Back Numbers 2011

ISSN 1344-7238

Back Numbers 2011

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No. 180, December 2011 [PDF 600KB]

• Selections from NDL collections
  • Yuya-colored pictorial manuscript featuring yokyoku (a Noh song) titled "Yuya," derived from an episode of the "Tale of the Heike"
• Events
  • Lectures on recovery of library materials from emergencies and disasters by Mr. Andrew Robb
  • Lecture and discussion by Mr. Daniel Terrugi "Ina, a unique institution for preservation, access, research, production and training in the audiovisual domain"
  • The 14th Mutual Visit Program between the National Diet Library and the National Library of Korea held in October 2011
  • The 30th Mutual Visit Program between the National Diet Library and the National Library of China
• Articles by NDL staff
  • Great East Japan Earthquake and Libraries: Clearing up and Providing Support
• News from NDL
  • Organizational Restructuring enacted in the National Diet Library
  • NDL-OPAC renewal
• Selected list of articles from NDL periodicals
  • The NDL Monthly Bulletin

No. 179, August / October 2011 [PDF 727KB]

• Selections from NDL collections
  • Oyakoguma - a children's book published at the end of the War: from the Gordon W. Prange Children's Book Collection
• Events
  • Debriefing Session "Supporting Reconstruction in Response to the Great East Japan Earthquake: Needs for Libraries"
• Articles by NDL staff
  • Japanese books in NDL
• News from NDL
  • Second Basic Plan for the International Library of Children's Literature
  • Agreement to secure the passing on of valuable cultural materials to the next generation
  • Small digital exhibition: Kaleidoscope of Books (7) "Japanese learned and were amazed at German Culture and Technology in modern times" now released
• Selected list of articles from NDL periodicals
  • The NDL Monthly Bulletin

No. 178, June 2011 [PDF 1.04MB]

• Selections from NDL collections
  • Yume no tamakura: Kibyoshi (Japanese yellow-backed-cover picture book) retouched by Dr. Mitsutaro Shirai
• Events
  • Lecture and discussion by Mr. Brewster Kahle "Universal Access to All Knowledge"
• Articles by NDL staff
  • Periodicals in NDL
• News from NDL
  • NDL budget for fiscal year (FY) 2011
  • Call for Participants: Japan Specialist Workshop: Access to the culture and the society of contemporary Japan 2012
  • New online service providing digitized contents launched
  • New pictures now searchable in the Picture Book Gallery
  • Third basic plan for the development of science and technology information formulated
• Selected list of articles from NDL periodicals
  • The NDL Monthly Bulletin

No. 177, April 2011 [PDF 713KB]

• Selections from NDL collections
  • Aesthetics of Kabuki-za viewed through architectural designs - Okada Shinichiro, Shogoro kenchiku sekkei genzu shusei
• Events
  • Japan Specialist Workshop: Access to the culture and the society of contemporary Japan 2011
  • Lecture on preservation and conservation by Ms. Deborah Novotny
• Articles by NDL staff
  • Recent developments in services for the Diet (Parliament): Comparison with 2001 by SWOT analysis
  • World of early Japanese books
• News from NDL
  • Supporting afflicted people and libraries of the Tohoku-Pacific Ocean Earthquake
  • Digital exhibition "Expositions, where the modern technology of the times was exhibited" now available in English
• Selected list of articles from NDL periodicals
  • The NDL Monthly Bulletin

No. 176, December 2010/February 2011 [PDF 1.28MB]

• Selections from NDL collections

  • Sanjuroku-ban tsuzuki yakusha juni-tsuki - Shogatsu Nichomachi nenrei no zu (New Year's Greetings in Nichomachi, from the Twelve Months of Kabuki actors series)

• Events

  • International Symposium "Enhancing the Culture of Reading and Books in the Digital Age - Copyright as a means to foster creativity and access -"
  • Exhibition on parliamentary government: commemorating the 120th anniversary of the establishment of the Diet
  • The 13th Mutual Visit Program between the National Diet Library and the National Library of Korea
  • The 29th Mutual Visit Program between the National Diet Library and the National Library of China
  • The 2nd Mutual Visit Program between the National Diet Library, the National Assembly Library and the National Assembly Research Service of Korea

• Articles by NDL staff

  • To collect online publications Report of the Legal Deposit System Council "Concept of the acquisition system for online publication"

• Statistics

  • NDL Statistics FY2009 - NDL in figures - excerpts from the Annual Report of the NDL

• Selected list of articles from NDL periodicals

  • The NDL Monthly Bulletin

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