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PORTA and NDL Search: digital archive portals at the National Diet Library

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Toshiyasu Ōba
Toshiyasu Ōba*
Affiliation:
Digital Information Distribution Division, National Diet Library, 1-10-1 Nagata-chō, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8294, Japan
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Email: oba@ndl.go.jp
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Abstract

The National Diet Library (NDL) is Japan’s national library, established in 1948 to provide research facilities for members of parliament, but now used most by the general public. Similar in purpose and scope to the US Library of Congress, the NDL is a deposit library, and collects copies of all publications that originate in Japan. For nearly a decade and a half the Library has been making digital reproductions of paper documents and printed material, but the pace at which it has added to its digitised content has speeded up remarkably in recent years. It has also developed and continues to enhance integrated search services that allow users to cross-search the databases of many other museums, libraries, archives and research institutes in Japan and retrieve information resources from them. A digital archive of records of the earthquake and related disasters that struck Japan in March 2011 is under way.

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Research Article
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Art Libraries Journal , Volume 38 , Special Issue 2: Special Issue: Art Documentation in Japan , 2013 , pp. 36 - 39
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Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 2013

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