National Diet Library Newsletter

ISSN 1344-7238

*PDF files are stored in the NDL Digital Collections.

• Selections from NDL collection
  • Material recently designated as a national important cultural property: Kōan reisetsu [PDF: 332KB]
  • Inside of the Nakamura-za Theater in Edo [PDF: 736KB]
  • Exhibition "Autograph manuscripts and original artwork of well-known people" [PDF: 266KB]
• Events
  • NDL Database Forum in the Tokyo Main Library and in the Kansai-kan [PDF: 496KB]
• Articles by NDL staff
  • Struggles of the National Diet Library in Collecting Online Publications in Japan (Paper presented at IFLA/WLIC 2014, Session 87 - Digital preservation of e-books: Best practice in libraries - Information Technology with Preservation and Conservation and National Libraries) [PDF: 496KB]
  • Toward Sustainable Environmental Control: Temperature and Humidity Control at the National Diet Library of Japan(Paper presented at IFLA/WLIC 2014, Session 188 — Keeping collections alive: Preventive conservation policy and practice — Preservation and Conservation Section) [PDF: 858KB]
  • Web NDL Authorities: Authority Data of the National Diet Library, Japan, as Linked Data (Paper presented at IFLA 2014 Satellite Meeting "Linked Data in Libraries: Let's make it happen!") [PDF: 1.4MB]
• Selected list of articles from NDL periodicals
  • The NDL Monthly Bulletin [PDF: 62KB]

• Selections from NDL collection
  • Haiyū gakuya sugoroku: pleasure of taking a virtual backstage tour [PDF: 544KB]
  • Western style architecture in the early modern period of Japan: From small digital exhibition "Kaleidoscope of Books (16)" [PDF: 77KB]
  • Small exhibition in the Kansai-kan (16): "Dreams of Space, from the ancient view of the universe to the Hayabusa Project" [PDF: 1.6MB]
• Articles by NDL staff
  • NDL participated in IFLA/WLIC 2014 [PDF:43KB]
  • Enhancing our Role as the "Brains of the Legislature": Comprehensive and Interdisciplinary Research at the National Diet Library, Japan (Paper presented at preconference of IFLA/WLIC 2014, Library and Research Services for Parliaments Section) [PDF: 173KB]
  • Google is not enough: Reference and Information Services for the transfer of knowledge - reframing the discussion (Paper presented at IFLA/WLIC 2014, Reference and Information Services Section) [PDF: 65KB]
  • Welcome to the Laboratory: the birth, present, and future of the NDL Lab [PDF: 411KB]
• Selected list of articles from NDL periodicals
  • The NDL Monthly Bulletin [PDF: 59KB]

• Selections from NDL collection
  • Varieties of Japanese business cards (meishi): History of meishi through Meishifu, Udagawa Yōan meishi, and Harimazejō
• Events
  • The 17th Mutual Visit Program between the National Diet Library and the National Library of Korea [PDF: 636KB]
  • Symposium co-hosted by the National Diet Library and the Goethe-Institut Tokyo "Future world and knowledge achieved by digital technologies: Strategy and challenges of the Bavarian State Library" [PDF: 1.8MB]
• Articles by NDL staff
  • The Lost Tokyo Olympics in 1940 From small digital exhibition "Kaleidoscope of Books (15)" [PDF: 707KB]
• Budget
  • NDL budget for fiscal year (FY) 2014 [PDF: 119KB]
• Selected list of articles from NDL periodicals
  • The NDL Monthly Bulletin [PDF: 63KB]

• Selections from NDL collection
  • A born settler: Mineichiro Adachi and Permanent Court of International Justice [PDF: 748KB]
• Events
  • Japanese Studies Support Symposium "What can Japanese Libraries do to support Japanese studies outside Japan? [PDF: 920KB]
  • Libraries in the "Big Data" era: Strategies and Challenges in Archiving and Sharing Research data [PDF: 168KB]
• Articles by NDL staff
  • Lecture at CEAL/NCC Pre-Conference "Workshop on Technologies for librarians in Japanese studies" - "Update of the NDL Digital Collections" [PDF: 857KB]
  • WARP, linking the past to the future [PDF: 369KB]
• Statistics NDL Statistics FY2012 [PDF: 143KB]
• News from NDL
  • Japanese National Bibliography records of e-books and e-magazines now available in TSV format [PDF: 39KB]
  • Online exhibition "The Landmarks of Edo in Color Woodblock Prints" [PDF: 1.2MB]
• Selected list of articles from NDL periodicals
  • The NDL Monthly Bulletin [PDF: 84KB]

• Selections from NDL collection
  • Small exhibition in the Kansai-kan (15): “Modernization of Japanese sake and domestic production of Western liquor” [1.4MB]
• Articles by NDL staff
  • Hinagiku: NDL's continued efforts to transmit records of the Great East Japan Earthquake to the future generations [PDF: 615KB]
  • Progress of Collaboration in Disaster Preparedness for Cultural Properties after the Great East Japan Earthquake (Paper presented at IFLA/WLIC 2013) [PDF: 134KB]
  • National Diet Library's Efforts for the Preservation and Promotion of Culture [PDF: 1.2MB]
  • National Diet Library's Mission and Objectives 2012-2016 and collaboration with the Asian region: current status and challenges [PDF: 323KB]
• Events
  • Seminar on the Archives of Earthquake Disaster in the Tokyo Main Library [PDF: 42KB]
  • Exhibition “The great match!” [PDF: 268KB]
• News from NDL
  • The 3rd China-Japan-Korea Digital Library Initiative (CJKDLI) meeting [PDF: 358KB]
  • Japanese Periodicals Index data provided via OCLC WorldCAT [PDF: 40KB]
  • TV and radio scripts donated by the consortium for promoting script archives in Japan now available in the National Diet Library [PDF: 144KB]
  • Result of the evaluation for NDL activities in FY2012 and framework for Activity Performance Evaluation in FY2013 open to the public [PDF: 389KB]
• Selected list of articles from NDL periodicals
  • The NDL Monthly Bulletin [80KB]