Shizuoka Main Library User’s Guide

Contents Library Introduction Video Visiting the Library Service Hours Closings Checkout Limit & Loan Period Borrowing / Returning Renewal Research Hold & Request Recommend a Title for Purchase Reference Services Interlibrary Loan (ILL) Services Computing and Projector

Library Introduction Video

ShizudaiTV program「附属図書館 静岡本館ってどんなところ？ しずっぴーと一緒に！」(7:48)
「Pepperが案内する 静岡本館 館内ツアー」(4:39)

Visiting the Library

You need to scan your student ID or library card when you enter and leave the library and borrow library materials.

• If you do not have the ID, please contact the User Service staff.
• Graduate students need to present your student ID when entering the Closed Stacks.
• You may use your student ID/library card at any Shizuoka University Libraries.

Service Hours

* Weekend & Holiday Services: Check-out, renewal and return of materials / Access to open-stack materials / Use of thin-client computer terminals and self-service copiers & printers.
* Reference services are NOT available on weekends and holidays.

Closings

• New Year Holidays （Dec. 28th – Jan. 4th）
• During the university entrance exam period.
• Saturdays & Sundays on March
• During the inventory period.
• Library hours are subject to change. It will be notified on the board and the Library Website.

Checkout Limit & Loan Period

• Each item may be renewed one time if no hold/request has been placed.
• Loan periods may be extended over breaks.
• To apply for the special circulation service, please contact library staff.
• If you fail to return books by the due date, your borrowing privileges will be suspended for the total number of overdue days.

Borrowing / Returning

Borrowing

• Self-checkout stations are available for you to borrow library materials. You may also check out items at the Service Counter. You need your student ID or library card to check out library mateials.
• You cannot borrow books which have attached materials, like CDs, at self-checkout station. Please check out items at the Service Counter.
• The library exit has a security system. If you fail to check out any library materials, it beeps and the gate will not open.

Returning

• Self-checkin stations are available for you to return library materials. You can also return items at the Service Counter.
• You can use the drop-off box when the library is closed. Only books of the Shizuoka University Library can be returned to the drop-off box. Please return following materials at the Service Counter; serials, books which have attached materials (CDs, CD-ROMs, etc.), audio visual materials, items borrowed from other libraries.
• You cannot borrow the same materials on the day of return.

Returning (borrwed at Shizuoka Prefectural Central Library)

• You can return materials which you have borrowed at Shizuoka Prefectural Central Library at the Circulation Counter of Shizuoka University Library.

Renewal

• You can renew library item (book) once as long as no hold/request has been placed.
• You can renew items online through myLibrary, at the self-checkout station or at the Service Counter.

Research

• The library catalog, OPAC, contains the holdings of Shizuoka University Libraries.
• All library books are arranged NDC (Nippon Decimal Classification).
• Serials are arranged in alphabetic order by title.
• Library materials are shelved not only in the reading rooms but also in cloed stacks and faculty offices.

Accessibility

*1 You may download and print out from OPAC.
*2 Fill out the Facility Request Form when you want to browse the collection instead of picking up items that library staff have retrieved for you.

Closed Stacks

• You need to fill out a Request Form so that library staff can retrieve the item for you to pick up.
• Shizuoka University faculty, staff and graduate students and undergraduate students who have the permission may access the closed stacks to browse materials. Please do not forget to scan your ID or library card at the PC at next to the elevator on the fourth floor when entering the closed stack area.
• Undergraduate students who want to have the permission need to apply at the Service Counter in advance. Please contact library staff.
• Library staff will give you a tour when you enter the closed stack area for the first time.

Photocopy Services

• Self-service copy machines are located in the Photocopy Corner on the 4th floor near the Reference Counter.
• You need either a copy card or coins to use these copiers. Copy cards can be purchased from the vending machines near the copiers.
• Copy Application Form [PDF]

Hold & Request

You can place a hold on a title that is checked out or place a request on an item that is not available at your library.

• We will notify you by phone or email when the item is available for pickup. The item will be held for you at the Service Counter for about one week.
• To place a hold, find the item in OPAC and press the [Hold/Request] button.
• You cannot place a hold while your borrowing privileges are suspended.

Recommend a Title for Purchase

The library welcomes suggestions from students for titles to consider purchasing. Please recommend us a book, journal or other information resource which support your study and research.

• Recommendation can be made online through myLibrary. Before submitting a suggestion, please check the online catalog to make sure the title you want is not owned by any Shizuoka University Libraries. Please include your telephone number and e-mail address on the form.
• A student may recommend up to three titles with a limit of 10,000 yen per year.
• Your suggestions will be carefully evaluated at the acquisition meeting.

Reference Services

Reference librarians help you make effective use of the library resources by advising you on the use of the catalog and website and suggesting appropriate databases for your subject area.
If you have any questions, please visit the Reference Counter.

Library Seminar

• All Shizuoka University freshmen will take a Basic Library Seminar during regularly scheduled class times; you will have a library tour and learn how to locate library items.
• If you want to improve your research skill, please contact a Reference Service librarian to arrange an Advanced Library Seminar.
• We also offer seminars on databases and electronic journals.
• Please check out library news for schedules.

Referral Service

We issue a referral letter, enabling you to be referred to other institutes, including other university libraries, for use of specific items that are not available at Shizuoka University. You are encouraged to verify their access policies on their websites before requesting the letter. You are expected to bring your Student ID along with the referral letter to the institute.

• If you need a referral letter, please fill out Letter of Introduction Application form [PDF] / [Word] and apply to the reference counter.
• It will take at least two business days to issue a referral letter.
• Please note that it might be restricted for external users to access the institute during weekends and intersession.

Interlibrary Loan (ILL) Services

If you need an item that is not available at any Shizuoka University Libraries, you can obtain photocopy or borrow books from other campus or other university libraries.

Making an ILL request

• Please log-in to ‘myLibrary’ and go to ‘ILL Request’ in the menu, and click ‘New request’, then fill out the application form.
• If you cannot access ‘myLibrary’, fill out this ILL Request Form [PDF] / [Word] and bring it to the counter.
• Request cannot be cancelled after it is accepted.

Request type

Obtaining photocopy

• You can ask for a photocopy of paper in a journal, a part of a book (less than half). If some works are in a book, less than half of the individual work can be taken a photocopy.

Borrowing books

• You can borrow a book from other library. Loan period is depend on the conditions of the lending library. The use is occasionally limited in the library.
• Journals cannot be borrowed.

Terms of payment

• A teacher can select pay type ‘Public’ or ‘Private’. A student makes only ‘Private’ payment.
• If a teacher allow a student to make a ‘Public’ payment, please inform the student of teacher’s Budget code. The student logs in to ‘myLibrary’ with its own user ID. In the comment section, please write “I request photocopy / loan with permission of professor XXX, Budget code XXX”. The student can select ‘Private’ as pay type. Librarian will contact the teacher, then change to ‘Public’.

Time by Range of request

Other campus in Shizuoka University

• You can only ask for a photocopy. Please confirm SUL OPAC before request. It takes approximately a few days to obtain the photocopy.
• If you want to borrow a book from other campus, please find the book in OPAC and click ‘Hold/Request’.

In the country (Other university library)

• We will apply to other university library, Natinal Diet Library. Please confirm CiNii Books, Natinal Diet Library search before request. It takes approximately a week to obtain the photocopy or the book.

Within local public library

• Please confirm Oudan-kun Book Search(the transversal system in Shizuoka Prefecture libraries) before request. It takes approximately two weeks (a week from Shizuoka Prefectural Central Library).

To overseas

• You can ask for a photocopy or a book to overseas. Please confirm World Cat before request. It takes a few weeks to a few months.

*It might take more time if the material you have asked for is on loan. Please give yourself plenty of time to apply for that.

Fee

• You need to pay the photocopying cost (35-60 yen / a monochrome sheet) and delivery cost (100-400 yen) to obtain a photocopy, the round-trip delivery cost (1,000-2,000 yen) to obtain a book from other library. There is no delivery cost from other campus in Shizuoka University and local public libraries in Shizuoka Prefecture.
• The photocopying cost is depend on the owing library. An additional fee will be charged for a color photocopy or special delivery.
• It costs at least several thousand yen to obtain a photocopy or a book from overseas.

Contact method

• We will notify you via email when the photocopy or the book is ready to pick up, or there are confirmation items about your request. Please check email.
• In the case we cannot contact a student, we might contact your teacher or parents.

Computing

• Thin-client computers are available at the PC Work Area on the 4th floor. Personal Booth, Reading Rooms and Harvest Room have wireless connections to the internet.
• In order to log on to the library computer or use the internet, you need an account and password issued at the Center for Information Infrastructure.

Printing from the Thin Clients

• Adding a Network Printer (Main Library)(On Campus)
• How to Print (Main Library)(On Campus)

Connecting to the Shizuoka University Network

• Wired (Center for Information Infrastructure)(On Campus)
• Wireless (Center for Information Infrastructure)(On Campus)

Library Laptop for Loan

Library Projector for Loan