For Librarians

This page introduces the NDL news for library.

• News for library (Japanese only)

These pages introduce international services of the NDL including remote user services and services through other libraries.

• Photoduplication Service
• Interlibrary Loan Service for overseas
• Reference Service
• Digitized Contents Transmission Service for Libraries (For Librarians)

This page introduces procedures for using our services to domestic libraries and provides them as a handbook in PDF format.

• National Diet Library Handbook for Library Support (Japanese only)

This page introduces the bibliographies and contents of reference books acquired by the NDL. (in RESEARCH NAVI)

• Introduction of Reference Books (Japanese only)

This page introduces the union catalog of Japanese books held in NDL, prefectural libraries and major municipal libraries in Japan.

• NDL National Union Catalog Network (Japanese only)

This page gives an outline of the database project which integrates the record of reference services in Japanese libraries and the search guide.

• Collaborative Reference Database Project (Japanese only)

This site provides information on libraries and library and information science in and outside of Japan (Most issues are in Japanese; a few are in English.)

• Current Awareness Potal

This page introduces training programs mainly for librarians in Japan.

• Training Programs for Librarians
• Training Program for Librarians and Researchers on Japanese Studies

This page introduces the NDL's activities as the Asia Regional Centre for the IFLA Core Activity on PAC (Preservation and Conservation), one of the six core activities developed by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions.

• Preservation and Conservation

This page provides the NDL's information about making and providing various types of bibliographic data.

• Making and Providing Bibliographic Data

An introduction to ISIL and ISIL Japan Agency.

• Japanese National Agency for ISIL