Total budget and settlement of accounts

• Budget: about 24.238 billion yen
• Settlement of accounts: about 22.312 billion yen
  • - Amount brought forward: about 3.3847 billion yen
  • - Amount carried forward: about 392 million yen

Number of staff: 890 people

• Male 50%
• Female 50%

Proportion of women in Senior Specialist and managerial posts is 30%.

Cost of acquiring materials: about 2.41 billion yen

• Compensation for publications deposit: about 390 million yen

Total floor area: 215,166 m²

• Tokyo Main Library: 147,853m²
• Detached Library in the Diet: 1,331m²
• Kansai-kan of the NDL: 59,311m²
• International Library of Children’s Literature (ILCL): 6,671m²

Storage space: 104,106 m²

• Tokyo Main Library: 78,046m²
• Detached Library in the Diet: 609m²
• Kansai-kan of the NDL: 23,926m²
• ILCL: 1,525m²

Reading space: 24,837 m²

• Tokyo Main Library: 18,983m²
  • - The Tokyo Main Library has nine Special Materials Rooms and six Reading Rooms
• Detached Library in the Diet: 562m²
• Kansai-kan of the NDL: 4,265m²
• ILCL: 1,027m²

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Newly accessioned materials: 962,058 items

• Books: 204,047 items
• Periodicals and newspapers: 589,232 items
• Non-book materials: 168,779 items
  • - Microforms: 99,783 items
  • - Visual materials: 9,053 items
  • - Recorded materials: 11,450 items
  • - Machine-readable materials (CDs, DVDs, etc.): 10,071 items
  • - Maps: 3,919 items
  • - Doctoral dissertations: 14,241 items
  • - Manuscripts: 13,739 items
  • - Braille resources and large print editions: 1,060 items
• Websites (Web Archiving Project): 16,648 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: 437,210 volumes

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.

Cataloging: 603,581 data

• Books: 164,452 data
• Periodicals and newspapers: 3,134 data
• Non-book materials: 47,846 data
• Japanese Periodicals Index: 388,149 data
• Data updating of periodicals and newspapers (title change, etc.): 8,404 data

We create the National Bibliography which includes titles, author names, location information, etc. and provide it to the public on our website.

Collections: 38,413,236 items

• Books: 9,887,050 items
• Periodicals and newspapers: 14,846,587 items
• Non-book materials: 13,679,599 items
  • - Microforms: 8,934,480 items
  • - Visual materials: 280,973 items
  • - Recorded materials: 669,030 items
  • - Machine-readable materials (CDs, DVDs, etc.): 110,924 items
  • - Maps: 541,404 items
  • - Doctoral dissertations: 554,697 items
  • - Manuscripts: 338,525 items
  • - Braille resources and large print editions: 32,494 items
  We collect these materials by various methods such as legal deposit, purchase, gift and exchange. The number of items by facility is as follows:
  • - Tokyo Main Library: 24,988,176 items
  • - Kansai-kan of the NDL: 12,237,768 items
  • - ILCL: 506,355 items
• Websites (Web Archiving Project): 43,965 titles

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• Research on request: 40,485 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.

• Loan services: 9,363 items

Because of our 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.

On-site users: 624,282 people

• Tokyo Main Library: 461,880 people
• Kansai-kan of the NDL: 60,580 people
• ILCL: 101,822 people

• Opening days in each facility in FY2011 were as follows:
  
  • - Tokyo Main Library: 280 days
  • - Kansai-kan of the NDL: 280 days
  • - ILCL: 286 days

Guided tours: 7,545 participants

• Tokyo Main Library: 2,770 participants
• Kansai-kan of the NDL: 2,385 participants
• ILCL: 2,390 participants

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).

Reading services: 2,262,272 items

• Tokyo Main Library: 2,118,240 items
• Kansai-kan of the NDL: 113,864 items
• ILCL: 30,168 items

On-site photoduplication requests: 910,770 cases

• Tokyo Main Library: 831,370 cases
• Kansai-kan of the NDL: 74,104 cases
• ILCL: 5,296 cases

Photoduplication requests from remote users: 244,698 cases

• Tokyo Main Library: 127,949 cases
• Kansai-kan of the NDL: 115,989 cases
• ILCL: 760 cases

Reference services: 651,109 cases

• Tokyo Main Library: 589,347 cases
• Kansai-kan of the NDL: 50,341 cases
• ILCL: 11,421 cases

Interlibrary loan service: 24,550 items

• Tokyo Main Library: 7,485 items
• Kansai-kan of the NDL: 5,033 items
• ILCL: 12,032 items

This service includes interlibrary loans to other libraries, Book Sets Lending Service to School Libraries and loan services for exhibitions.

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Access to our website: 27,876,007 accesses

• 76,164 per day on average

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 NDL Search: 70,973,194 data

A variety form of information including paper materials, digitized images/sound recordings owned by the NDL and other institutions are searchable on NDL Search. 200 kinds of databases can be searched integratedly, of which 180 kinds are operated by other institutions.

Titles available on the Digital Library from the Meiji Era

• Provided on the Internet: 167,004 items (235,022 volumes)
• Provided only on the premises: 258,061 items (335,230 volumes)

Digitized images of books from the NDL collection which were published in the Meiji (1868-1912) and Taisho (1912-1926) eras are provided.

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