News on International Cooperation

This section summarizes news on international cooperation such as international conferences attended by National Diet Library staff, and National Diet Library's international exchange activities.

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A webinar entitled The Role of Libraries in Implementing Inclusive Information Society – Centered on the National Library for the Disabled – was given by Mr. Jang BoSeong of the Material Development Department of the National Library for the Disabled, Republic of Korea. The program and lecture materials for this webinar are available on the Events page.

Tools of the Trade Conference: The Way Forward, the annual meetings of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), the Council on East Asian Libraries (CEAL), and the meeting of the North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources (NCC) were held in Boston and Cambridge, USA.

Mr. HYUGA Tomoaki, assistant director of the Branch Libraries and Cooperation Division in the Administrative Department, Ms. FUKUYAMA Juri of the Modern Japanese Political Documents Division in the Reader Services and Collections Department, and Mr. ONUMA Tahee, assistant director of the Digital Information Planning Division in the Digital Information Department, attended the conferences.

And Ms. OGAWA Kanako of the Branch Libraries and Cooperation Division in the Administrative Department and other three employees attended the online annual meeting of the AAS from February 17 to 18.

In the Tools of the Trade Conference, Mr. ONUMA made the following three presentations.
Vision 2021-2025: The “Digital Shift” at the National Diet Library, Japan (PDF: 299KB)
New Features of Digital Services at the NDL (PDF: 1.83MB)
NDL Ngram Viewer and Next Digital Library (PDF: 466KB)

For information on the CEAL and NCC, see Links: International library organizations related with the National Diet Library.

The Bologna Children’s Book Fair was held in Bologna, Italy. Mr. TSUBOI Nobuki of the Planning and Cooperation Division at the International Library of Children's Literature attended the conference.

Mr. Chongyul Yi, director-general for Region-based Culture Policy, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MCST), Republic of Korea, visited the NDL.

An online meeting of Conference of Directors of National Libraries (CDNL) was held. The subject of this conference was New National Libraries: Co-Designing services for Citizens. NDL Director General YOSHINAGA Motonobu participated in the conference. For more information about the CDNL, please see Links: International library organizations related with the National Diet Library.