National Diet Library Newsletter

ISSN 1344-7238

*PDF files are stored in the NDL Digital Collections.

• Selections from NDL collection
  • Material recently designated as a national important cultural property:
    Shinshū jōdo ōjōden [PDF: 412KB]
  • Taketori Monogatari [PDF: 168KB]
• Articles by NDL staff
  • "Clairvoyant ability" - was it true?
    From Kaleidoscope of Books (13) "Senrigan Affair and Its Time" [PDF: 424KB]
  • NDL's Digital Collection and Service for Information Access [PDF: 234KB]
• Events
  • The 32nd Mutual Visit Program between the National Diet Library and the National Library of China [PDF: 405KB]
  • NDL Database Forum in the Tokyo Main Library and in the Kansai-kan [PDF: 697KB]
• News from NDL
  • New methods for acquisition and provision of doctoral dissertations [PDF: 796KB]
  • The NDL completed the development of the Historical Recordings Collection [PDF: 76KB]
  • The NDL's action for the new Nippon Cataloging Rules (NCR) [PDF: 82KB]
• Selected list of articles from NDL periodicals
  • The NDL Monthly Bulletin [PDF: 182KB]

• Selections from NDL collection
  • Tofu Hyakuchin: A Hundred Delicacies of Tofu -Enjoying taste of Edo [PDF: 382KB]
• Events
  • ILCL events for children during the summer vacation [PDF: 338KB]
  • The NDL participated in the exhibition in IFLA 2013 Singapore [PDF: 183KB]
• Articles by NDL staff
  • E-legal deposit of online publications started [PDF: 107KB]
  • Exhibition at the International Library of Children’s Literature “World Through Picture Books - Librarians’ favourite books from their country” [PDF: 302KB]
  • Digital collection strategies at the National Diet Library (Paper presented at IFLA/WLIC 2013, National Library Section) [PDF: 557KB]
  • Anticipatory Research of the National Diet (Parliamentary) Library Japan: A Major Research Resource for the Diet (Paper submitted to IFLA/WLIC 2013, Library and Research Services for Parliaments Section) [PDF: 297KB]
• Selected list of articles from NDL periodicals
  • The NDL Monthly Bulletin [PDF: 113KB]

• Selections from NDL collection
  • Speech manuscripts of Ishibashi Tanzan: His political belief when he became the 55th Prime Minister of Japan [PDF: 624KB]
• Events
  • Symposium commemorating official launch of the Great East Japan Earthquake Archive [PDF: 280KB]
  • The 16th Mutual Visit Program between the National Diet Library and the National Library of Korea [PDF: 397KB]
• Articles by NDL staff
  • The English version of the Digital Library from the Meiji Era and the NDL Digitized Contents are released [PDF: 330KB]
• Budget
  • NDL budget for fiscal year (FY) 2013 [PDF: 196KB]
• News from NDL
  • Mission and Objectives 2012-2016 and Strategic Goals [PDF: 149KB]
  • The NDL will participate in the exhibition in IFLA 2013 Singapore [PDF: 79KB]
• Selected list of articles from NDL periodicals
  • The NDL Monthly Bulletin [PDF: 119KB]

• Selections from NDL collection
  • Haetori-de : the time Kodomo no Kuni reflects [PDF: 336KB]
• Events
  • The Japan Specialist Workshop 2013 Symposium "Why support for overseas Japanese Studies now?" [PDF: 225KB]
  • Lecture by Ms. Cornelia Diebel from the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, "Acquiring Digital Information and Metadata concerning E-legal Deposit" [PDF: 749KB]
• Articles by NDL staff
  • Acquisition of Doctoral Dissertations in Japan [PDF: 79KB]
• News from NDL
  • Results of the user questionnaire survey FY2012 now available on the NDL website [PDF: 104KB]
• Selected list of articles from NDL periodicals
  • The NDL Monthly Bulletin [PDF: 124KB]

• Events
  • Lecture and discussion by Mr. John Wilkin, Executive Director of HathiTrust, "HathiTrust: Strategies and challenges in consolidating the digitized published record” [PDF: 187KB]
• Articles by NDL staff
  • Exhibition “Japan and the West―Intersection of Images” [PDF: 809KB]
• Statistics
  • NDL Statistics FY2011－NDL in figures－ excerpts from the Annual Report of the NDL [PDF: 152KB]
• News from NDL
  • Full-scale operation of the NDL Great East Japan Earthquake Archive "HINAGIKU" started [PDF: 169KB]
  • Revised Copyright Act regarding the Transmission of NDL Digitized Contents to Libraries Comes into Effect [PDF: 76KB]
  • 252 persons’ portrait photographs added to the digital exhibition “Portraits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures” [PDF: 316KB]
  • Online Gallery “Children’s Books in the Victorian Era: from the Winnington-Ingram Collection” now available [PDF: 932KB]
• Selected list of articles from NDL periodicals
  • The NDL Monthly Bulletin [PDF: 142KB]

• Articles by NDL staff
  • Marking the 10th Anniversary of the Kansai-kan [PDF 1.59MB]
• 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]