Temporary Use

• All visitors need to show identification cards at the entrance.
• You can search OAPC to find books and journals held in the library. Materials are free to browse, except those in the closed stacks or researchers' offices.
   

To Issue Library Card

• We can issue a library card if you want to use library continuously or to borrow books. Please apply at the circulation counter with following documents.
   Time to issue cards: 8:30-17:00 on weekdays (We accept application anytime.)
   Necessary documents:
      1) Certification photo (3×2cm)
      2) Public identification card (Note: your present address should be printed. Otherwise, please show another documents like postal matter.)
• The issued card expires at the end of the fiscal year (March 31).

Borrowing & Returning Books

• You can borrow books at the circulation counter.
   Checkout limits: 5 books (Prescribed textbooks, journals and magazines cannot be borrowed.)
   Loan Period: 2 weeks (Extension is not permitted.)
• Please bring books to the circulation counter. When the library is closed, book post is available at the right side of the gate of library.

Book Reservation

Copying Documents

Copying machines are available inside the library (black and white copy: 10 yen per page, full color copy: 50 yen per page).

Ordering our Materials through Public Libraries (Interlibrary Loan)

You can request orders of our books or ask for document delivery through public libraries. Please ask for details at your nearest public library. Document delivery can be also ordered personally.

• Document Delivery 
  Fee: Photocopying fee (Black and white: 40 yen per sheet, Full color: 80 yen per sheet) plus Shipping fee
  Payment: Advance payment is required; please send cash via registered post in advance.

• Ordering Books
   Fee:  Delivery fee for sending and receiving
   Payment: Please enclose equivalent postage stamps when returning books.

Using Research Results of our University

Please search our Research Information Repository, which contains peer-reviewed journal articles, dissertations, departmental bulletin papers and other kinds of scholarly works of our university.