Due to the typhoon, the service hours on October 22nd(Sun.) and 23rd(Mon.) may be changed. We will inform the service hours of the day through "ICU Portal" as soon as we decide. Thank you for your understanding.
ICU Archives & Special Collections is exhibiting historical materials focusing on Tane Takahashi, who contributed to the construction of a new university as the first director of the library in the early days of ICU. ICU Library is displaying books by Elizabeth Vining, who considerably influenced the educational ideas in post-war Japan, on the first floor of the Main Library. Please come and take a look:)
For searching books, journals, academic papers, etc. you needed to search from ICU OPAC or each databases.
By using ICU Discovery, you can cross-search all databases available and ICU OPAC.
We will show you efficient ways to make full use of this search system.
Date: October 27th (Fri) 3:10-4:20pm
Place: Multimedia room @ICU Library
Language: Japanese
Reservation: Not Needed
- What's ICU Discovery?
ICU Discovery allows you to search 300 million items available at the library, including databases the library subscribes to, books and journals in the library's collection, and academic resources available for free online.
We recommend ICU students to pay overdue fine once a term.
Please check the amount of your overdue fine on "MyLibrary", and pay it by ticket at the Document Supply Center of ICU Library during the following hours. If you have any overdue material(s) now, the amount of your overdue fine will increase after you return or renew it (them).
Mon-Fri in term : 9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Sat & out of term : 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
If you would like to pay expensive overdue fine partially, please consult us about the amount at the counter before you purchase the ticket.
Evacuation drill is postponed to October 18 (Wed.) Please refer to the following information.
All users are kindly requested to join our drill. Please follow the direction of the library staff and evacuate to the lawn in front of Othmer library Entrance steps. The library will be available after the drill is completed.
NOTE *Please bring your valuables when evacuate. *Please save your computer files before evacuation.
（1）You can search the following e-Books through OPAC.
The number of e-Books will increase.
You can search only by the titles. You can't search by authors, themes, etc. Please see e-Book Navi for details.
（2）E-Journals information is added on the OPAC journal search result. You can search for available E-Journals of ICU by Journal Titles.
All users are kindly requested to join our drill. Please follow the direction of the library staff and evacuate to the lawn in front of Othmer library Entrance steps. The library will be available after the drill is completed.
NOTE *Please bring your valuables when evacuate. *Please save your computer files before evacuation.
ASRS is now in operation. We apologize for inconvenience caused.
Due to trouble, books can not be retrieved from the ASRS. We will inform here as soon as the system is restored.We thank you for your cooperation in advance.
Oxford Handbooks Online trial service will start as below. Please feel free to use it.
"Oxford Handbooks Online" is an outstanding collection of the best handbooks in 14 and growing subject areas. One of the most prestigious and successful strands of Oxford’s scholarly publishing, the Handbook series contain in-depth, high-level articles by scholars at the top of their field.
We made new portal site of e-Book collections. Get Access!→e-Book Navi
Nikkei Telecom is the ideal database for your job search for searching Japanese financial and company information (Session language is Japanese.)
Under the theme of "Yatte, TRI-LINGUAL!" , we display language textbooks and self-learning books of French, German, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Korea and so on, at the bookshelf for display on the first floor of the Main Library. Please come and take a look.
Due to the maintenance, BNC Online will be stopped during the following date and time.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Due to the maintenance, Japan Knowledge will be stopped during the following date and time.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Under the theme of "Book Selection by the winners of Scavenger hunt 2017", books purchased for the winners of Scavenger hunt are the exhibition on the bookshelf on the first floor of the Main Library. Please come and take a look.
Monday, September 11 is the due date of summer break check out for ICU students. Please check your MyLibrary and return or renew books by the due date.
Writing Support Desk office has moved to the ground floor of the Othmer Library. Please ask anything about WSD at the desk in front of the office.
Three Japanese legal information DVDs are now in service.
"Saiko Saibansho Hanrei Kaisetsu (Supreme Court Judgements Annotated)", "Jurist" and "Hanrei Times"(case law journals).
The library orientation is going to be held all day in September 4th (Mon). We will be open as usual (Out of Term) on that day. We apologize for any inconvenience caused and appreciate your understanding and cooperation in advance.
The e-book collection, “Books at JSTOR” will be provided from September 1st (Fri). You can access it from ICU Discovery.
You can search approximately 24,000 e-books (all disciplines, published before 2014, including free contents) published by 34 publisher through the database same as “JSOTR” (database of full text articles of back numbers of journals.) It’s definitely helpful to your report, thesis, and so on.