The presentation covered:
- History of Japanese newspaper.
- Newspaper materials at the National Diet Library.
As a national library, NDL archives about 8,000 titles Japanese language newspapers published in Japan, and about 11,000 titles foreign language newspapers. The format of the newspapers vary from the original, reprints, microfilm, microfiche, and so force.
a. Microfilming project: NDL microfilm 58 newspapers of 40 companies.
b. Patrons can request and use microfilmed newspapers. The references are available in the reading room such as CD-ROM "Asahi shinbun sengo midashi database", Shinbun kirinuki shiryo. (filed newspaper clips by subjects).
- Access to Japanese newspaper.
Several newspaper resources were introduced.
The following site in the NDL homepage has concise list of these resources.
http://www.ndl.go.jp/jp/data/theme/theme_bunrui_13.html
[Prepared by Keiko Yokota-Carter.]
