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- 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 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 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 - 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 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) - 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 24, 2024News
Symposium "Building on the 'Digital Shift' – Implications for the future in the Library of Congress' new strategic plan" - July 2, 2024News
143,000 items added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections - 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） - April 30, 2024News
260,000 items from the National Diet Library Digital Collections have been made available via the Digitized Contents Transmission Service - 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 - March 29, 2024News
Selected Articles from the Research and Legislative Reference Bureau - March 28, 2024News
Science and Technology Research Project reports released: "Considering Japan's Space Policy: What Should Be Done in the Next Ten Years?" "Technology and Its Social Implementation in the Digital Era" and "Materials Science: The State of the Art and Future Options." - March 28, 2024News
199,000 items added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections - March 26, 2024News
Digital exhibition "Exploring Japanese Landmarks in Nishiki-e and Photographs" is now available - March 26, 2024News
The ILCL Will Hold an Event: Enjoying Books on Science—About Karikó Katalin, Nobel Prize Winner from Hungary on April 27, 2024. - March 19, 2024News
The Printing Function of the NDL's Digitized Contents Transmission Service for Libraries Will Be Opened to Approved Partner Libraries Overseas - March 12, 2024News
Online contents "Explore, Learn, and Read: A Guide for Kids" and "Explore, Learn, and Read: A Guide for Teens" are now available. - February 28, 2024News
Some materials will be unavailable while undergoing digitization - February 27, 2024News
Digital exhibition "Fauna and Flora in Illustrations: Natural History of the Edo era" now renewed - February 27, 2024News
ILCL exhibition "The Imperial Library and the Dawn of Japanese Children's Books" will be held.（International Library of Children's Literature） - February 13, 2024News
Termination schedule of microfilming and microform duplication service - January 22, 2024News
Some materials will be unavailable while undergoing digitization - January 18, 2024News
The number of digitized materials that can be full-text searched will increase - January 5, 2024News
The NDL Launches a new service: Mina Search - January 5, 2024News
The new NDL Search launched - January 4, 2024News
YAMAJI Yasushi appointed new Deputy Director General of the National Diet Library - January 4, 2024News
New Year's Greetings - December 22, 2023News
55,000 items added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections - December 12, 2023News
ILCL exhibition" Books for Healthy Growth of Children: Cultural Materials for Child Welfare Recommended in FY 2022" - December 1, 2023News
Library services at the year-end and New Year - November 30, 2023News
Lecture: "The Magic Door" by British picture book author Rachel Bright to be held at the International Library of Children's Literature - November 28, 2023News
31,000 items added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections - November 17, 2023News
Handing down memories of the earthquake and traditions of the community—the FY2023 Great East Japan Earthquake Archive Symposium will be held on January 8, 2024 - October 31, 2023News
51,000 items newly added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections - October 26, 2023News
The National Diet Library Digital Collections Is Named Library of the Year 2023 in the Librarianship Category - August 31, 2023News
NDL to Integrate the NDL Online and NDL Search web services in January 2024 - August 30, 2023News
Lecture: “National Libraries in the digital era―focusing on the strategies of the National Library of the Netherlands” will be held on October 11 - August 29, 2023News
27,000 items newly added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections - August 14, 2023News
Services will be stopped on Tuesday, August 15 (Kansai-kan) - July 25, 2023News
ILCL exhibition "Yummy Children's Books" will be held. (International Library of Children's Literature) - July 10, 2023News
Some materials will be unavailable while undergoing digitization - June 28, 2023News
86,000 items newly added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections - June 22, 2023News
Elimination of Entry Restrictions - June 13, 2023News
ILCL exhibition "Children's books link the World - Hans Christian Andersen Award 2020 & IBBY Honour List 2020" will be held. (International Library of Children's Literature) - June 5, 2023News
20,000 items newly added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections - May 18, 2023News
Notice to Visitors - April 17, 2023News
6th floor cafeteria at the Tokyo Main Library reopens on April 17, 2023 - April 3, 2023News
100,000 items newly added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections - 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 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 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 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 3, 2023News
100,000 books newly added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections - January 25, 2023News
Some materials will be unavailable while undergoing digitization - 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 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. - 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 1, 2022News
Exhibition "Seek Knowledge throughout the World: Culture of Translation before and after the Meiji Restoration," starts in November 11 - August 23, 2022News
ILCL exhibition "Children's Books in Spanish from Spain and Latin America" will be held.（International Library of Children's Literature） - August 3, 2022News
Some materials will be unavailable while undergoing digitization - July 6, 2022News
Change of Entry Restrictions of the Tokyo Main Library starting Thursday, July 21 - June 28, 2022News
ILCL exhibition "Books for Healthy Growth of Children : Cultural Materials for Child Welfare Recommended in FY 2020" - May 31, 2022News
300,000 books newly added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections - May 19, 2022News
The NDL's Digitized Contents Transmission Service for Individuals to Launch - April 6, 2022News
The Japanese Periodicals Index (Online Periodicals) is available on NDL Online and NDL Search. - March 31, 2022News
Science and Technology Research Project reports released: "Genome Editing Technologies: Issues arising on the frontline and future prospects," "Technologies for Decarbonized Society and Related Issues," and "Quantum Information Technologies" - March 23, 2022News
Selected Articles from the Research and Legislative Reference Bureau - March 15, 2022News
23,500 items newly added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections - March 8, 2022News
Some materials will be unavailable while undergoing digitization - March 2, 2022News
Publication of a Report on the National Diet Library Questionnaire on Response to COVID-19 by Public Libraries in Japan - March 1, 2022News
Webinar: "Libraries and UN SDGs: IFLA supporting the libraries to achieve the SDGs" will be held on March 24 - February 25, 2022News
Approximately 500 sound recordings of the Historical Recordings Collection (Rekion) are newly available online. - February 16, 2022News
Extensively redesigned digital exhibition "Portraits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures" now available - February 16, 2022News
ILCL exhibition "Let's go through Ueno Forest to the library! A brick building over 100 years old" will be held.（International Library of Children's Literature） - February 16, 2022News
Easing of restrictions on admission to the Tokyo Main Library starting Saturday, February 19 (Last update: May 19, 2022) - February 7, 2022News
The on-site services on February 8 (Tue.) at Tokyo Main Library, Kansai-kan, and the International Library of Children's Literature - February 7, 2022News
NDL services change due to system failure in the Tokyo Main Library and Kansai-kan - February 1, 2022News
The NDL's Digitized Contents Transmission Service for Individuals to Launch on May 19, 2022 - January 19, 2022News
Some materials will be unavailable while undergoing digitization - January 4, 2022News
KATAYAMA Nobuko appointed new Deputy Director General of the National Diet Library - January 4, 2022News
New Year's Greetings - November 26, 2021News
Library services at the year-end and New Year - November 4, 2021News
November 4, 2021: Preserving, Sharing, and Using Records of Earthquakes—the FY2020 Great East Japan Earthquake Archive Symposium to be held on January 10, 2022 - October 1, 2021News
Easing of restrictions on admission to the Tokyo Main Library starting Monday, October 4 - October 1, 2021News
Ending TLS 1.0/TLS 1.1 support - September 15, 2021News
The Kansai-kan will be closed on November 15 and November 16 - September 3, 2021News
Last day of service in 2021 at the Tokyo Main Library to be Saturday, December 25 - September 1, 2021News
Revised Copying Fees - August 26, 2021News
English translations of Kaleidoscope of Books digital exhibitions are now available. - August 2, 2021News
Temporary suspension of library services during the transfer of library materials from the Tokyo Main Library to the Kansai-kan. - July 27, 2021News
27,700 items newly added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections - May 31, 2021News
Restrictions on admission to the Tokyo Main Library to be eased starting Tuesday, June 1 - May 28, 2021News
Former NDL Director General Dr. NAGAO Makoto Has Passed Away. - May 10, 2021News
Some materials will be unavailable while undergoing digitization - April 26, 2021News
Relocation of periodicals - April 19, 2021News
Selected Articles from the Research and Legislative Reference Bureau - April 1, 2021News
National Diet Library Vision 2021–2025: The Digital Shift at the National Diet Library - March 31, 2021News
Science and Technology Research Project reports released: "Trends and Issues of Social Media in the Era of Coronavirus," "Genome-Editing Technology and Its Impact," and "Technologies to Assist Older People and Related Social Issues" - March 16, 2021News
7,600 items newly added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections - March 10, 2021News
Termination of the National Union Catalog of Newspapers in Japan Database - February 10, 2021News
Some materials will be unavailable while undergoing digitization - January 28, 2021News
A new English version of the Research Navi is released - January 27, 2021News
Webinar: "Libraries in the New Normal" will be held on February 26 - January 27, 2021News
Approximately 600 sound recordings of the Historical Recordings Collection (Rekion) are newly available online. - January 26, 2021News
ILCL exhibition "Sports and Children's Books" will be held.（International Library of Children's Literature） - January 4, 2021News
New Year's Greetings - December 17, 2020News
Launch of the East Asia Digital Library - December 15, 2020News
ILCL exhibition "Books for healthy growth of children 2020" - December 7, 2020News
Revised Copying Fees - November 27, 2020News
Library services at the year-end and New Year - November 26, 2020News
483 items from the collections of personal papers of political figures (Ishiguro Tadanori Papers, etc.) were added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections. - November 12, 2020News
Ten Years Past and Ten Years Future—the FY2020 Great East Japan Earthquake Archive Symposium to be held online on January 11, 2021. - October 28, 2020News
Restrictions on admission to the Tokyo Main Library will be eased starting Wednesday, November 4 - October 15, 2020News
6th floor cafeteria at the Tokyo Main building to close on October 20, 2020 - September 4, 2020News
Temporary suspension of library services during the transfer of library materials from the Tokyo Main Library to the Kansai-kan - August 25, 2020News
The Launch of Japan Search - August 25, 2020News
15,700 items newly added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections - August 24, 2020News
ILCL exhibition "Japanese Picture Book Authors of the Heisei Era (1989–2019)" will be held.（International Library of Children's Literature） - July 31, 2020News
January 2021 changes to availability of NDL bibliographic data - July 8, 2020News
Attention!: Fake websites pretending to be the National Diet Library and the International Library of the Children's Literature - July 2, 2020News
Some materials will be unavailable during retrospective cataloging of bibliographic data - July 1, 2020News
Attention! Notice to Visitors - July 1, 2020News
Full reopening of the ILCL with restricted admission by numbered entrance tickets - July 1, 2020News
ILCL exhibition "Barrier-free Children's Books from Around the World - 2019 IBBY Selection of Outstanding Books for Young People with Disabilities" will be held.（International Library of Children's Literature） - July 1, 2020News
Some materials will be unavailable while undergoing digitization - June 24, 2020News
Selected Articles from the Research and Legislative Reference Bureau - June 23, 2020News
Dreamy library—a virtual tour of the ILCL in Ueno, Tokyo (3D View & VR Video) has been released - June 10, 2020News
Some materials will be unavailable while undergoing digitization - June 1, 2020News
Admission reservations to the Tokyo Main Library to be allocated by lottery (Last update: November 10, 2021) - May 27, 2020News
Reopening of National Diet Library Facilities (Update: June 12) - May 18, 2020News
Extension of temporary closure and resumption of remote photoduplication services - April 21, 2020News
Attention! Notice of temporary suspension of remote photoduplication services - April 10, 2020News
Attention! Notice of temporary suspension of remote photoduplication services - April 10, 2020News
Temporary Closure Extended to Wednesday, May 20, 2020 - April 2, 2020News
Science and Technology Research Project reports released: "Fostering Future Researchers in Support of the Science-and-Technology-Oriented-Nation Concept," "Trends and Issues of Social Media," and "Science, Technology and Innovation Policy beyond 2020" - April 1, 2020News
YOSHINAGA Motonobu appointed new Director General of the National Diet Library - April 1, 2020News
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