{"id":61,"date":"2005-03-18T16:55:54","date_gmt":"2005-03-18T21:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/japan\/?p=61"},"modified":"2014-08-30T14:11:58","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T14:11:58","slug":"national-diet-library-web-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2005\/03\/national-diet-library-web-site\/","title":{"rendered":"National Diet Library Web site"},"content":{"rendered":"

The National Diet Library<\/a> (NDL) site \u56fd\u7acb\u56fd\u4f1a\u56f3\u66f8\u9928 offers essential resources for research on Japan including the NDL-OPAC (National bibliography) and Journal index \u96d1\u8a8c\u8a18\u4e8b\u7d22\u5f15 (1949-present) as well as Lending\/copying services for both institutions and individuals. (Now they even allow credit cards for payment!) Since some of you may not be familiar with it, so let me take this opportunity to share a little more about this amazing resource.<\/p>\n

The NDL\u2019s Electronic Library Collection<\/a> \u8fd1\u4ee3\u30c7\u30b8\u30bf\u30eb\u30e9\u30a4\u30d6\u30e9\u30ea\u30fc has continued to grow. It now has some 55,000 volumes of monographs published in Meiji period. Although the Yenching library has the complete Meiji monograph collection available on microfilm (some 120,000 volumes), increasingly we can skip viewing microfilm thanks to this growing digital collection.<\/p>\n

\u65e5\u672c\u306e\u56fd\u4f1a\u30fb\u4e16\u754c\u306e\u8b70\u4f1a The Diet & Parliament<\/a> section offer a wealth of Modern political history sources including the \u56fd\u4f1a\u4f1a\u8b70\u9332 since the first postwar Diet session in 1947, the \u65e5\u672c\u6cd5\u4ee4\u7d22\u5f15 since 1884, \u95a3\u8b70\u6c7a\u5b9a\u7b49\u6587\u732e\u30ea\u30b9\u30c8\u53ca\u3073\u672c\u6587 1927-1963, and my favorite \u8fd1\u73fe\u4ee3\u65e5\u672c\u653f\u6cbb\u95a2\u4fc2\u4eba\u7269\u6587\u732e\u76ee\u9332 with 44,000 references. The NDL\u2019s Parliamentary Documents room \u61b2\u653f\u8cc7\u6599\u5ba4 has in-depth resources on modern Japanese political history, and is making a selection of its contents contents viewable digitally here<\/a>. The problem with the NDL web site is its organization. Parliamentary documents are kept in the \u201dNippon in the World\u201d section which is a part of the \u201cGallery\u201d. \u201cNippon in the World<\/a>\u201d has three sections: Scenic Mementos of Japan, Japan at the Vienna Expo 1873, and Parliamentary Documents. There is no logic in grouping them, but they all offer rich and unique information in image and texts. The NDL site map, which reflects NDL bureaucracy but isn’t a \u2018universal\u2019 organization of knowledge that we might be familiar with, does not help much in finding things. Anyway, my point is that NDL\u2019s digital resources on the web are growing and it\u2019s worth exploring from time to time. There are many hidden gems on the NDL web site.<\/p>\n

P.S. I created a web resource guide for Japanese studies two years ago and it is accessible at the Yenching library web site<\/a>. I am planning to update this soon. I would appreciate your comments\/suggestions for my next guide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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