The Collaborative Reference Database (CRD) is a tool for providing reference services, that is being developed by the National Diet Library, Japan (NDL) in collaboration with libraries throughout Japan. The CRD currently comprises about 180,000 records of queries from library patrons together with answers prepared by reference librarians and is available for browsing by the general public.
For details, please visit: https://crd.ndl.go.jp/en/about/index.html
Dear Colleagues,
As the National Library of Korea (NLK) celebrates its 80th anniversary in 2025, it has set forth in its annual major work plan the vision statement Connecting the World with Intelligence and Culture and is implementing a number of progressive measures in response to the current information environment.
Dear Colleagues,
Greetings from the National Diet Library (NDL) of Japan.
We are now conducting a user satisfaction survey of FY2025. 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 May 7 to September 30, 2025
URL of the user satisfaction survey of FY2025
https://enquete.ndl.go.jp/245695/p/eajrs?lang=en
Dear Colleagues,
Greetings from the National Diet Library (NDL) of Japan.
The results of the questionnaire for librarians on NDL bibliographic data conducted in FY2024 are now available on the NDL website.
We would like to thank all participants for completing this questionnaire.
URL to the Survey on Bibliographic Data on the NDL website (in Japanese)
https://www.ndl.go.jp/jp/data/data_service/bib-enquete/index.html
Best wishes,
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.
