How the Staff of the Parliamentary Library should serve the Parliament in the Digital Age

The Role of Parliamentary Libraries in Enhancing Democracy in the Digital Age Strengthening the Legislative Support of Parliamentary Libraries for the Parliament –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 Strenghtening the Parliament Enhancing Democracy

Total System for Research and Information Service 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 Available in 1997

Total System for Research and Information Service Tracking Request System -Search Result Page- Inquiry Division staff

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 Tracking Request System -Statistics- domestic region Foreign Cases Research report Division staff Dead Line loan copy

Total System for Research and Information Service Tracking Request System -Approvals-

Total System for Research and Information Service Tracking Request System -Search Result Page- Status Under preparation Under input Under research Finished

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

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 All minutes of the postwar Diet, for the period of 54 years from the first session in million pages 86,000 meetings Joint Project by Secretariat of the House of Representatives Secretariat of the House of Councillors National Diet Library

Full-Text Database System for the Minutes of the Diet Top Page

Full-Text Database System for the Minutes of the Diet Search Page search

Full-Text Database System for the Minutes of the Diet Search Result Page List of meetings content

Full-Text Database System for the Minutes of the Diet Image Data

The Full-Text Database System for the Minutes of the Diet Strengthening legislative support Making the Diet more Open and Transparent Making the Diet more Open and Transparent Accesses to the Internet : 710,099 to the Diet Wan : 268,581

NDL OPAC Tokyo Main Library the International Library of Children's Literature Kansai-kan Foundation System of an Electronic Library OPAC National Diet Library Online Public Access Catalog National Diet Library

Dnavi Database Navigation Service National Diet Library Database Users Database

WARP Web Archiving Project web resources web robot harvesting Japanese Government 2002 FIFA World Cup

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

Problems remaining Decline in the predominancy of the National Diet Library Information on the Internet governments international organizations think tanks National Diet Library 7.7 million books, 170,000 titles of serials

Problems remaining Decline in the predominancy of the National Diet Library Lagisrature Secretariat and Legislative Bureau of the House of Representatives Secretariat and Legislative Bureau of the House of Councillors Think tanks Competitors

Problems remaining Decline in the predominancy of the National Diet Library We must Analyze Library MaterialsInformation on the Internet judge Explain plainly Informational Flood

Problems Remaining ? Our Web site Our new Web site WTO BSE Selective Dissemination Information Service Providing Information Electronically The Means of Information Dispatch Briefings with Paper Materials

Problems remaining IT Literacy Internet population:46 million Diffusion rate: 36% IT-challenged

Problems remaining Providing Information generated in the Diet Cooperation among legislative support organizations House of RepresentativesHouse of Councillors National Diet Library Japanese Legislature Minute Bill Information from Diet Diet StatutePetition interlinked General Public

Problems remaining Can IT reduce staff? Expansion of Diet Service Requirement of good Information and Products Greater workload 30,000 requests/y10times in 30 years

Adverse effects of IT Problems remaining To acquire Information too Easy To lower the Quality of our Work Hiragana Press the key of Chinese Character Convert!

Attractive Information Attractive Information to be more accessible to be more accessible In the Digital Age Service for the Diet Service for the Diet to expand to expand Traditional Approach to Research