1. Borrowing
Borrowing limits are below.
| Affiliation (Kyoto University) | Number of Loans | Loan Period | |
| Graduate School of Economics
Graduate School of Management |
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 | 2 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 | |
| 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 | |
*Journals and reference books are not for loan.
*Some old books are unable to check out or copy.
*Books with the purple sticker “指定書” are treated as textbooks, which can be borrowed for 2 weeks and renewed only once.
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.
*The journal reservation period is four business days including the day when you received the email from the Economics Library.
2. 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.
3. Reserving
Displayed as “On loan” on KULINE can be reserved. Please reserve through MyKULINE.
(Reference) What should I do if the materials I find via KULINE is already borrowed by someone else?
https://kuline.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/?page_id=80&ml_lang=en
4. Renewing
・The loan period can be renewed the following number of times.
・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 renewal times |
| 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 |
5. Periodicals and Reference books
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.