National Diet Library Newsletter
No. 177, April 2011
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Japan Specialist Workshop:
Access to the culture and the society
of contemporary Japan 2011
Trainees with Dr. Nagao, the Librarian (center),
and Mr. Yoshinaga, the Deputy Librarian (center left)
The National Diet Library (NDL) jointly hosted the Japan Specialist Workshop: Access to the culture and the society of contemporary Japan 2011 with the International House of Japan (IHJ) in Tokyo February 14-21. Nine trainees joined from eight countries: Australia, France, Germany, the Republic of Korea, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland and the United States. The program consisted of classroom lectures (Feb. 14-16, 21), research visits to libraries, archives, museums and other academic institutions, and a debriefing session on the research visits.
It is a revised version of the training program for Japanese specialist librarians which had been run jointly with Japan Foundation between 2002 and 2007. Unlike the older one, the new program is intended for researchers of Japanese studies along with librarians and is meant to be a 3-year span project; one-week training program to improve information search in the field of social science was provided in the first year, to be followed by a similar one in humanities next year. In the third year, there is to be a symposium to report on the post-training activities of the participants.
The contents of the program were as follows:
| Date | Subject |
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| February 14 | Orientation Recent trend of Japanese studies Courtesy call on the Librarian of the NDL Reception |
| February 15 | Introductory guide to social science research: primary tools and methodology Legal research tools and methodology |
| February 16 | Economic research tools and methodology Social science research tools and methodology Political / Administrative research tools and methodology |
| February 17 | Research visit to libraries, archives, museums and other academic institutions |
| February 18 | Research visits to libraries, archives, museums and other academic institutions |
| February 19 | Debriefing session on the research visits |
| February 20 | A day off |
| February 21 | Social science and the internet in Japan Opinion exchange on the 2011-12 training program Awarding certificates |
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