National Diet Library
Name
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in the national language(s) and script(s) : 国立国会図書館
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in English : National Diet Library
Location/Address :
1-10-1,
Nagatacho, Chiyoda-ku,
Tokyo, 100-8924 Japan
Phone：81-3-3581-2331
Web site:
http://www.ndl.go.jp/en/index.html
Contact:
Acquisitions
Administration and Bibliographic Control Division
Acquisitions
and Bibliography Department
Short
description of the institution:
Established in 1948, the
National Diet Library (NDL) has achieved many results over some 60 years as an
organization assisting the legislative activities of the National Diet and as
the sole national library of Japan.
The NDL has two origins. One is the Imperial Library
and the other is from the old parliament: the Library of the House of Peers and
the Library of the House of Representatives.
As the only depository library
in Japan, the NDL acquires all materials published in Japan, preserves them as
national cultural heritage, and provides various types of bibliographic data. The NDL is also developing
the digital library in which digital materials are available directly from the
NDL website.
Short
description of the authority data:
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Authorities web site : http://id.ndl.go.jp/auth/ndla
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Described
entities:
o Persons
o Families
o Corporate bodies
o Geographical names
o Uniform titles
o Subjects (NDLSH)
o Subdivisions
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data provided in the authority records (in MARC 21)
o Headings (1XX)
o See from tracings (4XX)
o See also tracings (5XX)
o Notes (6XX)
o Alternate graphic representations (880)
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For details, see “JAPAN/MARC MARC 21 Format Manual”: https://www.ndl.go.jp/en/data/jm.html
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Number of
records: [As of May 31, 2013]
o Persons: 793,540
o Families: 2,192
o Corporate bodies: 185,815
o Geographical names: 27,574
o Uniform Titles: 4,020
o Subjects (NDLSH): 102,660
o Subdivisions: 324
Data
provided to VIAF and number of records:
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Authority records for
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names of persons,
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families,
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corporate bodies,
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geographical names,
o
uniform titles
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Number of
records: [As of May 31, 2013]
o Persons: 793,540
o Families: 2,192
o Corporate bodies: 185,815
o Geographical names: 27,574
o Uniform Titles: 4,020
As
of June 10, 2013, the NDL provided 1,013,478 records.