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Kansai-Kan of the National Diet Library Guide for Visitors ■ Age limit /18 years or older in principle ■ Library hours ＊If you are under 18, please ask for an individual consultation. For details, please refer to the NDL website. Opening hours 9:30-18:00 ■ Use of materials only in the library (no materials may be taken out) Reading hours 9:30-18:00 Reading Request for closed stack materials 10:00-17:15 service (registered users only) Inter-site request service (registered users only) 9:30-17:30 Same-day photoduplication 9:30-17:00 Printouts of electronic materials Copying (including microform collections) 9:30-17:00 service Self-service photoduplication 9:30-17:30 Later date photoduplication (registered users only) 10:00-17:45 Reference service 9:30-18:00 User registration 9:30-18:00 ■ Library holidays: Sundays, national holidays, year-end and New Year’s holidays, 3rd Wednesday of each month (for stocktaking) Please be aware that National Diet Library facilities are subject to close without prior notice during natural disasters or other public emergencies. Announcements are posted on the NDL website and our official Twitter account. Access Map JR Gakkentoshi line ●By car to Seika gakken I.C. (Keinawa Expressway) Kyoto Route 24, JR Hosono station and Kintetsu Shin-Hosono station Osaka Kyoto line Kintetsu JR Nara line APITA Kyobashi Shokusai Plaza Kansai-kan of toward JR Osaka Osaka Metro the National Keihanna Plaza Loop line JR Kintetsu Midosuji line Diet Library Hosono Seika main street Shin-Hosono Front Parking lot Kizu entrance entrance Osaka Metro Nagata Bus stop Honmachi Chuo line of Kokuritsu Gakken Nara Tomigaoka Bus stop of Kokkai Morinomiya Hikaridai Toshokan Kintetsu West Kansai-kan of the 1-chome Keihanna line entrance National Diet Library Osaka- Kintetsu Kansai-kan of Namba Nara Toward Route 163, Hanna Toll road Yamato- Tsuruhashi and Kintetsu Gakuenmae station Ikoma Saidaiji Kintetsu Nara line JR Nara the National Diet Library Keinawa Expresswayto Kyoto to Kyoto Kintetsu Shin-Hosono VIERRA TOWN JR Hosono station ■ Access by Public Transport Kintetsu Kyoto line Kizu River JR Gakkentoshi line ● From “Shin-Hosono Station” on the Kintetsu Kyoto Line or Bus stop of Seika Gakken Hikaridai 1-chome IC Keihanna “Hosono Station” on the JR Gakkentoshi Line, Plaza APITA Keihannna Commemorative Park take Nara Kotsu Bus 36 (Hikaridai Loop), 56, 58, or 59 Front Yawata Kizu Road Seika main street Bus stop of entrance (bound for “Gakken-Nara-Tomigaoka Station”) , Kokuritsu Kokkai Toshokan Keihanna Open Kizugawadai Advanced Telecommunications Innovation or 46 (bound for “Hikaridai-3-chome”) or 47 (bound for “ATR”) and Research Institute International Center (KICK) station (ATR) get off at the “Kokuritsu Kokkai Toshokan” stop. International Research Institute Kansai-kan of the Institute of of Innovative ● From “Gakken-Nara-Tomigaoka Station” on the Kintetsu-Keihanna Line, Advanced Technology for National Diet Library Studies (IIAS) the Earth (RITE) Yamadagawa take Nara Kotsu Bus 56 or 59 (bound for “Hosono Station”) Nara Seika line station Suntory World and get off at the “Kokuritsu Kokkai Toshokan” stop. to Osaka Research Center(SWR) Yamadagawa ■ Free parking available for about 200 vehicles. IC Kansai-kan of the National Diet Library 8-1-3 Seikadai, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto 619-0287 0774-98-1200 (automated voice information service) ■ https://www.ndl.go.jp/en/kansai/index.html Published in March 2020 A modern library with offering large-scale storage and advanced library services. The Purpose of the Kansai-kan Cafeteria The Kansai-kan of the NDL was established in April 2002 and opened in October of the same year. Roof Garden It is designed to secure storage space for the long term, to meet the demands for library materials and information in the advanced information society, and to serve as a large-scale research library in the Kansai region. It is located in Kansai Science City (Keihanna Science City), a research complex straddling the borders of Kyoto, Osaka, and Nara Prefectures. Cafeteria Bento, curry rice, and other Key Roles of the Kansai-kan The Kansai-kan of the NDL is tasked with three following key roles. Atrium Japanese luncheon fare are offered. Open from 11:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. General Collections Room Entrance General information books, reference Main Stairway books, dictionaries, and statistics are Entrance Counter organized by subject matter and Auditorium available for use. Providing materials Library Cooperation Programs Digital Library Programs Entrance Gate Asian Resources Room Reference books, magazines, and other materials in Asian languages Courtyard Courtyard are available for use. Information desk, Guidance on Asian resources Reading Room General Asian Collections Resouces Room Room Information desk Guidance on Asian resources Public Space Offices Storage Annex Cafeteria 4F Entrance cube 3F Stacks 2F Public entrance About the National Diet Library 1F Offices 1F Reading rooms Atrium The National Diet Library (NDL) is the parliamentary library of the National Diet of B1F Courtyard Japan and was founded in 1948 by the National Diet Library Law, in accordance with B2F B3F Stacks Article 130 of the Diet Law, which states in part that “The National Diet Library shall Automatic stacks be established in the Diet by a separate law, in order to assist Diet Members in their B4F study and research.” Mission Role Stacks at the Kansai-kan ①Main building B2F-B4F ②Storage annex “The NDL is hereby established as a result of “The National Diet Library shall collect books Approximately the firm conviction that truth makes us free and other library materials for the purpose of Number of materials and with the object of contributing to assisting the members of the National Diet in 14,000,000items international peace and the democratization the performance of their duties and also for Ambient environment Temperature of about 22℃ of Japan as promised in our Constitution.” the roles of providing certain library services as Humidity of about 55% (From the Preamble of the National Diet Library Law) hereinafter specified for the executive and judicial agencies of the national government and for the people of Japan.” (From Article 2 of the National Diet Library Law) Network Main Collections Support to the Diet Branch libraries ●Foreign periodicals, frequently used Japanese periodicals, in the executive and Main Collections in the Tokyo Main Library judicial branches science and technology materials, Japanese doctoral Tokyo of the government ●Books, periodicals and digital publications published in Japan collected Main Acquisition and preservation of dissertations, scientific research reports under grants from Library materials and information the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and under the legal deposit system Technology and recorded academic literature ●Foreign books and periodicals ●Special collections: Kansai-kan International ●Major reference books, basic books, bibliographies, of the Library of Providing the public with Laws and parliamentary documents, Japanese government and National Children’s Literature access to information resources catalogs and government publications published in Japan Diet Library international agency documents, old books, modern Japanese political and overseas history materials, Materials on the Allied Occupation of Japan, maps, ●Asian-language and Asia-related materials audiovisual materials ２ 3 Library Cooperation Providing materials Programs Providing materials Library Cooperation Programs The Tokyo Main Library, the Kansai-kan and the International Library of Children’s Literature share the library cooperation activities of the NDL. The Tokyo Main Library is responsible for setting policy in this 1 On-site Services area, and for administering collaboration with foreign libraries (other than the delivery of resources). The Kansai-kan carries out support operations for other libraries (with respect to the National Union Catalog ●Access to printed materials from open shelves and Network, the Collaborative Reference Database Project, study on library and information science, About About digital materials training and exchanges, Cooperation with libraries providing services for persons with disabilities and 100 m ●Copying of library materials assigning and managing ISIL (the International Standard Identifier for Libraries and Related 360 ●Using Study Rooms and Group Study Rooms Organizations)) and serves as the access point for the sharing of NDL resources. The International by 45 m reading Library of Children’s Literature offers support services to school libraries and other institutions involved in size ●Reference services desks in juvenile services. The NDL's three facilities are united to further improve activities in support of library Guidance on research methodology, the use of bibliographies and cooperation. Asian Resources Room General Collections Room catalogs, and information on related research facilities 30,000items 90,000items Services for registered users 1 Cooperative Network Activities ◎Request for the materials in the closed stacks The Kansai-kan handles the planning and administration of the ◎Some of the materials that are held in the Tokyo Main projects for the NDL National Union Catalog Network and the Library and/or the International Library of Children's Collaborative Reference Database System available via the Information desk Literature are available for the inter-site request Internet to promote library cooperation. The databases are Reading room Guidance on Asian resources also made available to the
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