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Top > What's New > News > Kansai-kan's opening and service policy for the planned power outage of Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc. (KEPCO)

2012-7-11 Kansai-kan's opening and service policy for the planned power outage of Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc. (KEPCO)

This is to notify the service policy and opening hours of the Kansai-kan during the planned power outage, based on the details of the “Announcement of Possible Planned Power Outage” this summer from KEPCO.

The Kansai-kan is in the planned power outage area. It is in the "3-H" group.

Opening hours may be changed due to the planned power outage in this period:
July 2 (Mon.) - September 7 (Fri.), 2012
*excluding every Saturday, August 13 (Mon.) and August 14 (Tue.) among the days Kansai-kan is open

  1. The Kansai-kan will be closed during the time of a power outage. Depending on the time zone of the power outage, service hours will be changed as follows:
    • (1) The Kansai-kan will be closed for 30 minutes before the start time of a power outage.
    • (2) The Kansai-kan will open one hour after the end of a power outage. We are making every effort to keep to the opening time, but it may be changed depending on the situation.
    • (3) When the power outage starts from 12:30 (the third time zone below), the Kansai-kan will be closed before the start of the power outage and will open again after the end of the power outage. During the power outage, please leave the library premises.
      Opening hours for each time zone of power outage
      Time zone 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th
      Power outage time 8:30-11:00 10:30-13:00 12:30-15:00 14:30-17:00 16:30-19:00 18:30-21:00
      Opening hours 12:00-18:00 14:00-18:00 10:00-12:00
      16:00-18:00
      10:00-14:00 10:00-16:00 10:00-18:00
      (as usual)
    • (4) The end time of request for closed stack materials, photoduplication and etc. are as follows;
      Same-day photoduplication service
      Printouts of microforms and electronic materials
      One hour before closing
      Request for closed stack materials 45 minutes before closing
      Self-service photoduplication 30 minutes before closing
      Later date photoduplication 15 minutes before closing
      On the day of a power outage and the following day, there may be delays in the delivery of materials from the closed stacks to the counters and some materials may not be available.
  2. The decision to change the Kansai-kan opening hours because of power outages will be made after the announcement from KEPCO, which is supposed to be released 2 hours before the start of the power outage. When the Kansai-kan opening hour is changed, we will inform you as soon as possible on our website and Twitter.

We apologize for any inconvenience and we appreciate your understanding.

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