National Diet Library Newsletter
No. 171, Feb. 2010
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NDL Statistics FY2008
NDL in figures- excerpts from the Annual Report of the NDL
This article is a translation of the article in Japanese of the same title in the NDL Monthly Bulletin No. 584 (November 2009).
The following figures show the main statistics of the NDL activities, services and organization, excerpted from the Annual Report of the National Diet Library FY2008 (Japanese only).
These are some important figures on the NDL (as of March 31, 2009).
Contents
Personnel, Finances and Facilities
- Cost of acquiring materials: about 2,630 million yen
of which compensation for publications deposit: about 390 million yen
- Total budget and settlement of accounts
Budget: about 21.783 billion yen
Settlement of accounts: about 21.640 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: 908 (male 49%, female 51%)
- Proportion of women in Senior Specialist and managerial posts is 31%.
- 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 (International Library of Childrens Literature): 1,027m2- The Tokyo Main Library has nine Special Materials Rooms and six Reading Rooms.
Acquisition, cataloging and preservation
- Number of materials newly acquired in FY2008: 1,143,618 items
- Books: 247,083 volumes
- Periodicals and newspapers: 634,574 items
- Non-book materials: 261,961 items
- Microfilms and microfiches: 171,235
- Visual materials: 15,209
- Recorded materials: 16,357
- Machine-readable materials (CDs, DVDs, etc.): 10,472
- Maps: 17,077
- Doctoral dissertations: 17,380
- Manuscripts: 3,453
- Braille resources and large print editions: 1,061
- etc..
- Websites (WARP): 2,788 titles
- In addition to books and periodicals, we collect materials of other kinds. Since FY2002, we have also been collecting Internet information including websites of public institutions and events.
- International exchange
- Acquisition
- Books: 4,633 volumes
- Periodicals: 2,202 titles
- Non-book materials: 7,721 items
- Delivery
- Books: 22,424 volumes
- Periodicals: 11,832 titles
- Non-book materials: 2,911 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 955 institutions in 157 nations and two regions.
- Microfilming
- Microfilms: 3,446 reels
- Microfiches: 93,144 sheets
- We microfilm materials and serve them to users in place of originals so that we can prevent original materials from deteriorating.
- Cataloging: 1,472,532 data
- Books: 188,182
- Periodicals and newspapers: 5,628
- Non-book materials: 531,934
- Japanese Periodicals Index: 751,908
- 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.
- Data updating of periodicals and newspapers (title change etc.): 14,757
- Collections: 35,648,652 items
- Books: 9,290,198 volumes
- Periodicals and newspapers: 13,091,355 items
- Non-book materials: 13,267,099 items
- Microforms: 8,745,523
- Visual materials: 248,645
- Recorded materials: 631,963
- Machine-readable materials (CDs, DVDs, etc.): 86,178
- Maps: 525,912
- Doctoral dissertations: 506,817
- Manuscripts: 295,053
- Braille resources and large print editions: 29,304
- 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: 24,133,343 items
- Kansai-kan of the NDL: 10,284,606 items
- ILCL: 451,211 items
- Websites (WARP): 19,665 titles
Services available on NDL website
- Bibliographic data searchable on the NDL-OPAC and NDL Asian Language Materials OPAC: 9,984,742 records
- Japanese Periodicals Index: 9,326,654 articles
- NDL-OPAC is the National Diet Library Online Public Access Catalog.
- Japanese Periodicals Index: 9,326,654 articles
- Titles available on the Digital Library from the Meiji Era: 101,375 titles (148,134 volumes)
- 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: 31,980,521 (87,618 per day)
- Online catalogs, various databases such as Full-text Database System for the Minutes of the Diet, and search guides which help you find information are available via the NDL website.
- Bibliographic data searchable on the Union Catalog of Children's Literature: 753,768 records
- Number of new data: 14,934
- Provides holding data and specialized information (synopsis, bibliographic notes and prize information) by participation of major related institutions in Japan.
- Number of new data: 14,934
Services for the National Diet
- Research on request: 46,664 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: 10,431 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
- 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.
Services for the public
- On-site users: 651,898 people
- Tokyo Main Library: 457,140
- Kansai-kan of the NDL: 58,977
- ILCL: 135,781
- The Tokyo Main Library and the Kansai-kan both opened 278 days and the ILCL opened 286 days in FY2008.
- Reference services: 554,903 casess
- Tokyo Main Library: 494,152
- Kansai-kan of the NDL: 53,953
- ILCL: 6,798
- We provide services orally or by documents and telephone.
- Reading services: 2,552,315 items
- Tokyo Main Library: 2,408,264
- Kansai-kan of the NDL: 105,589
- ILCL: 38,462
- Reading services requested on-site.
- Guided tours: 6,187 participants
- Tokyo Main Library: 2,022
- Kansai-kan of the NDL: 2,107
- ILCL: 2,058
- 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: 28,870 items
- Tokyo Main Library: 12,919
- Kansai-kan of the NDL: 3,310
- ILCL: 12,641
- Including interlibrary loans to other libraries, Book Sets Lending Service to School Libraries, loan services for exhibitions
- Photoduplication requests from remote users: 287,224 cases
- Tokyo Main Library: 160,119
- Kansai-kan of the NDL: 125,842
- ILCL: 1,263
- Photoduplication service available via the website and others without visiting the NDL.
- On-site photoduplication requests: 888,496 cases
- Tokyo Main Library: 811,015
- Kansai-kan of the NDL: 70,183
- ILCL: 7,298
*The statistics from FY2002 to FY2007 are available in the past newsletter articles.
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