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How the Staff of the Parliamentary Library should serve the Parliament in the Digital Age. Strenghtening the Parliament. Enhancing Democracy. The Role of Parliamentary Libraries in Enhancing Democracy in the Digital Age.
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How the Staff of the Parliamentary Library should serve the Parliamentin the Digital Age
Strenghtening the Parliament Enhancing Democracy The Role of Parliamentary Libraries in Enhancing Democracy in the Digital Age • Strengthening the Legislative Support of Parliamentary Libraries for the Parliament by IT • Article 130 of the Diet Law • The National Diet Library shall be established in the Diet … in order to assist Diet Members in their study and research. • To help the Parliament to be more open and transparent through disclosure of information coming from the Parliament by IT
Total System for Research and Information Service Available in 1997 • Tracking Request System • to assist our day-to-day support operations to the Diet • Information Sharing System • “Chosa no Mado” • to provide Members of the Diet with access to our research products
Inquiry Division staff Total System for Research and Information Service • Tracking Request System -Search Result Page-
Total System for Research and Information Service • Tracking Request System -answer-
Total System for Research and Information Service • Tracking Request System -answer-
Total System for Research and Information Service Dead Line Division staff • Tracking Request System -Statistics- region Research report domestic loan Foreign Cases copy
Total System for Research and Information Service • Tracking Request System -Approvals-
Under preparation Status Underinput Underresearch Finished Total System for Research and Information Service • Tracking Request System -Search Result Page-
Total System for Research and Information Service • Information Sharing System -Degitized version of a research report-
Total System for Research and Information Service • Chosa no Mado, Window for Research Top Page: Gateway of our Electronic Information Legislative Information Library
Total System for Research and Information Service • Chosa no Mado, Window for Research Legislative Information Library Top folder
Total System for Research and Information Service • Chosa no Mado , Window for Research Legislative Information Library
Total System for Research and Information Service • Chosa no Mado , Window for Research Research Report stored in ‘Legislative Information Library’
The Full-Text Database System for the Minutes of the Diet Joint Project by Secretariat of the House of Representatives Secretariat of the House of Councillors National Diet Library All minutes of the postwar Diet, for the period of 54 years from the first session in 1947 1.3 million pages, 86,000 meetings
Full-Text Database System for the Minutes of the Diet Top Page http://kokkai.ndl.go.jp/
Full-Text Database System for the Minutes of the Diet search Search Page
Full-Text Database System for the Minutes of the Diet List of meetings content Search Result Page
Full-Text Database System for the Minutes of the Diet Image Data
Accesses to the Internet : 710,099 The Full-Text Database System for the Minutes of the Diet • Strengthening legislative support • Making the Diet more Open and Transparent to the Diet Wan : 268,581
NDL OPAC National Diet Library Online Public Access Catalog National Diet Library Tokyo Main Library Foundation System of an Electronic Library OPAC the International Library of Children's Literature Kansai-kan
Database Database National Diet Library Users Dnavi Database Navigation Service
web resources Japanese Government web robot harvesting 2002 FIFA World Cup WARP Web Archiving Project
Other benefits brought about by IT • PC provided for each researcher • The Internet • Electronic Journals and Commercial Databases OCLC ECO ProQuest-Direct Inside Web Nikkei 21
Decline in the predominancy of the National Diet Library Problems remaining National DietLibrary7.7 million books, 170,000 titles of serials Information on the Internetgovernmentsinternational organizations think tanks
Decline in the predominancy of the National Diet Library Problems remaining Competitors • Lagisrature Secretariat and Legislative Bureau of the House of Representatives Secretariat and Legislative Bureau of the House of Councillors • Think tanks
Decline in the predominancy of the National Diet Library Problems remaining • Informational Flood Library Materials + Information on the Internet We must • judge • Analyze • Explain plainly
Our Web site WTO Our new Web site BSE Problems Remaining • The Means of Information Dispatch Providing Information Electronically Briefings with Paper Materials ? SelectiveDisseminationInformationService
Problems remaining • IT Literacy • Internet population: 46 million • Diffusion rate: 36% • IT-challenged
Diet General Public Information from Diet Statute Petition Bill interlinked Minute Problems remaining Japanese Legislature • Providing Information generated in the Diet Cooperation among legislative support organizations House of Representatives House of Councillors National Diet Library
Problems remaining 30,000 requests/y 10times in 30 years • Can IT reduce staff? • Requirement of good Information and Products • Expansion of Diet Service • Greater workload
Adverse effects of IT Problems remaining Press the key of Hiragana Chinese Character Convert! • To acquire Information too Easy • To lower the Quality of our Work
In the Digital Age Traditional Approach to Research • Attractive Information • to be more accessible • Service for the Diet • to expand