Using library materials (special material rooms and digitized content)

• Entering the Library
• Using library materials (books and periodicals in closed stacks)
• Using library materials (Special Materials Rooms and Digitized Content)
• Photoduplication services
• Reference services
• Returning materials and leaving the NDL
• Other facilities

Some materials are located in Special Materials Rooms. Materials on the open shelves of Special Materials Rooms are freely available for use in the rooms.

* Some Special Materials Rooms do not have open shelves. Application form is required to use these rooms.
* Some Special Materials Rooms have different service hours.

• Special Materials Rooms & Reading Rooms

Humanities Room (Main Building 2F)

Some digitized materials are available instead of originals from user terminals.
Digitized content in the public domain is also available via the Internet.

• National Diet Library Digital Collections

Electronic journals and online databases are available from user terminals.

• Electronic Resources Service at the Tokyo Main Library