National Diet Library Newsletter
No. 180, December 2011
Selected list of articles from NDL periodicals (Text in Japanese)
National Diet Library Monthly Bulletin
(Kokuritsu Kokkai Toshokan Geppo)
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No. 608, November 2011 [PDF Format, 4.61MB]
- Book of the month - from NDL collections
Kashi: special edition written and produced by Izuru Shinmura - Materials recently designated as rare books: 45th committee on designation of rare books
- Universal access to all knowledge: lecture by Mr. Brewster Kahle
- From Exhibition "Graphic magazines in Meiji, Taisho and Showa Eras" Modern printing technology (1) Line engraving (relief printing) and wood engraving
- Essay on languages (10) Declension
- <Announcements>
- More digital contents now available: digitized Ishinomaki Hibi Shimbun extra edition and 340 thousand digitized materials
- Japanese National Bibliography to be renewed
- ILCL Research Series launched
- Bibliographic data of books in Indonesian and Malay added to the NDL Asian Language Materials OPAC
No. 607, October 2011 [PDF Format, 3.41MB]
- Book of the month － from NDL collections
Mimpo: official organ of the Chinese United League published in Tokyo - Supporting reconstruction of libraries: after the Great Earthquake
- Reorganization in FY2011
- The NDL in figures: from the Annual Report of the NDL, FY2010
- 50 years of the Tokyo Main Library
- Essay on languages (9) Adopting foreign words
- <Announcements>
- Minutes of the Imperial Diet are available from the Index Database to Japanese Laws, Regulations and Bills
- Small exhibition in the Kansai-kan (10) "Guide to railroad travels"
- Lecture at the International Library of Children's Literature "Children's books in the Occupation Period: from the Gordon W. Prange Collection"
No. 606, September 2011 [PDF Format, 3.23MB]
- Book of the month － from NDL collections
Bujun Toshokanpo: a library in a coal-mining town - Handing down the history of music
- Toshiaki Okubo: an essay
- Great Kanto earthquake of 1923 and the Ueno Library
- Essay on languages (8) Japanese spelling of foreign words
- On-site user services will be renewed
- <NDL NEWS>
- Cooperative agreement for the digital archive of the Great East Japan Earthquake between the NDL and the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University
- <Announcements>
- Exhibition at the International Library of Children's Literature "Children's Books in the Victorian Era: from the Winnington-Ingram Collection"
- Guidelines for digitization of materials 2011 published