Resumed visiting use by non-KU members from December 1, 2021.
Non-KU members can stay at the reading room up to two hours between 9:00 and 17:00 on weekdays in order to read reserved items. Please apply for a reservation until three opening days before your visit via your university library or a public library. For details, please visit here. (2021.11.24)
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Economics Library opens with following restricted services.
Thank you very much for your understanding.
1. Opening Hours
Monday to Friday: 9:00-20:00
Saturday: 13:00-17:00
*Sunday and Holiday: CLOSED
2. Users
・Kyoto University members
・[After December 1, 2021] Non-KU members who applied for a visiting reservation
*For reservation, please visit here.
3. In Library Room
・Seats in the library room are only for members of Graduate School of Economics, Faculty of Economics, Graduate School of Management and professor emeritus of Kyoto University. Application is required. Please ask to the library desk.
・PC terminals are not available except two PCs.
・Users can browse shelves at the reading room and the stack but please not stay long time.
4. Borrowing
・Borrowing limits are below. (Number in red is extended than normal rule.)
＊Books sealed in purple are treated as textbook, which can be borrowed for 2 weeks and can be renewed one time. Journals are not for borrowing.
| Affiliation (Kyoto University) | Books | Circulation | |
| Graduate School of Economics
Graduate School of Management School of Government |
Full-time faculty e.g. Professor, Associate Professor, Lecturer, and Assistant Professor |
200 volumes | 1 year |
| Part-time faculty e.g. Part-time lecturer, Visiting faculty (researcher), Specially-appointed faculty (researcher), Medical staff/resident, Foreign researcher, Research scientist, etc. |
30 volumes | 6 months | |
| Full-time and part-time staff | 20 volumes | 1 month | |
| Graduate students, Trainees | 50 volumes | 3 months | |
| Undergraduate students, Research students | 20volumes | 1 month | |
| Professor emeritus | 20 volumes | 3 months | |
| Graduate School of Law | Full-time faculty | 50 volumes | 6 months |
| Part-time faculty | 20 volumes | 1 month | |
| Full-time and part-time staff | 10 volumes | 1 month | |
| Graduate students | 30 volumes | 3 months | |
| Undergraduate students | 10 volumes | 2 weeks | |
| Professor emeritus | 10 volumes | 2 weeks | |
| Others | Full-time and part-time faculty | 20 volumes | 1 month |
| Full-time and part-time staff | 10 volumes | 1 month | |
| Graduate and undergraduate students | 10 volumes | 2 weeks | |
| Professor emeritus | 10 volumes | 2 weeks | |
Place a Hold Service
In order to shorten staying library, we accept loan requests by e-mail. If you wish to do so, please follow the format below and contact us at least one day in advance. You can reserve up to 10 items at once.
To: 040etsuran[at]mail2.adm.kyoto-u.ac.jp (Economics Library) *replace [at] with @
Subject: Borrowing request
Body:
your name:
student ID:
title(s):
volume number(s):
material ID(s):
We will email you after reserving your items. Then you can pick up the items at Economics Library’s service counter after 1 P.M. on the next opening day for one week*. Please bring your library user card (student/faculty ID) with you.
*Journals are for three opening days only.
5. Returning
・Return the item(s) to the book post. It is at the entrance.
・You can also return them by postal mail or other delivery services.
e.g. Yu-Pack (parcel), Letter Pack
Users are to pay the delivery fee.
・Sending Address: Economics Library, Kyoto University
Yoshida Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
TEL 075-753-3412
・Pack the library materials appropriately so that they are not damaged in transit.
・Specify on the package that library materials are inside.
・Keep the copy of the delivery invoice in case of accidents.
6. Renewing
・The loan period can be renewed the following number of times. (Number in red is extended than normal rule.)
・Please renew your loan period online through MyKULINE before the due date.
・The renewal period is the period from the date the renewal process is executed
・If someone has reserved the book, it cannot be renewed.
・If you have a book that is overdue, you cannot renew it.
| Loan period | Renewal period | Maximum number of renewals |
| Within 1 year | 6 months | 1 time |
| Within 6 months | 3 months | 1 time |
| Within 3 months | 3 months | 2 times |
| Within 1 month | 1 month | 2 times |
| Within 2 weeks | 2 weeks | 2 times |
7. Materials
・Journals can be borrowed only for one day. Please make sure return it 15 minutes before closing. *Latest issue (new arrival) cannot be borrowed or copied.
・For reading rare materials, application is required. Please visit here.
・Microfilm reader can be used in short time.
8. Preventive measures required
In order to prevent the spread of the COVID-19, please continue to act carefully.
– Those suspected to be infected and those with symptoms typically caused by COVID-19 are not admitted to the library.
– Wash hands.
– Wear a mask.
– Keep a distance from other users.
– Leave the library immediately after borrowing library items.
【Economics Library】 (last update: 2022.04.22)