News on International Cooperation
This section summarizes news on international cooperation such as international conferences attended by National Diet Library staff, and National Diet Library's international exchange activities.
Please see the Web Archiving Project (WARP) for news before 2021.
News on International Cooperation (2024)
April 24–26, 2024
The International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) General Assembly and Web Archiving Conference was held in Paris, France. Mr. ANDO Kazuhiro (Digital Library Division, Kansai-kan) attended the conference.
April 8–11, 2024
The Bologna Children's Book Fair was held in Bologna, Italy. Ms. FUKUI Chie (Assistant Director, Resources and Information Division, International Library of Children's Literature) attended the conference.
March 13–14, 2024
The Council on East Asian Libraries (CEAL), and the meeting of the North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources (NCC) were held in Seattle, USA. Mr. FUKUBAYASHI Yasuhiro (Director, Business, Science and Technology Division, Reader Services and Collections Department) and Mr. AOIKE Toru (Research and Development for Next-Generation Systems Office, Digital Information Planning Division, Digital Information Department) attended the conferences. Mr. AOIKE made a presentation entitled "New Developments in Digital Services at the National Diet Library: OCR Text and Machine Learning" (Presentation file: [PDF: 2.39MB]) .
For information on the CEAL and NCC, see Links: International library organizations related with the National Diet Library.
February 4, 2024
British picture book author Rachel Bright was invited to the NDL to give a lecture, "The Magic Door", at the International Library of Children's Literature (ILCL).
