National Diet Library Newsletter
No. 186, December 2012
National Diet Library Monthly Bulletin
(Kokuritsu Kokkai Toshokan Geppo)
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No. 620, November 2012 [PDF Format, 7.05MB]
- Book of the month - from NDL collections
Movies recorded on paper: novelization of the Taisho era film serials - Libraries now in the areas stricken by the Great East Japan Earthquake
- Stepping forward: a report about salvaging materials damaged in the Great East Japan Earthquake
- About support for recovery of local documents held by Rikuzentakata city library damaged by the Great East Japan Earthquake
- Exhibition "Japan and the West -Intersection of Images"
- Collection of a noted antiquarian: Negishi Takeka and the Kabutoyama bunko －the collection has now been added to the NDL Digitized Contents
- <Announcements>
- Library services at the year-end and New Year
- Lecture "HathiTrust: Strategies and challenges in consolidating the digitized published record"
- Exhibition at the International Library of Children's Literature "St. Nicholas – the juvenile magazine that gathered together the children of the world"
- Book notice - publications from NDL
No. 619, October 2012 [PDF, 4.28MB]
- Book of the month - from NDL collections
Genshibukkyō no jissen tetsugaku Doctoral dissertation by Tetsuro Watsuji, from the collections of the Kansai-kan - Focus: Kansai-kan of the National Diet Library
- Marking the 10th Anniversary of the Kansai-kan
- "100 years of libraries in the Kansai Region and 10 years of the Kansai-kan":
Exhibition at the Kansai-kan commemorating the 10th anniversary
Things you didn’t know about the footsteps of the libraries in the Kansai Region - Let’s practice your technique and knowledge in training programs of the NDL!
- Materials recently designated as rare books : 46th committee on designation of rare books
- Material recently designated as a national important cultural property : Shakushiōrai
- <Announcements>
- Discontinuance of reader service of original materials because of digitization
- Library Fair & Forum 2012
- Exhibition "Japan and the West — Intersection of Images"
- Small exhibition in the Kansai-kan（ 12） "Romance of the Three Kingdoms, transcending cultures and centuries"
- Lecture at the International Library of Children’s Literature "Current status of children's reading activities in China: told by Mr. Peng Yi"
- Tour: how to use the Tokyo Main Library
- Training program for librarians in charge of services for persons with disabilities 2012
- Research Material Regeneration of Japan through Technology and Culture published
- Book notice - Publications from NDL