborative
Reference Database System" (in Japanese). Mr. Uetsuki
reported on
the provision of the digital archives and construction of the portal
service.
In the
latter part of the
program, the delegation
visited the Kansai-kan and had the Closing Session. To wrap up the
program, Mr.
Zhang and Mr. Ikuhara stated that they had been able to finish a
fruitful
program and had deepened mutual understanding and a friendly
relationship. The
27th program will be held at the NLC in 2007.
The
delegation also
visited the Detached
Library in the Diet, International
Library of Children's Literature, University of Tokyo
Library and Tokyo
Metropolitan
Library.
More details
of this
program have been
published in NDL Monthly Bulletin no.551,
February 2007 (in Japanese).
For reports of the past programs, please see here.
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