Dear Colleagues,
Greetings from the National Diet Library (NDL) of Japan.
On February 20, 2025, the National Diet Library has started offering the “Remote photoduplication service (PDF file download)”, where we provide photocopies as PDF files, in addition to the conventional “Remote photoduplication service (courier or postal mail)”, where we provide printed photocopies by courier or postal mail.
The National Diet Library Japan would like to announce a webinar on Information Sources for Japanese Studies, which is being held through February 27, 2025.
For details, see [https://www.ndl.go.jp/en/library/training_jsl.html]
This webinar is intended for librarians, researchers, and other people outside of Japan who are engaged in Japanese studies.
The goal of this webinar is to teach and improve basic skills for finding and using information related to research in Japanese studies.
Dear Colleagues,
The National Diet Library held a symposium in September, entitled “Building on the 'Digital Shift' – Implications for the future in the Library of Congress' new strategic plan”.
Mr. J. Mark Sweeney, Principal Deputy Librarian of Congress spoke about the efforts to achieve its strategic plan.
Dear colleagues,
The National Diet Library, Japan (NDL) is holding a symposium "Building on the 'Digital Shift' – Implications for the future in the Library of Congress' new strategic plan" on Tuesday, September 24, 2024, at the Tokyo Main Library of the NDL.
* This symposium will be held in-person only. A recorded video will be available on the NDL’s YouTube channel at a later date.
Dear Colleagues,
Greetings from the National Diet Library (NDL) of Japan.
The NDL makes its bibliographic data available online via a number of services.
We are now conducting an opinion survey targeting librarians about the bibliographic data of the NDL.
Please help us improve our services by responding to the questionnaire.
Dear Colleagues,
Greetings from the National Diet Library (NDL) of Japan.
We are now conducting a user satisfaction survey of FY2024. Your ideas and opinions are important to our library and will help us provide you with the best library services possible. Please fill out this survey.
Period
From June 3 to October 31, 2024
URL of the user satisfaction survey of FY2024
https://enquete.ndl.go.jp/488724/p/eajrs?lang=en
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to inform you of the service that will begin in April 2024.
In the Digitized Contents Transmission Service for Libraries (hereafter referred to as "the Service"), Patrons at partner libraries subscribing to the Service can browse provide nearly 1.8 million digitized contents including books, periodicals, rare books and old materials.
The NDL would like to announce a webinar on Information Sources for Japanese Studies to be held during February 2024.
For details, see [ https://www.ndl.go.jp/en/library/training_jsl.html ]
This webinar is intended for librarians, researchers, and other people outside of Japan who are engaged in Japanese studies.
The goal of this webinar is to teach and improve basic skills for finding and using information related to research in Japanese studies.
The 19th Forum on the Collaborative Reference Database Project
Dear Colleagues,
Greetings from the National Diet Library (NDL) of Japan.
The NDL has integrated two of its web services—the National Diet Library Online Search and Request Service (NDL Online) and the NDL Search—and launched them as the new NDL Search web service on January 5, 2024.
The URL for the top page is "https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/en/"