No. 189, June 2013

• Selections from NDL Collection
  • Haetori-de : the time Kodomo no Kuni reflects
• Events
  • The Japan Specialist Workshop 2013 Symposium "Why support for overseas Japanese Studies now?"
  • Lecture by Ms. Cornelia Diebel from the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, "Acquiring Digital Information and Metadata concerning E-legal Deposit"
• Article
  • Acquisition of Doctoral Dissertations in Japan
• News from NDL
  • Results of the user questionnaire survey FY2012 now available on the NDL website
• Selected List of Articles from NDL Periodicals
  • The NDL Monthly Bulletin

No. 188, April 2013

• Events
  • Lecture and discussion by Mr. John Wilkin, Executive Director of HathiTrust, "HathiTrust: Strategies and challenges in consolidating the digitized published record”
• Article
  • Exhibition “Japan and the West―Intersection of Images”
• Statistics
  • NDL Statistics FY2011－NDL in figures－ excerpts from the Annual Report of the NDL
• News from NDL
  • Full-scale operation of the NDL Great East Japan Earthquake Archive "HINAGIKU" started
  • Revised Copyright Act regarding the Transmission of NDL Digitized Contents to Libraries Comes into Effect
  • 252 persons’ portrait photographs added to the digital exhibition “Portraits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures”
  • Online Gallery “Children’s Books in the Victorian Era: from the Winnington-Ingram Collection” now available
• Selected List of Articles from NDL Periodicals
  • The NDL Monthly Bulletin

No. 187, February 2013

• Article
  • Marking the 10th Anniversary of the Kansai-kan  [PDF 1,672KB]
• Selections from NDL Collection
  • Genshi Bukkyō no Jissen Tetsugaku - Doctoral dissertation of Tetsuro Watsuji (an example of the collection of the Kansai-kan) [PDF 791KB]
• Events
  • The 31st Mutual Visit Program between the National Diet Library and the National Library of China [PDF 348KB]
  • The 4th Mutual Visit Program between the National Diet Library, the National Assembly Library of Korea and the National Assembly Research Service [PDF 430KB]
• News from NDL
  • Conservation work begins on local documents damaged by the Great East Japan Earthquake [PDF 491KB]
• Selected List of Articles from NDL Periodicals
  • The NDL Monthly Bulletin [PDF 161KB]