National Diet Library Newsletter
No.180, December 2011
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Organizational Restructuring enacted
in the National Diet Library
The fiscal year 2011 saw a large-scale reorganization of the NDL in April and October. The purpose was to better equip the Library to fulfill the role stipulated in the National Diet Library Law in the advanced information society. In terms of scale and significance, it is comparable to the establishment of the Kansai-kan and International Library of Children's Literature in 2002 and the merger of Acquisitions Department and Bibliographic Department into the Acquisitions and Bibliography Department in 2008.
On April 1, a part of the Research and Legislative Reference Bureau was reorganized to set up the Research Cooperation Division which is tasked with strengthening the coordination with universities, research institutes and academics so that they can acquire publications and information on a wider scale and make them available for the Diet. On October 1, the Digital Information Department was newly established and the Public Service Department and Reference and Special Collections Department were merged to form the Reader Services and Collections Department.
Following the organizational restructuring, NDL now comprised of 1 bureau and 4 departments in the Tokyo Main Library, 6 divisions in the Kansai-kan, 3 divisions in the ILCL and 27 branch libraries in the executive and judicial agencies. Please refer to the new organization chart.
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