What's New
List of What's New
- April 2, 2020News
Science and Technology Research Project reports released: "Fostering Future Researchers in Support of the Science-and-Technology-Oriented-Nation Concept," "Trends and Issues of Social Media," and "Science, Technology and Innovation Policy beyond 2020"
- April 1, 2020Publications
Selected Articles from Current Awareness, Current Awareness-E
- April 1, 2020News
YOSHINAGA Motonobu appointed new Director General of the National Diet Library
- April 1, 2020News
Smoking is prohibited on the premises.
- March 27, 2020News
Temporary Closure Extended to Wednesday, April 15, 2020
- March 25, 2020News
National Diet Library Award presented at Urban Data Challenge 2019
- March 24, 2020Other
English page of Japanese National Centre for ISSN is updated.
- March 24, 2020News
New versions of the Digital Exhibitions "Japanese Ex-libris Stamps" and "Incunabula" are now available
- March 17, 2020News
1,538 items from the collections of personal papers of political figures (Okubo Toshimichi Papers, etc.) were added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections.
- March 17, 2020News
17,600 items newly added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections
- March 16, 2020News
Temporary Closure Extended to Monday, March 30, 2020
- March 4, 2020News
Urgent Notice of Temporary Closure from March 5 to March 16
- March 2, 2020News
Temporary suspension of library services during the transfer of library materials from the Tokyo Main Library to the Kansai-kan.
- February 27, 2020News
The lecture meeting National Libraries in the digital era―focusing on the strategies of the National Library of the Netherlands scheduled for March 17, 2020, has been canceled
- February 25, 2020News
ILCL exhibition "Sports and Children's Books" will be held.（International Library of Children's Literature）
- February 19, 2020Service Stoppage
Temporary Unavailability of NDL-Bib in March 2020
- February 13, 2020Publications
NDL NEWSLETTER No. 228, UPDATE
- February 7, 2020Other
List of indexed periodicals in Japanese Periodicals Index, UPDATE February 07 (Japanese)
- February 4, 2020Publications
CDNLAO Newsletter No. 95, UPDATE
- February 4, 2020Events
From February 4 (Tue.) to March 4 (Wed.), ILCL is holding an exhibition "Books for healthy growth of children 2019: Cultural Materials (publications) of Child Welfare Recommended by Social Security Council of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare."
- February 3, 2020Events
Picture books and music for children "Five Nice Mice" will be held in the ILCL. (Japanese)
- January 31, 2020Other
The open dataset of bibliographic information of the National Diet Library Digital Collections, the list of identifiers (IDs) which collate bibliographic data in different databases, "Bibliographic Data of Japanese Publications (Most Recent Year)" and "Beta Version of International Standard Identifier for Libraries and Related Organizations (ISIL) LOD" have been updated.
- January 30, 2020News
Media Arts Database (Manga) is now available via NDL Search
- January 29, 2020Other
The latest "List of books on Japan published in Asia" is now available on the Research Navi
- January 28, 2020Publications
Books on Japan Oct.- Dec. 2019, UPDATE
- January 16, 2020Service Stoppage
Technical troubles regarding the "Contact Us" page
- January 9, 2020Events
Lecture meeting: "National Libraries in the digital era―focusing on the strategies of the National Library of the Netherlands" will be held on March 17
- January 6, 2020Other
Updates：Greetings from the Director General
- December 25, 2019Events
Lecture meeting "National Libraries in the digital era―focusing on the strategies of the National Library of the Netherlands" will be held at Tokyo Main Library on March 17, 2020 (Tue.)
- December 24, 2019News
The National Diet Library Appoints Mr. TANAKA Hisanori Deputy Director General
- December 23, 2019News
The NDL Unveils a New Search Interface for Four Databases about the National Diet
- December 20, 2019News
ILCL to sponsor an exhibition on Books for Healthy Growth of Children 2019
- December 16, 2019Publications
NDL NEWSLETTER No. 227, UPDATE
- December 4, 2019Other
The open dataset of bibliographic information for items included in the Historical Recordings Collection has been updated.
- November 28, 2019News
International Symposium on the Great East Japan Earthquake Archive FY 2019: "Facilities and archives commemorating the disaster" will be held at Tohoku University on January 11, 2020.
- November 27, 2019News
Library services at the year-end and New Year
- November 27, 2019News
Approximately 1,000 sound recordings of the Historical Recordings Collection (Rekion) are newly available online.
- November 26, 2019News
The NDL to Unveil a New Search Interface for Four Databases about the National Diet
- November 19, 2019News
International Book Data Services Launched under the Marrakesh Treaty
- November 12, 2019Other
List of indexed periodicals in Japanese Periodicals Index, UPDATE November 12 (Japanese)
- November 8, 2019News
An open house will be held at the Kansai-kan of the National Diet Library.
- November 1, 2019Publications
Selected Articles from Current Awareness-E
- October 31, 2019News
The ILCL has added new menus to its website in Simplified Chinese and Korean
- October 29, 2019Publications
Books on Japan Jul.- Sep. 2019, UPDATE
- October 23, 2019Publications
NDL NEWSLETTER No. 226, UPDATE
- October 23, 2019Other
The latest "List of books on Japan published in Asia" is now available on the Research Navi
- October 23, 2019Events
"Special event for children in Autumn" will be held in the ILCL. (Japanese)
- October 16, 2019Other
The list of online journals etc. published in Japan with ISSN, UPDATE October 16 (Japanese)
- October 15, 2019Events
On December 1 (Sun.), Lecture on Korean Picture Books: Past, Present, and the Future will be held. (Japanese)
- October 11, 2019News
Some services may be suspended on Saturday, October 12 (Kansai-kan)
List of What's New of each year
To the head of this page
