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  Library Tips for Freshmen

(2023/04/03)

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 910,000 and the Hamamatsu branch holds about 300,000 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.
    • You can use PCs at the PC work area. (This service is currently only available in the Hamamatsu Branch Library.)
    • 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.

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 textbook 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 SHIZUDAI ID 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 SHIZUDAI ID and password to use ‘myLibrary’.
    • You can see information of library at the Shizuoka University Library website and Official Twitter. On Twitter, 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.49 has been published!

(2023/03/30)

Newsletter No.49 has been published!/

-(P1) We are pleased to inform you that we have over 3000 followers on Twitter!
-(P2-3) OPAC and myLibrary in question and answer.

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  Library services (from April 3rd)

(2023/03/30)

Please see the “Response to COVID-19” page for library services from Monday, April 3rd.

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  Cancellation of Web of Science (-2023.3)

(2023/02/17)

Cancellation of Web of Science.
The subscription to Web of Science will be canceled at the end of March 2023.

・Web of Science
・JCR (Journal Citation Reports)
・ESI (Essential Science Indicators)

Click here (On-Campus page) for more information.

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  [restored]About login errors in myLibrary

(2023/02/09)

mylibrary has been restored and you can now log in.

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Due to a server error, you are currently unable to log in to myLibrary.
We will let you know in this news when it is restored.
We apologize for any inconvenience.

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

(2023/01/30)

■For those who will graduate

The due date is the same date of the graduation ceremony. (Shizuoka campus: March 22nd, Hamamatsu campus: March 23rd)
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, 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 18th.
If you want extension, please ask to the library staff. (Weekday, 9:00-12:30, 13:30-17:00)

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  Newsletter No.48 has been published!

(2023/01/27)

Newsletter No.48 has been published!/

On December 1, 2022, OPAC and myLibrary will be redesigned.
Pages 1-4 in this issue describe the new screens and features.

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  Extended Checkout for Spring Vacation (Students only)

(2023/01/23)

The loan period and return date during the spring vacation are as follows.
If you are going to graduate, the due date is 3/22 (Fri.) for Shizuoka Campus students and 3/21 (Thu.) for Hamamatsu Campus students.

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  “Foundations of American Government,Series3(1799-1819)” is available(On Campus).

(2023/01/18)

“Foundations of American Government,Series3(1799-1819)” is available.

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Foundations of American Government,Series3(1799-1819)
◆A database of a vast amount of primary sources on the central and local governments of the 19th-century United States.

[Access(On Campus)] https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/readex/welcome?p=TOPAMGOVX　
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  Suspension of ILL (Inter Library Loan/Photocopy) Request. (Sat.) 21st – (Mon.) 30th January

(2023/01/13)

National Institute of Informatics has informed us of a system suspension due to the system migration to the new NACSIS-CAT/ILL. In accordance with it, ILL Request will be handled as follows.

＜NACSIS-CAT/ILL system suspension period＞
　NACSIS-ILL　 From (Mon.) 23rd January to (Tue.) 31st January
　NACSIS-CAT　 From (Tue.) 10th January to (Tue.) 31st January

Information： National Institute of Informatics

＊NACSIS-CAT/ILL is a nationwide system for ILL services and for forming a comprehensive catalog database in Japan.

Suspension of ILL (Inter Library Loan/Photocopy) Request

ILL Request will be suspended from (Sat.) 21st January to (Mon.) 30th January.

• During the period of suspension of ILL Request, you can still enter new applications through myLibrary. Requests to other universities (including those between Shizuoka Main Library and Hamamatsu Branch Library) will be processed in order from (Tue) 31st January. ILL Requests to public libraries in the prefecture will be made as usual.
• Because some libraries stop accepting requests from other universities before and after NACSIS-ILL suspension period, it may take a few days longer than usual to arrive at the library.
• You can receive the materials that are notified of their arrival by (Fri.) 20th January during the suspension period.

Note

• During the above NACSIS-CAT suspension period, a part of the book cataloging operations will be affected. As a result, it may take longer than usual to register purchased books for equipment and to check them out to research rooms.
• (The planned suspension of OPAC and myLibrary is scheduled separately, and the period of suspension partly overlaps with this case. Information
• If there is a change in the schedule for the migration of the NACSIS-CAT/ILL system, the library’s suspension period may also be subject to change.