Symposium: Building on the 'Digital Shift'

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.

NDL bibliographic data survey

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.

NDL user satisfaction survey 2024

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

NDL's Digitized Contents Transmission Service for Libraries

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.

NDL webinar: Information Sources for Japanese Studies

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.

NDL video: National libraries in the digital era

Dear Colleagues,

The National Diet Library held a lecture in October, entitled “National Libraries in the digital era―focusing on the strategies of the National Library of the Netherlands”.
Dr. Lily KNIBBELER, director general of the National Library of the Netherlands (KB) and Ms. Elsbeth KWANT, strategic advisor at the KB spoke about their efforts to achieve its strategic plan.

New information from the NDL

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

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