What's New
List of What's New
- April 25, 2025News
The number of digitized materials that can be full-text searched will increase
- April 17, 2025News
National Diet Library expected to be crowded before and after Golden Week holidays
- April 15, 2025Events
May 5, 2025（Mon.）
Special event on Children's Day *will be held in the ILCL. (Japanese)
- April 1, 2025Other
Greetings from the Director General have been updated
- March 31, 2025News
Selected Articles from the Research and Legislative Reference Bureau
- March 28, 2025News
Science and Technology Research Project reports released: "AI and Society in Perspective" "Trends and Challenges in Ocean Affairs" and "Food Tech: Exploring the Challenges and Potential of Innovative Food Solutions."
- March 26, 2025News
64,000 items added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections
- March 24, 2025Publications
Selected Articles from Current Awareness, Current Awareness-E
- March 19, 2025News
Some materials will be unavailable while undergoing digitization
- March 18, 2025News
Online lecture "Activities of IFLA's Libraries for Children and Young Adults Section" is now available. (International Library of Children's Literature)
- March 18, 2025Other
CDNLAO Newsletter No. 105, UPDATE
- March 18, 2025Events
From March 18, 2025 (Tue.) to May 25, 2025 (Sun.), ILCL is holding an exhibition "Children's Books Link the World - Hans Christian Andersen Award 2022 & IBBY Honour List 2022"
- March 11, 2025News
Food Poisoning Outbreak at the Cafeteria in the International Library of Children's Literature
- March 11, 2025News
The ILCL Will Hold an Event: French Illustrator Grandville and Picture Books –Koji Yamamura Speaks on Sunday, April 27, 2025. (International Library of Children's Literature)
- March 10, 2025Other
List of indexed periodicals in Japanese Periodicals Index, UPDATE(Japanese)
- March 10, 2025News
Revised the documents required to apply for the Digitized Contents Transmission Service for Libraries (For Librarians)
- February 28, 2025News
4,600 items added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections
- February 25, 2025News
Approximately 2,200 Imperial Diet Materials Added to the National Diet Library Digital Collection
- February 21, 2025Publications
NDL NEWSLETTER No. 261, UPDATE
- February 20, 2025Other
The NDL Launches Its New Remote Photoduplication Service (PDF Download)
- February 18, 2025News
ILCL exhibition "Children's books link the World - Hans Christian Andersen Award 2022 & IBBY Honour List 2022" will be held. (International Library of Children's Literature)
- February 7, 2025News
We are experiencing a high volume of new user registrations and requests to change user information
- February 6, 2025News
The NDL is planning for users to be able to acquire photocopies as PDF files through the remote photoduplication service from February 20, 2025.
- February 6, 2025Service Stoppage
Start of Public Transmission Service by Libraries or Similar Facilities (from February 20, 2025)
- February 4, 2025Events
Picture books and music for children "Five Nice Mice Concert" * will be held at the ILCL.(Japanese)
- January 31, 2025News
Some materials will be unavailable while undergoing digitization
- January 31, 2025News
141,000 items added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections
- January 31, 2025Other
Webinar: Information Sources for Japanese Studies (FY2024) (From Friday, January 31, to Thursday, February 27, 2025)
- January 30, 2025Events
The 20th Forum on the Collaborative Reference Database Project "What can generative AI bring to reference services?" will be held online (February 20, 2025),(Japanese)
- January 30, 2025News
We are experiencing a high volume of new user registrations and requests to change user information
- January 30, 2025Other
English translation of the kaleidoscope of Books "Dawn of Mountaineering - Mountains and People in Modern Japan" is now available.
- January 27, 2025Other
The open dataset of bibliographic data of Japanese publications in 2024 has been updated.
- January 20, 2025Other
The Open Dataset of Bibliographic Data from "Introduction of Reference Books" in Research Navi has been updated.
- January 20, 2025Other
The open dataset of the list of identifiers (IDs) which collate bibliographic data in different databases have been updated.
- January 10, 2025News
New Year's Greetings
- January 7, 2025News
More than 3,000,000 materials are available for full-text searches in the National Diet Library Digital Collections
- December 24, 2024Publications
NDL NEWSLETTER No. 260, UPDATE
- 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 19, 2024Other
International Library of Children's Literature's Instagram account is now open.
- November 12, 2024Other
There will be a delay in the services of the Japanese National Centre for ISSN from December 23, 2024
- 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 28, 2024Publications
NDL NEWSLETTER No. 259, UPDATE
- October 17, 2024Service Stoppage
Temporary Suspension of Some Online Services and Delays to Providing Materials
- 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
- October 1, 2024Events
From October 1, 2024 (Tue.) to December 25, 2024 (Wed.), ILCL is holding an exhibition "The Hans Christian Andersen Awards"
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