National Diet Library Newsletter
No. 181, February 2012
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NDL Statistics FY2010
– NDL in figures – excerpts from the Annual Report of the NDL
This article is a translation of the article in Japanese of the same title
in the NDL Monthly Bulletin No. 607 (October 2011).
The following figures show the main statistics of the NDL activities, services and organization, excerpted from the Annual Report of the National Diet Library FY2010 (Japanese only).
These are some important figures on the NDL (as of March 31, 2011).
Contents
Personnel, Finances and Facilities
- Total budget and settlement of accounts
- Budget: about 35.416 billion yen
- Settlement of accounts: about 31.723 billion yen
- Amount brought forward: about 13.2944 billion yen
- Amount carried forward: about 3.3847 billion yen
- Cost of acquiring materials: about 2.5 billion yen
- of which compensation for publications deposit: about 390 million yen
- Number of staff: 890 (male 49%, female 51%)
- Proportion of women in Senior Specialist and managerial posts is 32%.
- 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.
Acquisition, cataloging and preservation
- Number of materials newly acquired in FY2010: 936,808 items
- Books: 224,400 volumes
- Periodicals and newspapers: 597,487 items
- Non-book materials: 114,921 items
- Microforms: 41,094
- Visual materials: 12,330
- Recorded materials: 13,175
- Machine-readable materials (CDs, DVDs, etc.): 9,884
- Maps: 5,220
- Doctoral dissertations: 15,676
- Manuscripts: 10,021
- Braille resources and large print editions: 1,110
- etc…..
- Websites (Web Archiving Project): 29,869 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.
- Media conversion
- Digitization: 1,564,119 items
- Microfilming: 162 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.
- International exchange
- Acquisition
- Books and non-book materials: 5,895 items
- Periodicals and newspapers: 2,075 titles
- Delivery
- Books and non-book materials: 20,936 items
- Periodicals and newspapers: 9,556 titles
- In accordance with two conventions of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), we exchange publications with 968 institutions in 157 nations and two regions, and 34 international organizations.
- Cataloging: 690,912 data
- Books: 203,280
- Periodicals and newspapers: 3,052
- Non-book materials: 89,747
- Japanese Periodicals Index: 394,643
- We create bibliographic data such as titles, author names, location information, etc. and provide them to the public.
- Data updating of periodicals and newspapers (title change etc.): 12,005
- Collections: 37,497,260 items
- Books: 9,698,593 volumes
- Periodicals and newspapers: 14,272,111 items
- Non-book materials: 13,526,556 items
- Microforms: 8,841,588
- Visual materials: 271,928
- Recorded materials: 660,304
- Machine-readable materials (CDs, DVDs, etc.): 103,331
- Maps: 539,488
- Doctoral dissertations: 540,459
- Manuscripts: 324,786
- Braille resources and large print editions: 31,433
- 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: 25,003,304 items
- Kansai-kan of the NDL: 11,296,898 items
- ILCL: 490,301 items
- Websites (Web Archiving Project): 51,830 titles
Services available on NDL website
- Number of accesses to our website: 28,196,993 (77,252 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 NDL-OPAC and NDL Asian Language Materials OPAC: 11,034,582 records
- Japanese Periodicals Index: 10,134,061 articles
- NDL-OPAC is the National Diet Library Online Public Access Catalog.
- Bibliographic data searchable on the National Union Catalog Network System: 43,104,437 records
- Number of member libraries: 1,108
- Provides data of Japanese books held by NDL, prefectural libraries and major municipal libraries in Japan.
- Bibliographic data searchable on the Union Catalog of Children's Literature: 870,574 records
- Number of newly added titles: 85,023
- Provides holding data and specialized information (synopsis, bibliographic notes and prize information) by participation of major related institutions in Japan.
- Titles available on the Digital Library from the Meiji Era
- On the Internet: 121,091 titles (171,612 volumes)
- Only within the Library: 171,212 titles (218,875 volumes)
- Provides digitized images of books from the NDL collection which were published in the Meiji (1868-1912) and Taisho (1912-1926) eras.
Services for the National Diet
- Research on request: 37,951 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
Services for the executive and judicial branches
- Loan services: 11,161 items
- Based on the Branch Libraries System, there are branch libraries of the NDL in the government ministries and agencies and the Supreme Court, forming a library network through which 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
Services for the public
- On-site users: 647,177 people
- Tokyo Main Library: 470,833
- Kansai-kan of the NDL: 59,445
- ILCL: 116,899
- Open days in each facility in FY2010 were as follows:
Tokyo Main Library: 279 days
Kansai-kan of the NDL: 280 days
ILCL: 286 days
- Reference services: 542,288 cases
- Tokyo Main Library: 478,544
- Kansai-kan of the NDL: 49,269
- ILCL: 14,475
- We provide services orally or by documents and telephone.
- Reading services: 2,396,181 items
- Tokyo Main Library: 2,246,856
- Kansai-kan of the NDL: 123,585
- ILCL: 25,740
- Reading services requested on-site.
- Guided tours: 7,598 participants
- Tokyo Main Library: 3,195
- Kansai-kan of the NDL: 2,005
- ILCL: 2,398
- 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: 22,657 items
- Tokyo Main Library: 9,053
- Kansai-kan of the NDL: 5,255
- ILCL: 8,349
- Including interlibrary loans to other libraries, Book Sets Lending Service to School Libraries and loan services for exhibitions.
- Photoduplication requests from remote users: 240,140 cases
- Tokyo Main Library: 120,486
- Kansai-kan of the NDL: 119,103
- ILCL: 551
- Photoduplication service available via the website and others without visiting the NDL.
- On-site photoduplication requests: 820,847 cases
- Tokyo Main Library: 743,488
- Kansai-kan of the NDL: 72,703
- ILCL: 4,656
*The statistics from FY2002 to FY2009 are available in the past newsletter articles.
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