Mutual Cooperation Between National Diet Library and NACSIS
To date, the National Center for Science Information Systems (NACSIS) and the National Diet Library (Librarian: Shin'ichiro Ogata) have always believed in the value of mutual cooperation: for instance, each party has been making the bibliography databases it creates available for use by the other and dispatching its personnel to the premises of the other party. In order to step up their activities at a time when information is becoming increasing accessible by people in ever greater amounts, the Director General of NACSIS and the Librarian of the National Diet Library signed an "Agreement Relating to Mutual Cooperation Between the National Diet Library and NACSIS" last year on Wednesday April 19. The signing took place at the National Diet Library, and its purpose is to establish a cooperative set-up which is more intimate and comprehensive than before.
In the future, a clearly defined mutually cooperative setup will be established on the basis of the purport of this agreement at the business liaison meetings which are held every year. More specifically, future plans call for the development of service functions enabling connection with the National Diet Library and applications for document requests to be made by electronic mail from inter-library loan (ILL) systems to the National Diet Library which is JapanŐs deposit copy library, and also for these service functions to be provided to the more than 400 participating libraries. These activities are expected to make the distribution of scientific information between NACSIS and the National Diet Library even more closely knit.
NACSIS Newsletter No. 13 p.11 (February 1996)