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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.