No. 573, December 2008 [PDF Format, 6.04MB]

• Talks with the Librarian of NDL (3) Dr. Deanna B. Marcum, Associate Librarian for Library Services, Library of Congress
  The role and future of libraries
• Libraries without borders: Navigating towards global understanding
  World Library and Information Congress: The 74th International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) General Conference and Council
  • Evaluation in national libraries and utilization of performance indicators - National Libraries Section
  • Partners in democracy - Library and Research Services for Parliaments Section
  • Issues on preservation in the 21st century - IFLA Core Activity on Preservation and Conservation (PAC), Preservation and Conservation Section and related sessions
  • Drawing up standards for bibliographic information and digital libraries - Cataloguing Section
  • Development of services for young adults - Libraries for Children and Young Adults Section
• Global cooperation in the age of electronic information - The 35th Conference of Directors of National Libraries (CDNL)
• The NDL in figures - excerpts from the Annual Report of the NDL
• Series commemorating the NDL’s 60th anniversary
  • “1998-2008” Topics during the last decade and future prospects (7) Evolving exhibitions and subject information services
• 43rd committee on designation of rare books - materials recently designated as rare books related article
• People who use, people who maintain (11) Books (adhesive-bound materials)
• <Announcement>
  • Open seminar: Cataloging of now and in future - perspectives from the age of “crisis in cataloging”
  • International Library of Children's Literature’s Book Set Lending Service to School Libraries: “East Asia” and “South-East Asia and South Asia” sets now available

No. 572, November 2008 [PDF Format, 5.38MB]

• Talks with the Librarian of NDL (2) Mr. Koichi KABAYAMA, Director of the Printing Museum, Tokyo
  Human intellectual property and libraries
• Exhibition in the Monthly Bulletin
  • World of Illustrations for Children: Picture Magazines and Their Artists
• Series commemorating the NDL’s 60th anniversary
  • “1998-2008” Topics during the last decade and future prospects (6) Bibliographic information in the digital age – ten years of catalogs
    related article
• People who use, people who maintain (10) Copying
• Keeping pests out or down – integrated pest management in libraries: Report of the 19th forum on preservation
• <Announcement>
  • Five hundred titles added to the Digital Library of Children's Literature
  • Library services at the year-end and New Year

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