[Main Library] Library Hours during the year-end and New Year holidays
The Main Library will observe the following hours during the year-end and New year holidays.
Tuesday Dec.28, 2021: open between 9am-5pm
* Check the service hours as follows
Dec.29-31, 2021 & Jan.1-3, 2022: CLOSED
Tuesday Jan.4, 2022: open between 9am-10pm
* Study Room 24: open between 9am-10pm
The service hours for Tuesday Dec. 28, 2021:
1 Registration of library user cards and MyKULINE accounts: until 4pm
* We are now accepting registration of library user cards and MyKULINE accounts only via email.
For more information, please visit here.
* You can also apply for registration at these libraries.
2 Learning Support Desk: until 4pm
3 Reference Service: until 4pm
4 Interlibrary Loan Service: until 3pm
5 Micro Resources: until 3pm
6 NDL Digital Collections: until 3pm
7 Rare Materials (Reservation required): until 3pm
8 Stack room: until 4pm
* Books bound in Japanese style on the B3F will be available until 3pm.
9 3F: until 4:30pm
10 1-2F: until 5pm
11 Study room 24: until 5pm
■ Important Notice About Interlibrary loan (ILL) Service
Almost all university libraries will close during Year-end and New Year holidays and stop the ILL service.
See here and know more about the ILL Service.
[Learning Support Desk] Grad. staff will consult you in Yoshida South Library (2022/1/11-2/4)
Do you have any trouble with the exam or your learning at KU? The grad staff of the Learning Support Desk will consult you in Yoshida South Library on 1/11-2/4. Please feel free to contact us.
Contact:
User Support Section, Main Library
Email: ref660 [at] mail2.adm.kyoto-u.ac.jp
[User Support Section, Main Library]
[Main Library]The library hours and services from January 11 to February 7, 2022
[Library Network] Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive: Six items, including books from Adam Smith’s Library and Chinese classic text of geography and astronomy in Ming dynasty, have been newly released
Six items held by the Graduate School of Law and Yoshida-South Library have been newly released.
“Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa” held by the Graduate School of Law is a former collection of Adam Smith. A bookticket is attached to each volume, and an autograph letter addressed by MacIntosh to Adam Smith is inserted in vol.1.
This book is a travelogue consisting of 72 letters, and appendix B contains an observations of Smith’s “An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations.”

Left: bookticket / Center: autograph letter addressed to Adam Smith / Right: appendix B
Five items held by Yoshida-South Library are Chinese classic text of geography, astronomy and book series published in Ming dynasty.
“De tu zeng yao” (地圖綜要) was donated by Motoharu Fujita, a geographer and a professor at the Third Higher School.

| Library | Record ID | Title | Author | Call No |
| Yoshida-South Library | RB00033234 | 地圖綜要 | (明)李釜源鑒定 ; (明)朱國達 [ほか] 編輯 | 三高貴重書(和):533//167/三高和 |
| RB00033235 | 雪廬讀史快編 60卷 | (明)趙維寰節 | 三高貴重書(和):515//62/三高和 | |
| RB00033236 | 治暦縁起 8巻 | (明)徐光啓 [撰] | 三高貴重書(和):640//157/三高和 | |
| RB00033237 | 方輿勝畧 18巻外夷6巻首1巻 | (明)程百二等輯 | 三高貴重書(和):533//57/三高和 | |
| RB00033238 | 李氏叢書 | (明)李贄 | 三高貴重書(和):010//8/三高和 | |
| G. S. Law | RB00033239 | Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa : describing characters, customs, manners, laws, and productions of nature and art : containing various remarks on the political and commercial interests of Great Britain : and delineating, in particular, a new system for the government and improvement of the British settlements in the East Indies : begun in the year 1777, and finished in 1781 | Macintosh, William and Thomson, William | 一般貴重書(洋):CIII||2||Mac |
As of December 23, 2021, the Digital Archive provides 1,668,590 images of 20,570 titles.
[Eng. Lib.]Katsura Library, The North Library and The South Library in Yoshida campus will be closed
Katsura Library, The North Library and The South Library in Yoshida campus will be closed on the following schedule.
From Dec. 28, 2021 to January 4, 2022
※ During this period, the all services will be paused, including the receiving service.
Contact:
Katsura Library
E-mail:090stosho [at] mail2.adm.kyoto-u.ac.jp
The North Library, Graduate School of Engineering and Faculty of Engineering (Yoshida campus)
E-Mail: 090snorthlib[at]mail2.adm.kyoto-u.ac.jp
The South Library, Graduate School of Engineering and Faculty of Engineering (Yoshida campus)
E-Mail: 090ssouthlib[at]mail2.adm.kyoto-u.ac.jp

