This article is a translation of the article in Japanese of the same title
in the NDL Monthly Bulletin No. 595 (October 2010).

The following figures show the main statistics of the NDL activities, services and organization, excerpted from the Annual Report of the National Diet Library FY2009 (Japanese only).

These are some important figures on the NDL (as of March 31, 2010).

Contents

• Personnel, Finances and Facilities
• Acquisition, cataloging and preservation
• Services available on the NDL website
• Services for the National Diet
• Services for the executive and judicial branches
• Services for the public

Personnel, Finances and Facilities

• Cost of acquiring materials: about 2,590 million yen
• of which compensation for publications deposit: about 390 million yen

• Total budget and settlement of accounts
• Budget: about 37.028 billion yen
• Settlement of accounts: about 23.546 billion yen
• The money was used for payroll, running expenses, improvement of facilities such as stacks to accommodate increasing materials in addition to acquisition of library materials.

• Number of staff: 898 (male 50%, female 50%)
• Proportion of women in Senior Specialist and managerial posts is 33%.

• 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 Children’s Literature): 1,027m²
• The Tokyo Main Library has nine Special Materials Rooms and six Reading Rooms.

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Acquisition, cataloging and preservation

• Number of materials newly acquired in FY2009: 1,015,457 items
• Books: 228,720 volumes
• Periodicals and newspapers: 628,886 items
• Non-book materials: 157,851 items

• Microfilms and microfiches: 63,718
• Visual materials: 10,982
• Recorded materials: 15,217
• Machine-readable materials (CDs, DVDs, etc.): 10,088
• Maps: 9,094
• Doctoral dissertations: 17,982
• Manuscripts: 19,712
• Braille resources and large print editions: 1,019
• etc..

• Websites (WARP): 2,228 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 and non-book materials: 12,582 items
• Periodicals: 2,286 titles

• Delivery
• Books and non-book materials: 31,447 items
• Periodicals: 10,362 titles

• In accordance with two conventions of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), we exchange publications with 967 institutions in 158 nations and two regions, and 34 international organizations.

• Media conversion
• Digitization: 156,955 volumes
• Microfilming: 1,368 items

• We convert media by digitization and other methods and serve them to users in place of originals so that we can prevent original materials from deteriorating.

• Cataloging: 1,118,903 data
• Books: 216,827
• Periodicals and newspapers: 3,762
• Non-book materials: 484,597
• Japanese Periodicals Index: 413,717
  • 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.): 51,279

• Collections: 36,617,299 items
• Books: 9,496,680 volumes
• Periodicals and newspapers: 13,701,333 items
• Non-book materials: 13,419,286 items
  • Microforms: 8,805,034
  • Visual materials: 259,604
  • Recorded materials: 647,177
  • Machine-readable materials (CDs, DVDs, etc.): 96,061
  • Maps: 534,486
  • Doctoral dissertations: 524,794
  • Manuscripts: 314,765
  • Braille resources and large print editions: 30,323
  • 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: 24,437,308 items
• Kansai-kan of the NDL: 10,990,497 items
• ILCL: 470,855 items

• Websites (WARP): 22,002 titles

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Services available on NDL website

• Bibliographic data searchable on the NDL-OPAC and NDL Asian Language Materials OPAC: 10,691,597 records
• Japanese Periodicals Index: 9,737,091 articles
• NDL-OPAC is the National Diet Library Online Public Access Catalog.

• Titles available on the Digital Library from the Meiji Era: 108,224 titles (155,871 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: 29,442,241 (80,664 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: 791,884 records
• Number of newly added titles: 40,036
• Provides holding data and specialized information (synopsis, bibliographic notes and prize information) by participation of major related institutions in Japan.

• Bibliographic data searchable on the National Union Catalog Network System: 41,959,255 records
• Number of member libraries: 1,110
• Provides data of Japanese books held by NDL, prefectural libraries and major municipal libraries in Japan.

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Services for the National Diet

• Research on request: 41,877 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

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Services for the executive and judicial branches

• Loan services: 10,580 items
• Based on the Branch Libraries System, there are branch libraries of the NDL in the government ministries and agencies and the Supreme Court. 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

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Services for the public

• On-site users: 663,504 people
• Tokyo Main Library: 473,927
• Kansai-kan of the NDL: 62,207
• ILCL: 127,370
• The Tokyo Main Library and the Kansai-kan both opened 279 days and the ILCL opened 285 days in FY2009.

• Reference services: 530,604 cases
• Tokyo Main Library: 470,100
• Kansai-kan of the NDL: 49,874
• ILCL: 10,630
• We provide services orally or by documents and telephone.

• Reading services: 2,595,663 items
• Tokyo Main Library: 2,436,718
• Kansai-kan of the NDL: 118,365
• ILCL: 40,580
• Reading services requested on-site.

• Guided tours: 6,981 participants
• Tokyo Main Library: 3,023
• Kansai-kan of the NDL: 1,745
• ILCL: 2,213
• 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: 28,181 items
• Tokyo Main Library: 12,441
• Kansai-kan of the NDL: 5,540
• ILCL: 10,200
• Including interlibrary loans to other libraries, Book Sets Lending Service to School Libraries, loan services for exhibitions

• Photoduplication requests from remote users: 258,403 cases
• Tokyo Main Library: 142,825
• Kansai-kan of the NDL: 114,390
• ILCL: 1,188
• Photoduplication service available via the website and others without visiting the NDL.

• On-site photoduplication requests: 875,155 cases
• Tokyo Main Library: 792,754
• Kansai-kan of the NDL: 74,396
• ILCL: 8,005

*The statistics from FY2002 to FY2008 are available in the past newsletter articles.

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