National Diet Library Newsletter
No. 166, April 2009
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NDL Statistics FY2007
This article is a translation of the article in Japanese of
the same title in the NDL Monthly Bulletin No. 573 (December 2008).
The following figures show the main statistics of the NDL activities, services and organization, excerpted from the Annual Report of the National Diet Library FY2007 (Japanese only).
Please have a look at some important figures on the NDL.
Contents
Personnel, Finance and Facility
- Cost of acquiring materials: about 2,630 million yen
- of which compensations for publications deposit: about 390 million yen
- Total budget and settlement of accounts
- Budget: about 22.873 billion yen
- Settlement of accounts: about 22.305 billion yen
- The amount was used for payroll, running expenses, construction of stacks to accommodate increasing materials and land purchase in addition to acquisition of library materials.
- Number of staff: 904 (male 452, female 452)
- of which 126 in Kansai-kan of the NDL, 36 in the International Library of Children´s Literature (ILCL)
Proportion of women in Senior Specialist and managerial posts is 28%.
- Total area of reading rooms: 24,837m2
- Tokyo Main Library: 18,983m2
- Detached Library in the Diet: 562m2
- Kansai-kan of the NDL: 4,265m2
- ILCL: 1,027m2
- The Tokyo Main Library has nine Special Materials Rooms and six Reading Rooms.
Acquisition, processing and preservation
- Number of materials newly acquired in FY2007: 1,266,018 items
- Books: 225,345 volumes
- Periodicals and newspapers: 646,809 items
- Non-book materials: 253,864 items
- Microfilms and microfiches: 151,365
- Visual materials: 18,228
- Recorded materials: 16,745
- Machine-readable materials (CDs, DVDs, etc.): 9,898
- Maps:13,031
- Doctoral dissertations: 17,001
- Manuscripts: 15,091
- Braille resources and large print editions: 939
- etc..
- Websites (WARP): 2,188 titles
- In addition to books and periodicals, we collect various materials. Since FY2002, we have also been collecting Internet information including websites of public institutions and events.
- International exchange
- Acquisition Books: 5,901 volumes
- Periodicals: 2,360 titles
- Non-book materials: 11,102 items
- Delivery Books: 21,836 volumes
- Periodicals: 12,735 titles
- Non-book materials: 8,250 items
- In accordance with two conventions of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), we exchange official publications and other materials related to the partner countries with 944 institutions in 157 nations and two regions
- Microfilming
- Microfilms: 13,726 reels
- Microfiches: 83,345 sheets
- We microfilm materials and serve them to users in place of originals so that we can preserve original materials.
- Cataloging: 1,457,596 data
- Books: 170,381
- Periodicals: 4,439
- Newspapers: 188
- Non-book materials: 561,457
- Japanese Periodicals Index: 721,131
- We create bibliographic data such as titles, author names, etc. and location information, publish Japanese National Bibliography Weekly List (Japanese only) and make them available on our website.
- Collections: 34,730,903 items
- Books: 9,052,998 volumes
- Periodicals and newspapers: 12,474,489 items
- Non-book materials: 13,203,416 items
- Microfilms: 8,771,828
- Visual materials: 233,483
- Recorded materials: 615,622
- Machine-readable materials (CDs, DVDs, etc.): 75,919
- Maps: 509,205
- Doctoral dissertations: 489,446
- Manuscripts: 291,600
- Braille resources and large print editions: 28,247
- etc..
- We collect these materials by various methods such as legal deposit, purchase, donation and exchange.
- The number of items by facility is as follows:
- Tokyo Main Library: 23,634,000 items
- Kansai-kan of the NDL: 9,901,110 items
- ILCL: 430,380 items
- Websites (WARP): 16,877 titles
Services available on NDL website
- Bibliographic data searchable on the NDL-OPAC: 9,007,269 records
- Japanese Periodicals Index: 8,582,932 articles
- NDL-OPAC is the National Diet Library Online Public Access Catalog.
- Digital Library from the Meiji Era
- Number of titles: 96,856 titles (142,469 volumes)
- Number of titles added in FY2007: 7,412
- It provides digitized images of books from the NDL collection which were published in the Meiji (1868-1912) and Taisho (1912-1926) eras.
- Number of accesses to our website: 33,184,200 (90,667 per day)
- NDL-OPAC and other various databases are available on the NDL website.
- Union Catalog of Children's Literature
- Number of titles: 738,878 titles
- Number of titles added in FY2007: 14,860
- It provides holding data and specialized information (synopsis, bibliographic notes and prize information) by participation of major related institutions in Japan.
Services for the National Diet
- Research on request: 45,144 cases
- Based on requests for research by the Diet members and others, we conduct research on national issues and domestic and foreign affairs, analysis and evaluation of legislative bills.
- Related article: Services for the National Diet - providing legislative support
Services for the executive and judicial branches
- Loan services: 162,638 items
- Based on the Branch Libraries System, there are branch libraries of the NDL in the government ministries and agencies and the Supreme Court. Through this branch library network, we provide library services and exchange materials.
Related article: National Diet Library's network with libraries in the executive and judicial agencies: Branch Library System
Services for the public
- On-site users: 611,574 people
- Tokyo Main Library: 432,431
- Kansai-kan of the NDL: 61,336
- ILCL: 117,807
- Tokyo Main Library and the Kansai-kan opened 280 days and the ILCL opened 286 days in FY2007
- Reference services: 644,008 cases
- Tokyo Main Library: 581,745
- Kansai-kan of the NDL: 55,077
- ILCL: 7,186
- We provide services orally or by documents and telephone.
- Reading services: 2,379,816 items
- Tokyo Main Library: 2,235,867
- Kansai-kan of the NDL: 104,736
- ILCL: 39,213
- Reading services requested by on-site users.
- Guided tours: 6,588 participants
- Tokyo Main Library: 1,548
- Kansai-kan of the NDL: 2,483
- ILCL: 2,557
- To apply for guided tours, please see tours of the Tokyo Main Library, tours of the Kansai-kan and tours of the ILCL (in Japanese).
- Interlibrary loans: 30,622 items
- Tokyo Main Library: 13,364
- Kansai-kan of the NDL: 3,477
- ILCL: 13,781
- Including interlibrary loans to other libraries, Book Sets Lending Service to School Libraries, loan services for exhibitions
- Photoduplication requests from remote users: 290,505 cases
- Tokyo Main Library: 164,149
- Kansai-kan of the NDL: 120,115
- ILCL: 6,241
- Photoduplication service available via the NDL website and others without visiting the NDL.
- On-site photoduplication requests: 863,297 cases
- Tokyo Main Library: 789,102
- Kansai-kan of the NDL: 66,683
- ILCL: 7,512
*The statistics from FY2002 to FY2006 are available in the past newsletter articles
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