Japan: A Brief Look at the National Diet Library’s Digital Collection and Service for Information Access The National Diet Library (NDL), Japan’s National Library, has shared highlights from an October presentation at the OCLC Asia Pacific Regional Council 5th Membership Conference in Bangkok. The highlights appear in the December 2013 issue of the NDL Newsletter (in English). The presentation was
From the Kyodo News Service (via Japan Times): A consortium of 13 companies, including bookstore chain Kinokuniya Co. and online shopping mall Rakuten Inc., will test sales of e-books at regular bookstores next spring, sources said Sunday. The aim is to familiarize consumers with e-books and to halt the decline of regular bookstores across the country, they said. See Also: Kinokuniya Opens Bookst
Japan: English Language Interface to National Diet Library’s Current Awareness Portal Now Available From the National Diet Library: Since its launch in 2006, Current Awareness Portal (CA) has aggregated wide variety of news on libraries around the world as well as library and information science. The Portal has published these news in Japanese as a quarterly journal (CA), email magazines (CA-E), a
Public Libraries in Japan Lengthen Hours and Expand Services to Attract Users From The Japan News: Sixty-five percent of respondents to a Yomiuri Shimbun survey said they had not used a library at all in the past year. Asked why—and with multiple answers allowed—the most popular answers included not having time (36 percent of respondents) and no libraries nearby (25 percent). This situation has pr
2CUL Partnership (Columbia & Cornell) Receives $150,000 Mellon Grant for Expanding E-Journal Preservation From 2CUL (via Cornell U.): The libraries at Columbia University and Cornell University are pleased to announce an 18-month, $150,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to conduct a project intended to expand significantly the preservation coverage of e-journals and to implement strate
Lily Endowment Awards Private Academic Library Network of Indiana (PALNI) $225,000 For Shared Print Collection Initiative From the Lily Endowment (via Inside Indiana Business): Indianapolis-based Lilly Endowment Inc. has awarded $225,000 to the Private Academic Library Network of Indiana (PALNI) for the Shared Print Collection Project, an initiative of PALNI and its partner organization Academic L
Japan: “National Diet Library Embraces Digitization and On-line Reading” The following article about digitization at the National Diet Library in Japan is part of a feature titled “Checking Out Libraries” published by GLOBE, an English-language publication from Japan’s Asahi Shimbun. The article also includes info about digitization efforts at the National Library of Korea. From the Article: The
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