What's New
List of What's New
- June 5, 2023News
20,000 items newly added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections
- May 18, 2023News
Notice to Visitors
- May 11, 2023Other
Results of the user survey of FY2022 now available
- May 9, 2023Other
The list of online journals etc. published in Japan with ISSN, UPDATE May 9 (Japanese)
- May 8, 2023Other
User satisfaction survey of FY2023 has started
- April 26, 2023Publications
NDL NEWSLETTER No. 250, UPDATE
- April 25, 2023Other
The open dataset of books on Japan in foreign languages has been updated.
- April 17, 2023News
6th floor cafeteria at the Tokyo Main Library reopens on April 17, 2023
- April 10, 2023Events
May 5, 2023(Fri.)
Special event on Children's Day *will be held in the ILCL. (Japanese)
- April 5, 2023Other
Research Navi English page design has been changed on March 24, 2023.
Research Navi includes more than 1,900 research guides, information on the National Diet Library's distinctive collection of materials, and various thematic databases to help you with your research.
- April 3, 2023News
100,000 items newly added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections
- April 3, 2023Other
Greetings from the Director General have been updated
- 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)
List of What's New of each year
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