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Medical Library website and Lib. of Human Health Sciences website will be suspended due to their system maintenamce during the following period.
We appreciate your support and patience.

Schedule
PM 6:00 - 7:00 on Monday,  7 April 2025

 [Medical Library]

The Kyoto University Library Network is hosting a Stamp Collecting.

Visit several libraries within Kyoto University, scan the posted QR codes with your smartphone, and collect stamps!
Depending on the number of stamps you collect, you can receive original library goods.

If you're curious about what a university library is like, please join us.
All KU members can participate.

For details on how to participate in the Stamp Collecting and the terms of use, please refer to the following website.

Event Website - Kyoto University Library Stamp Collecting -

https://stamprally.digital/kulib?sr=1180

Recommended Environment:
iPhone: iOS 13 or later + Safari (browser)
Android: Android 10 or later + Chrome (browser)
* Accessible only via smartphone.

Period

April 2 (Wed.) - 30 (Wed.), 2025

• Opening days and hours vary depending on libraries.
  Details: https://www.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/pical (select the library from the dropdown)
• Redeem your reward at the desk at Main Library during the following times:
  Date:  April 7 (Mon.) - 30 (Wed.)
  Time: 9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Checkpoints

• Main Library (3 stamp points)
• Yoshida-South Library (2 stamp points)
• The Library of the Graduate School of Letters and Faculty of Letters
• Graduate School of Education and Faculty of Education Library
• Faculty of Law Library
• Library of Graduate School of Economics and Faculty of Economics
• The North Library, Graduate School of Engineering and Faculty of Engineering
• The North Library Learning Commons
• The South Library, Graduate School of Engineering and Faculty of Engineering
• The South Library Learning Commons
• Graduate School of Informatics Library
• Faculty of Science Common Library
• Graduate School / Faculty of Agriculture Library
• Medical Library (2 stamp points)
• Library of Human Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine
• Library of Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
• Katsura Library (*)  (2 stamp points)
• Uji Library (*)
• Inuyama Campus Library (*)

1) You can start the Stamp Collecting from any point.
2) Libraries with (*) are located outside of Yoshida Campus.

Contact Us

Kyoto University Library, User Support Division
E-mail: user-support-full660 [at] mail2.adm.kyoto-u.ac.jp

The Maintenance work was completed (2025/3/31 9:10) and the service has been restored.

Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive will suspend its service due to the system maintenance for about 15 minutes from 9:00 am, March 31, 2025.
The service will be restored as soon as the maintenance work has been completed. Thank you for your understanding.

The Kyō-ō Gokokuji Documents (monjo) were discovered by Toshihide Akamatsu in the treasure house of Toji Temple in 1937. After the war, Kyoto University borrowed, organized and transcribed them. In 1968, they were given to Kyoto University. In 1971, these documents designated as a National Important Cultural Property. The collection consists of 3043 documents that date from the Heian period (794-1185) through the Azuchi-Momoyama period (1568-1600).
This time, images of 310 of these documents has been newly released on Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive.

▼The Kyoto University Museum - Kyō-Ō Gokokuji Documents

"播磨国矢野荘西方河成・水損内検帳"

"播磨国矢野荘公田分学衆方年貢并雑物等算用状"

"東寺湯結番定文"

As of March 27, 2025, Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive provides 2,155,567 images of 25,905 titles.

Main library will hold "Your First Book in KU Library" and "Main Library Self-Tour" for freshers!

We are looking forward to your participation.

●Your First Book in KU Library

What was the first book you borrowed from Kyoto University?

Please submit the title of the first book you borrowed and a brief comment using the webform.
All participants will receive original library goods.
For details, check the poster!

●Main Library Self-Tour

You can study with friends while having discussions, use old materials in the stacks, etc.
There are many ways to use the library!
Let's go around the library with a floor map in hand and get an overview of each area and how to use it!

The starting point is the bulletin board in front of Learning Commons on 1st Floor!
Useful information about using the library is also posted on the bulletin board.

【Contact】
附属図書館利用支援課情報企画掛
Email:ref660(at)mail2.adm.kyoto-u.ac.jp

In March 2025, the top page of KURENAI, Kyoto University Research Information Repository, was renewed!

KURENAI was begun in 2006 with the aim of widely disseminating the products of education and research produced at Kyoto University and making them accessible to everyone in the world, and will celebrate its 20th anniversary in 2026.
For 20 years, we've shared over 200,000 achievements with the world, including iPS cell papers, Kyoto University doctoral dissertations, and humanities and social sciences e-journals. Thank you for supporting KURENAI.
Thank you very much for your patronage of KURENAI over the years.

This renewal includes a redesigned top page that is easier to use and view.
We hope you will enjoy the new KURENAI.

In February 2025, the "KURENAI Deposit System" that is a system for applying for registration of papers subject to the Open Access Policy in the Kyoto University Repository for Academic Information will also be reborn.
Please use this system as well.

KURENAI will continue to promote the dissemination of Kyoto University's research results and contribute to the development of academic information.
Thank you for your continued support of KURENAI.

Medical Library  is going to entrust the payment for Interlibrary Loan/Photocopy at private expenses to the co-op from April 2025.

We can send ILL items and bills to your laboratory if you need.

*Copies only

If you would like to receive it at your laboratory, please enter the following in the Comments field:

"I want to receive it in the lab."
Name of your lab

Please bring the bills and pay at the co-op shop within one week after receiving them.

*We cannot send books to the laboratory. Please come to the library to pick them up.

*In the case of public expenses, only copies can be received at the laboratory.