Opening Session

The 29th mutual visit program of the National Diet Library (NDL) and the National Library of China (NLC) was held in Beijing from November 23 to 30, 2010. Headed by Mr. Hirofumi Yamaguchi, Senior Specialist, Research and Legislative Reference Bureau of the NDL, the delegation consisted of the following other four members: Mr. Kazuto Yamaguchi, Specialist, Interdisciplinary Research Service, Research and Legislative Reference Bureau, Mr. Kazuharu Honda, Director, Electronic Information Services Division, Research and Legislative Reference Bureau, Mr. Yoshihiko Tanaka, Senior Researcher, Politics and Parliamentary Affairs Research Service, Research and Legislative Reference Bureau and Ms. Tomoko Kato, Domestic Materials Division, Acquisitions and Bibliography Department (interpreter).

The theme of this year’s program was “Research and reference service of national libraries for legislative and administrative bodies.”

In each session, detailed presentations were made on the system, organization, operation and digital information services related to the legislative support service of both libraries, and questions and answers were actively exchanged.

NDL delegation in front of the NLC building

In the latter part of the program, the delegation received explanations about the services of the Library and the Information Center of the National People’s Congress, and visited the NLC Branch at the Central Institute of Socialism, the National Science Library, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NSLC) and the Chinese Academy of Social Science in terms of information services for the government body. They also visited the Shanghai Academy of Social Science to have a briefing on the support service for the Shanghai city government.

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