FY2015 Business Plan

June 18 2015

1. Tasks of director libraries

  1. General Affairs: Organization and operation of the Association and liaison and coordination between other Japanese organizations
  2. Human Resources: Education and training of staffs
  3. International Affairs: Works for international operations
  4. Scholarly Information: Works for scholarly information resources

2. Committees

  1. Committee on General Affairs
    • Main activities
      • Carry out planning of the organization, operation and publicity of the Association, and planning and deliberation of the JANUL Award.
  2. Committee on Human Resources
    • Main activities
      • Carry out activities that are necessary for a systematic cultivation of the staffs whom the national university libraries need, and examinate the treatment of library staffs.
  3. Committee on Scholarly Information
    • Main activities
      • Consider the issues of scholarly information media, systems and services which are still more increasing and diversifying in order to collect, supply and preserve scholarly information uninterruptedly and stably.
  4. AdHoc Committee on Support Study for Teaching and Learning
    • Main activities
      • Consider the issues of various measures for educational learning support fully functional in the university library.

3. Management Seminar

  1. Date
    9:30 to 12:30 on June 19, 2015, Friday
  2. Venue
    Hotel New Otani Kumamoto
  3. Theme
    Research Support and University Libraries.

4. JANUL Symposium




5. Grant the activities of the regional associations

Grant the excellent operation plans of the regional associations so as to activate the regional activities.

6. Overseas training Project

Started recruiting overseas trainees on December 26, 2014 and will dispatch the selected trainees to overseas.

7. Others





FY2015 Committees's Business Plan

August 24 2015

1. Committee on General Affairs

Carry out planning of the organization, operation and publicity of the Association, and planning and deliberation of the JANUL Award.

  • New activity plan / priority matters
  • Consider the association's business, operation and activities in all aspects. In particular the review of the General Assembly schedule.

    2. Committee on Human Resources

    Carry out activities that are necessary for a systematic cultivation of the staffs whom the national university libraries need, and examinate the treatment of library staffs.

  • New activity plan / priority matters
  • Consider the policy, contents and operations of the Management Seminar.
  • Carry out the Overseas Training and consider its problems.
  • Consider the policy, contents and operations of the training programs.
  • 3. Committee on Scholarly Information

    Consider the issues of scholarly information media, systems and services which are still more increasing and diversifying in order to collect, supply and preserve scholarly information uninterruptedly and stably.

  • New activity plan / priority matters
  • Research on academic information role of distribution and libraries such as open access (continued).
  • Consider the construction of the future of academic information system.
  • Consider various issues related to international cooperation.
  • 4. AdHoc Committee on Support Study for Teaching and Learning

    Consider the issues of various measures for educational learning support fully functional in the university library.

  • New activity plan / priority matters
  • Carry out activities to disseminate "the way of Learning Commons (for the sake of common understanding)" and "Check List" posted in "Proposal on the Method of Utilizing Learning Commons".
  • Carry out pragmatic effort to connect "Information Literacy Standard for Higher Education" to daily library activities.
  • Consider the measures to take advantage of the results of this committee in addition to the above.