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), Japan.
(1) Integration of the NDL Online and NDL Search web services
The NDL plans to integrate two of its current web services: the National Diet Library Online Search and Request Service (NDL Online) and the NDL Search. These two will be launched as a new NDL Search web service in January 2024.
For detailed information of the renewal, please visit the following page.
https://www.ndl.go.jp/en/use/2024renewal/index.html
The National Diet Library (NDL) is holding a lecture, “National Libraries in the digital era―focusing on the strategies of the National Library of the Netherlands” on Wednesday, October 11, 2023, at the Tokyo Main Library of the NDL.
Job opening: German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ Tokyo)
The German Institute for Japanese Studies in Tokyo is recruiting a full-time librarian. Expected starting date: 1 April 2023. Application
deadline: 20 February 2023.
More information in English (PDF <https://dij.tokyo/libjob>) and in Japanese (PDF <https://dij.tokyo/shisho>) and on our website <https://www.dijtokyo.org/>.
Dear Colleagues,
Greetings from the National Diet Library (NDL), Japan.
(1) Bibliographic ID List updated
The open dataset of bibliographic information of NDL's digital collections and the open dataset of the list of identifiers (IDs) which collate bibliographic data in different databases have been updated.
https://www.ndl.go.jp/en/dlib/standards/opendataset/index.html
Dear Colleagues,
Greetings from the National Diet Library (NDL), Japan.
(1) NDL User Satisfaction Survey of FY2022
From May 6 to October 31, 2022, we are now conducting a user satisfaction survey of FY2022. Your ideas and opinions are important to our library and will help us provide you with the best library services possible.
URL of the user satisfaction survey of FY2022
https://enquete.ndl.go.jp/632797/p/eajrs?lang=en
Dear Colleagues,
Greetings again from the National Diet Library (NDL), Japan.
We would like to introduce three updates regarding NDL services.
(1) Historical Recordings Collection (Rekion)
The NDL made approximately 500 sound recordings of the Historical Recordings Collection (Rekion) available for streaming online as of Feb 25, 2022.
Dear Colleagues,
We are conducting a survey on our training plans for librarians and researchers in Japanese studies outside Japan.
Please fill out the survey and inform any relevant colleagues of it.
There are two versions of the questionnaire, Japanese and English.
-Japanese [ https://enquete.ndl.go.jp/697739?lang=ja ] -English [ https://enquete.ndl.go.jp/697739?lang=en ]
Dear colleagues,
Today I send a Call for Applications for the "6th Professor Josef Kreiner Hosei University Award for International Japanese Studies" on behalf of the Hosei University Research Center for International Japanese Studies.
We wait your submission to the "Kreiner Award" celebrating Professor Emeritus Dr. Josef Kreiner, a former president of the EAJS to encourage overseas scholars of Japanese studies and to contribute to further development in this academic field.
The National Diet Library, Japan, is offering a workshop for Japanese Studies Librarians and Researchers held in March 2020 at Tokyo.
This workshop is for librarians, mainly subject librarians, or researchers outside Japan who are expected to engage in reference services or research on Japanese rare materials. The program aims to foster understanding of the rare materials collections owned by the NDL and other research institutions, and to improve skills in utilizing both physical materials and digital content.
Dates: March 2 to March 6, 2020