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What’s New

2014-4-16: Web Archiving Project (WARP) maintenance notice: April 24, 2014 (Thu.) 9:30 - 12:00
2014-4-15: Research reports "Aspects of Renewable Energy" and "Science and Technology Policies of Renewable Energy" (Japanese) published.
2014-3-31: Announcement on ending the Database Navigation Service (Dnavi)
2014-3-28: About 47,000 periodicals were added to the NDL Digital Collections
2014-3-26: On Apr. 13(Sun.), Event: "An Introduction to Latvia through Picture Books" will be held. (Japanese)
2014-3-24: On May 5 (Mon.), Special event for children on Children's Day will be held in the ILCL. (Japanese)

2014-3-20: About fees for photocopying services subject to the Consumption Tax increase
2014-3-20: From April 22 (Tue.), ILCL exhibition "The World Through Picture Books-Librarians' favourite books from their country" will be held.
2014-3-18: Research Material "Decentralization in the 21st Century: Implications for the 'Doshusei' Regional System Plan" (Japanese)
2014-3-18: Digital exhibition "The Landmarks of Edo in Color Woodblock Prints" now available
2014-3-13: "Foreign Legislation" No 259 features "Maritime Safety and Security" (Japanese)
2014-3-12: About 14,000 items were added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections.

Spotlight

: New research materials published by the Research and Legislative Reference Bureau（Japanese）
"Decentralization in the 21st Century : Implications for the ‘Doshusei’ Regional System Plan," "Aspects of Renewable Energy" and "Science and Technology Policies of Renewable Energy" are now available on the web.

: NDL kids' website (Japanese) "NDL kids' website" introduces the role and history of the National Diet library to children about nine-years old. It also helps them to search and at the same time updates guides of various books. Try it for yourself!

Tokyo Main Library
Kansai-kan of the NDL
ILCL

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Coming Events

2014-4-19(Sat.): Lecture "Books I encountered in my childhood: Mr. Jiro Asada" *(ILCL)
2014-4-22(Tue.) to 2014-5-25(Sun.): The World Through Picture Books-Librarians' favourite books from their country(ILCL)
2014-5-5(Mon.): Special event for children on Children's Day *(ILCL)

[abbr]
Tokyo ; Tokyo Main Library
Kansai ; Kansai-kan of the NDL
ILCL ; International Library of Children’s Literature