What's New - Year 2024

List of What's New of Fiscal Year 2024

March 31, 2025News
Selected Articles from the Research and Legislative Reference Bureau
March 28, 2025News
Science and Technology Research Project reports released: "AI and Society in Perspective" "Trends and Challenges in Ocean Affairs" and "Food Tech: Exploring the Challenges and Potential of Innovative Food Solutions."
March 26, 2025News
64,000 items added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections
March 24, 2025Publications
Selected Articles from Current Awareness, Current Awareness-E
March 19, 2025News
Some materials will be unavailable while undergoing digitization
March 18, 2025News
Online lecture "Activities of IFLA's Libraries for Children and Young Adults Section" is now available. (International Library of Children's Literature)
March 18, 2025Other
CDNLAO Newsletter No. 105, UPDATE
March 18, 2025Events
From March 18, 2025 (Tue.) to May 25, 2025 (Sun.), ILCL is holding an exhibition "Children's Books Link the World - Hans Christian Andersen Award 2022 & IBBY Honour List 2022"
March 11, 2025News
Food Poisoning Outbreak at the Cafeteria in the International Library of Children's Literature
March 11, 2025News
The ILCL Will Hold an Event: French Illustrator Grandville and Picture Books –Koji Yamamura Speaks on Sunday, April 27, 2025. (International Library of Children's Literature)
March 10, 2025Other
List of indexed periodicals in Japanese Periodicals Index, UPDATE(Japanese)
March 10, 2025News
Revised the documents required to apply for the Digitized Contents Transmission Service for Libraries (For Librarians)
February 28, 2025News
4,600 items added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections
February 25, 2025News
Approximately 2,200 Imperial Diet Materials Added to the National Diet Library Digital Collection
February 21, 2025Publications
NDL NEWSLETTER No. 261, UPDATE
February 20, 2025Other
The NDL Launches Its New Remote Photoduplication Service (PDF Download)
February 18, 2025News
ILCL exhibition "Children's books link the World - Hans Christian Andersen Award 2022 & IBBY Honour List 2022" will be held. (International Library of Children's Literature)
February 7, 2025News
We are experiencing a high volume of new user registrations and requests to change user information
February 6, 2025Service Stoppage
Start of Public Transmission Service by Libraries or Similar Facilities (from February 20, 2025)
February 6, 2025News
The NDL is planning for users to be able to acquire photocopies as PDF files through the remote photoduplication service from February 20, 2025.
February 4, 2025Events
Picture books and music for children "Five Nice Mice Concert" * will be held at the ILCL.(Japanese)
January 31, 2025News
Some materials will be unavailable while undergoing digitization
January 31, 2025News
141,000 items added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections
January 31, 2025Other
Webinar: Information Sources for Japanese Studies (FY2024) (From Friday, January 31, to Thursday, February 27, 2025)
January 30, 2025Events
The 20th Forum on the Collaborative Reference Database Project "What can generative AI bring to reference services?" will be held online (February 20, 2025),(Japanese)
January 30, 2025News
We are experiencing a high volume of new user registrations and requests to change user information
January 30, 2025Other
English translation of the kaleidoscope of Books "Dawn of Mountaineering - Mountains and People in Modern Japan" is now available.
January 27, 2025Other
The open dataset of bibliographic data of Japanese publications in 2024 has been updated.
January 20, 2025Other
The Open Dataset of Bibliographic Data from "Introduction of Reference Books" in Research Navi has been updated.
January 20, 2025Other
The open dataset of the list of identifiers (IDs) which collate bibliographic data in different databases have been updated.
January 10, 2025News
New Year's Greetings
January 7, 2025News
More than 3,000,000 materials are available for full-text searches in the National Diet Library Digital Collections
December 24, 2024Publications
NDL NEWSLETTER No. 260, UPDATE
December 24, 2024News
12,000 items added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections
December 2, 2024News
Library services at the year-end and New Year (with service suspension information)
November 29, 2024News
43,700 items added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections
November 19, 2024Other
International Library of Children's Literature's Instagram account is now open.
November 12, 2024Other
There will be a delay in the services of the Japanese National Centre for ISSN from December 23, 2024
November 6, 2024News
"Records" and "memories" that should be preserved by earthquake archives―The FY2024 Great East Japan Earthquake Symposium will be held on January 11, 2025
October 29, 2024News
7,000 items added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections
October 28, 2024Publications
NDL NEWSLETTER No. 259, UPDATE
October 17, 2024Service Stoppage
Temporary Suspension of Some Online Services and Delays to Providing Materials
October 15, 2024News
Mina Search, libraries that provide data for persons with print disabilities to the NDL and data producers, named Library of the Year 2024 in the Librarianship Category
October 9, 2024News
Full-text search results are now displayed as pins on the images of the National Diet Library Digital Collections
October 8, 2024News
1,400 items added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections
October 1, 2024Events
From October 1, 2024 (Tue.) to December 25, 2024 (Wed.), ILCL is holding an exhibition "The Hans Christian Andersen Awards"
September 30, 2024Publications
Selected Article from Current Awareness
September 19, 2024Other
CDNLAO Newsletter No. 104, UPDATE
September 19, 2024News
"Japanese Periodicals Index", the number of articles exceeded 15 million
September 2, 2024News
Some materials will be unavailable while undergoing digitization
August 31, 2024News
Services status on Saturday, August 31 (Kansai-kan)
August 30, 2024News
Services status on Saturday, August 31 (Kansai-kan)
August 27, 2024Publications
NDL NEWSLETTER No. 258, UPDATE
August 23, 2024News
Full text data for all time periods is now available in the Database System for the Minutes of the Imperial Diet
August 16, 2024News
Some services may be suspended (August 16)
August 6, 2024Events
Concert for Children * will be held in the ILCL. (Japanese)
July 31, 2024News
18,000 items added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections
July 30, 2024News
ILCL exhibition "The Hans Christian Andersen Award " will be held. (International Library of Children's Literature)
July 26, 2024Events
We are holding an online forum "Digital Archive Festival 2024 - Utilization frontline - "
July 24, 2024News
Symposium "Building on the 'Digital Shift' – Implications for the future in the Library of Congress' new strategic plan"
July 16, 2024Other
The Open Dataset of Bibliographic Data from "Introduction of Reference Books" in Research Navi has been updated
July 9, 2024Events
From July 9, 2024 (Tue.) to August 25, 2024 (Sun.), ILCL is holding an exhibition "The World Through Picture Books-Librarians' favourite books from their country "
July 2, 2024News
143,000 items added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections
June 24, 2024Publications
NDL NEWSLETTER No. 257, UPDATE
June 21, 2024Other
List of indexed periodicals in Japanese Periodicals Index (Online Periodicals), UPDATE June 21 (Japanese)
June 21, 2024Other
List of indexed periodicals in Japanese Periodicals Index, UPDATE June 21 (Japanese)
June 18, 2024Events
Library tours for children and parents during the summer vacation * will be held in the ILCL. (Japanese)
June 13, 2024Service Stoppage
Postponement of service start date (from June 20, 2024)
June 6, 2024Other
The open dataset of bibliographic information of NDL's digital collections have been updated
June 3, 2024Other
User satisfaction survey of FY2024 has started
May 31, 2024News
118,000 items added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections
May 28, 2024News
ILCL exhibition "The World Through Picture Books-Librarians' favourite books from their country" will be held.（International Library of Children's Literature）
May 21, 2024Events
Lecture: Let’s enter GIF IT UP!—How to make a GIF animation * will be held at the ILCL.(Japanese)
May 14, 2024News
Greetings from the Director General
May 10, 2024Other
Results of the user surveys of FY2023 now available
April 30, 2024News
260,000 items from the National Diet Library Digital Collections have been made available via the Digitized Contents Transmission Service
April 23, 2024Publications
NDL NEWSLETTER No. 256, UPDATE
April 16, 2024Events
May 5, 2024（Sun.） Special event on Children's Day *will be held in the ILCL. (Japanese)
April 1, 2024News
The Printing Function of the NDL's Digitized Contents Transmission Service for Libraries Is Now Open to Approved Partner Libraries Overseas
April 1, 2024News
The start of a new service and termination of microfilming and microform duplication services
April 1, 2024News
KURATA Keiko appointed new Director General of the National Diet Library

List of What's New of each year

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