What's New
List of What's New
- July 2, 2020Service Stoppage
Technical difficulties with the search engines on the websites of the National Diet Library and International Library of the Children's Literature
- July 2, 2020News
Some materials will be unavailable during retrospective cataloging of bibliographic data
- July 1, 2020News
Attention! Notice to Visitors
- July 1, 2020News
ILCL exhibition "Barrier-free Children's Books from Around the World - 2019 IBBY Selection of Outstanding Books for Young People with Disabilities" will be held.（International Library of Children's Literature）
- July 1, 2020News
Full reopening of the ILCL with restricted admission by numbered entrance tickets
- July 1, 2020News
Some materials will be unavailable while undergoing digitization
- June 24, 2020News
Selected Articles from the Research and Legislative Reference Bureau
- June 23, 2020Publications
Publication of a Report on Library Facilities and Their Functions as Hubs for Community Development
- June 23, 2020News
Dreamy library—a virtual tour of the ILCL in Ueno, Tokyo (3D View & VR Video) has been released
- June 18, 2020Publications
NDL NEWSLETTER No. 230, UPDATE
- June 11, 2020Other
List of indexed periodicals in Japanese Periodicals Index, UPDATE June 11 (Japanese)
- June 10, 2020News
Some materials will be unavailable while undergoing digitization
- June 1, 2020News
Admission reservations to the Tokyo Main Library to be allocated by lottery
- May 28, 2020Other
Attention: The Japanese National Centre for ISSN resumes accepting telephone inquiries from May 28, 2020.
- May 27, 2020News
Reopening of National Diet Library Facilities
- May 22, 2020News
Greetings from the Director General
- May 18, 2020News
Extension of temporary closure and resumption of remote photoduplication services
- April 28, 2020Publications
Books on Japan Jan.- Mar. 2020, Jan.-Dec. 2019, UPDATE
- April 21, 2020News
Attention! Notice of temporary suspension of remote photoduplication services
- April 21, 2020Publications
NDL NEWSLETTER No. 229, UPDATE
- April 20, 2020Other
The latest "List of books on Japan published in Asia" is now available on the Research Navi
- April 20, 2020Other
Attention: The Japanese National Centre for ISSN will partially suspend its services from April 20, 2020
- April 13, 2020Other
The list of online journals etc. published in Japan with ISSN, UPDATE April 13 (Japanese)
- April 10, 2020News
Attention! Notice of temporary suspension of remote photoduplication services
- April 10, 2020News
Temporary Closure Extended to Wednesday, May 20, 2020
- 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
List of What's New of each year
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