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  Library report No.177 is now out!

(2025/05/08)

Library report No.177

https://www.lib.shizuoka.ac.jp/aboutus/publish/report/

(Japanese Only)

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  [Maintenance] JapanKnowledge Lib

(2025/05/02)

Date: May. 24, 2025 Time: 10:00-13:00 (JST)

Due to system maintenance, Following service in JapanKnowledge Lib through GakuNin will be temporarily unavailable during the above period.

Shizuoka

  TeX Seminar for Beginners

(2025/04/16)

The TeX Seminar for Beginners will be held in May.
The tutor is a member of the Library Student Advisory Group.
Why don’t you join us and learn how to create beautiful documents including mathematical formulas using Cloud LaTeX, which can be accessed from web browser?
(*These seminar will be held in Japanese.)

Date

May 22nd (Thu) 1:00pm – 2:00pm

Venue

Shizuoka Main Library 5th floor, Harvest Room

Tutor

Member of the Library Student Advisory Group

Application

Please apply in advance using the form.
[Application form]

Things to bring

Laptop (*Only those who answered “I will use my own computer” when applying.)

Inquiry

Shizuoka Main Library User Processing Unit
9:00am – 12:30pm, 1:30pm – 5:00pm

(*Click the image to open the PDF.)

Shizuoka

  Library tour for freshmen

(2025/04/11)

The members of the Student Advisory Group and librarian guide to the Shizuoka Main Library!
You can observe the floors you will use usually and the closed stacks where undergraduate students are not allowed to enter.
“What is a university library like?”
“How do students use the library?”
If you are a freshman with such questions, please come and join us!
(*These tours will be held in Japanese.)

Date

• April 16th (Wed) 12:00pm – 12:30pm
• April 25th (Fri) 12:00pm – 12:30pm
• May 8th (Thu) 12:00pm – 12:30pm
• May 16th (Fri) 12:00pm – 12:30pm

(*The content is the same any day.)

Meeting Place

Shizuoka Main Library 4th floor, Lounge

Participants

Freshmen (*Current students can also participate if the number of participants is within capacity.)

Before the tour

Please leave your luggage in the lockers.

Application

Unnecessary.

Capacity

10 people per tour (Order of arrival)

Guide

Members of the Student Advisory Group and librarian

Inquiry

Shizuoka Main Library User Processing Unit
9:00am – 12:30pm, 1:30pm – 5:00pm

(*Click the image to open the PDF.)

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  The Student Advisory Group members wanted!

(2025/04/09)

Would you like to join the Student Advisory Group and do something to improve our library?

As for the activity of last year, please see the following. (Japanese text only)

　Shizuoka Main Library
　Hamamatsu Branch Library

If you are interested, please contact the each library counter or apply using the form below. (Japanese text only)

Shizuoka Main Library

(*Click the image to open the PDF.)

Hamamatsu Branch Library

(*Click the image to open the PDF.)

Hamamatsu

  Gallery “Photo Exhibition 2025” by Hamamatsu Photograph Club

(2025/04/04)

Exhibition by the Hamamatsu Photograph Club. Enjoy up-close the works that showcase the students’ unique perspectives and creativity.

• April 11st (Fri) – May 8th (Thu)
  weekdays, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm (until 1:00 pm on the last day)
• Hamamatsu branch Library 1st floor, Gallery

(*Clicking on the image will open an enlarged version.)

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  Library Tips for Freshmen

(2025/04/01)

Congratulations on your admission! Welcome to Shizuoka University.
Shizuoka University has the Shizuoka Main Library (Shizuoka Campus) and the Hamamatsu Branch Library (Hamamatsu Campus).
This webpage summarizes what freshmen should know when using the library for the first time.

Using the Library!

• Please bring your student ID card to enter the library. Even if you haven’t had your student ID card yet, freshmen can enter the library. Please let the library staff know at the entrance gate.
• You need your student ID card to borrow books from the library. After your student ID card will be issued, you may borrow books with it.
• Please check the library calendar on the library website or bulletin boards for the opening hours.
• Undergraduate students may borrow 5 books for up to 2 weeks. And you can renew loan period of borrowed books only once. The checkout limit and the loan period for graduate students are different. Please see the Shizuoka main library user’s guide or the Hamamatsu branch user’s guide on our website for more details.

What things you can do at the library.

• The Shizuoka main library holds about 880,000 and the Hamamatsu branch holds about 310,000 volumes of books, and there are also many journals and newspapers. The materials on the open shelves in the reading room are freely accessible. Many materials in the closed stacks are also available.
• You can place a request on a book that is located at another campus’s library. In addition, if the Shizuoka University library doesn’t have the book you look for, you can borrow materials from other libraries through interlibrary loan.
• You can use the various facilities available in the library. For more information, please see the Shizuoka main library floor guide or the Hamamatsu branch floor guide on the library website.
• Wireless LAN connectivity to the campus network is available at all library locations. You can connect your wireless devices (laptop, smartphone, etc.) to the campus Wi-Fi.
• At the Shizuoka Main Library, you may borrow a laptop that can be used in the library. You need your student ID card to borrow a laptop.
• At the Hamamatsu Branch Library, you can use laptops at the PC work area.

What is ‘Lib★Navi’ ?

• ‘Lib★Navi (Library Navigator)’ is a guidebook to use the Shizuoka University Library. It is one of the material of guidance for freshmen.
• We use ‘Lib★Navi’ as a reference material of the Library seminar for freshmen.
• Please check ‘Lib★Navi’ if you have any question about using our library.

What service can we use online?

• You can search for materials held in Shizuoka University Library on the OPAC. The OPAC is an online tool for searching materials available in the library which you can use anytime, anywhere online.
• Not only printed books and articles, you can use Electronic Journal/Book titles and Databases which Shizuoka University Library subscribes. You can use some of them with your own Shizuoka University’s Microsoft365 account (Last Name.First Name.25@shizuoka.ac.jp) and password when you are off campus.
• ‘myLibrary’ is an online service which you can apply renewing the loan period, requesting books or photocopies of journal articles from other libraries, etc. You need your Shizuoka University’s Microsoft365 account (Last Name.First Name.25@shizuoka.ac.jp) and password to use ‘myLibrary’.
• You can see information of library at the Shizuoka University Library website and Official X. On Official X, we post useful information and various news about our library. Please follow us!

What is ‘the Student Advisory Group’?

• Would you like to join the Student Advisory Group? The members of the Student Advisory Group are students who give opinions and do activities to improve our library.
• As for the activity of last year, please see Shizuoka Main Library Student Advisory Group and Hamamatsu Branch Student Advisory Group.
• If you are interested in, please contact each of the library counters.

We’ll explain in more detail about how to use the library at the library seminar for freshmen.
If you have any question, please feel free to contact the library staffs.

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  Newsletter No.54 is now out!

(2025/03/31)

Newsletter No.54 has been published! (Japanese Only)

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  Cancelled databases

(2025/03/04)

Cancellation of PsycINFO.
The subscription of PscyINFO will be canceled at the end of March 2025.

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  For those who will graduate / For those who will continue to be enrolled

(2025/01/28)

For those who will graduate

The due dates are as follows.

Shizuoka campus: March 21st
Hamamatsu campus: March 18th

Please return the books you borrow by the due date.

For those who will proceed to the graduate school at the Shizuoka University

You can extend the loan period until March 31st. If you need extension, please ask to the library staff. (Weekday open days, 9:00-12:30, 13:30-17:00)
From April, you can borrow library materials after your student card issued.

For those who will continue to be enrolled due to repeating a year etc.

If you are a fourth-year undergraduate student or a second-year graduate student who will continue to be enrolled next academic year due to repeating a year etc., you can extend the loan period until April 17th.
If you need extension, please ask to the library staff. (Weekday open days, 9:00-12:30, 13:30-17:00)