What's New - Year 2022

List of What's New of Fiscal Year 2022

March 31, 2023News
Selected Articles from the Research and Legislative Reference Bureau
March 30, 2023News
Science and Technology Research Project reports released: "Issues and Prospects of Decarbonization Technology to Achieve Carbon Neutrality by 2050," "International Trends and Issues in the Utilization of Space," and "Risk Communication regarding Science and Technology: New Challenges and Developments"
March 29, 2023Publications
Selected Articles from Current Awareness-E
March 28, 2023Events
Children's Literature and The Dream of the Imperial Library will be held at the ILCL. (Japanese)
March 28, 2023Events
From March 28, 2023 (Tue.) to July 16, 2023 (Sun.), ILCL is holding an exhibition "The Imperial Library's Dream of Becoming the Greatest Library in the Orient."
March 22, 2023News
ILCL to Hold an Event for Children's Reading Day: Encounters with Books, the Joy of Reading—An Interview with Tomihiko Morimi
March 14, 2023News
120,000 items have been added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections
March 14, 2023News
320,000 items from the National Diet Library Digital Collections have been made available via the Digitized Contents Transmission Service
March 14, 2023Other
NDL Image Bank Instagram account is now open.
March 10, 2023Other
English page of Japanese National Centre for ISSN is updated.
March 6, 2023Other
CDNLAO Newsletter No. 101, UPDATE
March 1, 2023Publications
NDL NEWSLETTER No. 249, UPDATE
March 1, 2023News
Some materials will be unavailable while undergoing digitization
February 24, 2023News
Webinar: "The Role of Libraries in Implementing Inclusive Information Society - Centered on the National Library for the Disabled -" will be held on March 23
February 21, 2023Other
Japanese Periodicals Index Periodical Selection Criteria (Academic journals published by municipalities are indexed), UPDATE February 21
February 21, 2023Other
List of indexed periodicals in Japanese Periodicals Index (Online Periodicals), UPDATE February 21 (Japanese)
February 14, 2023News
ILCL exhibition "The Imperial Library's Dream of Becoming the Greatest Library in the Orient" will be held.（International Library of Children's Literature）
February 14, 2023Other
English versions of 5 articles added to our digital exhibition series Kaleidoscope of Books.
February 3, 2023News
100,000 books newly added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections
February 1, 2023Events
Picture books and music for children "The Bear, the Piano and Little Bear's Concert" * will be held at the ILCL.(Japanese)
January 26, 2023Other
The open dataset of bibliographic data of Japanese publications in 2022 and the open dataset of the list of identifiers (IDs) which collate bibliographic data in different databases have been updated.
January 25, 2023News
Some materials will be unavailable while undergoing digitization
January 19, 2023Events
The 18th Forum on the Collaborative Reference Database Project "Encountering special libraries through the CRD: The attraction of special libraries" will be held online (March 22, 2023) (Japanese)
January 4, 2023News
New Year's Greetings for January 4, 2023
December 23, 2022News
Change of Entry Restrictions of the Tokyo Main Library starting Thursday, January 19, 2023
December 21, 2022News
Renewal of the National Diet Library Digital Collections
December 19, 2022Publications
NDL NEWSLETTER No. 248, UPDATE
December 2, 2022News
Library services at the year-end and New Year
December 2, 2022News
Renewal of the National Diet Library Digital Collections on December 21, 2022
December 2, 2022Other
The beta version of International Standard Identifier for Libraries and Related Organizations (ISIL) LOD has been updated.
December 1, 2022Other
English pages about OCR-related projects in FY2021 at the NDL have been released.
November 28, 2022Other
The renewed Current Awareness Portal launches today
November 17, 2022News
Connecting disaster records to the Next Generation - the FY2022 Great East Japan Earthquake Archive Symposium to be held on January 9, 2023
November 8, 2022Publications
NDL NEWSLETTER No. 247, UPDATE
November 1, 2022News
Exhibition "Seek Knowledge throughout the World: Culture of Translation before and after the Meiji Restoration," starts in November 11
October 26, 2022Events
November 20, 2022 (Sun.),
Special event for children in Autumn* will be held at the ILCL.
October 20, 2022Other
The open dataset of books on Japan in foreign languages has been updated.
October 18, 2022Other
The list of online journals etc. published in Japan with ISSN, UPDATE (Japanese)
October 11, 2022Publications
Selected Articles from Current Awareness, Current Awareness-E
October 4, 2022Other
List of indexed periodicals in Japanese Periodicals Index (Online Periodicals), UPDATE October 4 (Japanese)
October 4, 2022Other
List of indexed periodicals in Japanese Periodicals Index, UPDATE October 4 (Japanese)
October 4, 2022Events
From October 4, 2022 (Tue.) to December 25, 2022 (Sun.), ILCL is holding an exhibition "Children's Books in Spanish from Spain and Latin America."
September 26, 2022Publications
CDNLAO Newsletter No. 100, UPDATE
September 20, 2022Events
Concert for Children will be held at the ILCL. (Japanese)
August 24, 2022Publications
NDL NEWSLETTER No. 246, UPDATE
August 23, 2022News
ILCL exhibition "Children's Books in Spanish from Spain and Latin America" will be held.（International Library of Children's Literature）
August 3, 2022News
Some materials will be unavailable while undergoing digitization
August 2, 2022Events
From August 2, 2022 (Tue.) to August 28, 2022 (Sun.), ILCL is holding an exhibition "Books for healthy growth of children : Cultural Materials of Child Welfare Recommended in FY 2020."
July 22, 2022Other
The open dataset of bibliographic information of NDL's digital collections and the open dataset of the list of identifiers (IDs) which collate bibliographic data in different databases have been updated.
July 19, 2022Events
August 25 (Thu.) We are holding an online forum “Digital Archive Festival 2022 -Japan Search Day-“(Japanese)
July 11, 2022Other
Greetings from the Director General have been updated
July 6, 2022News
Change of Entry Restrictions of the Tokyo Main Library starting Thursday, July 21
June 28, 2022News
ILCL exhibition "Books for Healthy Growth of Children : Cultural Materials for Child Welfare Recommended in FY 2020"
June 23, 2022Publications
NDL NEWSLETTER No. 245, UPDATE
June 10, 2022Other
List of indexed periodicals in Japanese Periodicals Index, UPDATE June 10 (Japanese)
June 9, 2022Other
"WAGASHI," the latest episode from the digital exhibition series "Kaleidoscope of Books," is now available in English
June 1, 2022Events
Library tours for children and parents during the summer vacation * will be held in the ILCL. (Japanese)
May 31, 2022News
300,000 books newly added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections
May 31, 2022Other
The list of online journals etc. published in Japan with ISSN, UPDATE May 31 (Japanese)
May 19, 2022News
The NDL's Digitized Contents Transmission Service for Individuals to Launch
May 9, 2022Publications
Selected Articles from Current Awareness, Current Awareness-E
May 9, 2022Other
Results of the user survey of FY2021 now available
May 6, 2022Other
User satisfaction survey of FY2022 has started
April 22, 2022Other
The ILCL has uploaded to YouTube a video of a lecture by architect Tadao Ando entitled "Creativity Starts from Reading". The video will be available until August 31st. (Japanese)
April 20, 2022Publications
NDL NEWSLETTER No. 244, UPDATE
April 19, 2022Events
May 5, 2022（Thu.） Special event on Children's Day *will be held in the ILCL. (Japanese)
April 15, 2022Other
The open dataset of books on Japan in foreign languages has been updated.
April 6, 2022News
The Japanese Periodicals Index (Online Periodicals) is available on NDL Online and NDL Search.

List of What's New of each year

* Please see the Web Archiving Project(WARP) for news from before this time.