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.
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.
The 19th Forum on the Collaborative Reference Database Project
Dear Colleagues,
Greetings from the National Diet Library (NDL) of Japan.
The NDL has integrated two of its web services—the National Diet Library Online Search and Request Service (NDL Online) and the NDL Search—and launched them as the new NDL Search web service on January 5, 2024.
The URL for the top page is "https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/en/"
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.
The NIJL/EAJRS Kuzushi-ji Workshop will be held between 17 and 19 April 2024 at University of Strasbourg. Please note that this year’s workshop will NOT be online. The workshop is free of charge. If you would like to participate the workshop, please fill in the application form, and submit it by email attachment to a.hirano@sainsbury-institute.org by 4 February. Registration is closed.
ハーグのオランダ国立文書館（Nationaal Archief）が所蔵する幕末・明治期の日蘭関係史料群について、ヘルマン・ムースハルト（Herman J. Moeshart）氏が作成した史料目録データベースのデータセットを公開しています。使用言語はオランダ語です。収録史料群は、外務省（本省）文書中の対日関係7ファイル、駐日オランダ公使館文書、長崎領事館文書、横浜（総）領事館文書で、それらのマイクロフィッシュが1999～2002年に発売された際に作成されたものです（参考文献参照）
（〈 〉内はデータセット中で使用されている略称）
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
情報学を人文系の研究に導入するデジタル・ヒューマニティーズ（DH）が注目されています。日本の伝統的人文学ではまだ発展途上ですが、北米・ヨーロッパ等の海外では人文学全体でデジタルの手法をつかった研究が活発化しています。そこに大学図書館やライブラリアンが貢献している例も少なくありません。
図書館はデジタルヒューマニティーズにどこまでかかわることができるでしょうか？
デジタルアーカイブや研究データなどの資源はどのように活用されるでしょうか？
新しい世代の学生・研究者に向けて、図書館の役割はどう変化していけるでしょうか？
The National Institute of Japanese Literature (NIJL) and European Association of Japanese Resource Specialists (EAJRS) would like to invite you to the newly inaugurate Kotenseki Seminar. This seminar series covers various topics related to Japanese pre-modern materials. The online lectures will be given by a researcher from NIJL in Japanese. No English translation will be given.