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After about a year of remodeling, the Tokyo Main
Library launched several new services on October 1, 2004.
From October, you can request most of the materials
directly on the NDL-OPAC (National Diet Library Online Public Access Catalog)
terminal in the Library. When you request the materials, you can also check
where they are and whether they are in use. The request status and arrival
information of the materials can be seen both on the NDL-OPAC terminal
and on the arrival information monitor in the Library.
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1. User Card
At the visitors' entrance, the user card will be issued to you. The
user card is required when searching, requesting, receiving, and returning
library materials, and having them photocopied. Be careful not to leave
your card anywhere until you leave the Library.
2. User Registration
If you are a registered user, you can have a user card issued by simply
holding your registered-user card over the sensor of the machine and inputting
your password, so procedures to enter the Library will be simplified. We
recommend you to register before visiting the Library. |
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| 3. Visiting Procedures |
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The Tokyo Main Library has two entrances: the entrance of
the Main Building is for registered users, and the other of the Annex is
for non-registered users. At the entrance, you must have a user card issued
by the User Card Issuing Machine (photo 1).
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| You can enter the Library by touching the sensor of the entrance gate
with your user card (photo 2). When leaving the Library, your user card
will be collected at the exit gate (photo 3). |
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4. Searching and Requesting materials
NDL-OPAC terminals (photo 4) are installed in the Catalog Halls and
the Special Materials Rooms. Set the user card in the holder of the NDL-OPAC
terminal (photo 5), and search materials on the NDL-OPAC. Most of materials
owned by the NDL are searchable through the NDL-OPAC. If you find the materials
you want to use, make request them and check the counter at which you can
receive them. For some materials in the Special Materials Rooms, you may
have to request at the counter of the correct room.
If you do not understand how to search materials, please don't hesitate
to ask the staff of the Catalog Halls. |
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5. Receiving materials
You can check the arrival of materials on the Arrival Information Monitors
(photo 6) or on the "Arrival/Dispatch Information" page (photo 7) of the
NDL-OPAC terminals. The Arrival Information Monitors are installed in front
of the Book Counter and the Periodicals Counter, and in the Reading Rooms
and the Special Material Rooms. After receiving materials at the designated
counter, please read them in the Reading Rooms. |
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6. Copying Service
To request the copying service, you may make a Copying Request Form
on the terminal for copying request (photo 8). |
When you set your user card, the materials that you are
using will be displayed on the terminal screen, and you can choose the
material that you want to have copied. User name and title of the material
will be already printed on the Copying Request Form, so write only the
necessary information such as the volume and page numbers, etc. After that
insert the bookmark to indicate the portions to be copied, and submit the
request form and the materials to the Copying Center. You can check the
arrival of copies to be received on the monitor in front of the Copying
Center.
To request copying of the materials in the Special Materials Rooms,
please follow the necessary procedure for taking the materials out of the
room. |
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7. Online Copying Service
This is one of our new services. You can request copying of articles
found in the Japanese Periodicals Index directly on the NDL-OPAC terminal,
without requesting and receiving the journals which carry them. Online
Copying Service is available on the "Searching and Requesting for Japanese
Periodicals Index" Page (photo 9). |
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8. Opening Hours and Library Holidays
The Tokyo Main Library has expanded its opening days and hours since
October 1, 2004. New Library holidays and opening hours are the following:
Library Holidays:
Sundays, National holidays, the yearend and New Year's holidays and
the third Wednesday of the month (for refiling) |
Opening Hours:
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Monday-Friday
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Saturday
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| Library hours |
9:30-19:00
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9:30-17:00
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| General Information desk |
9:30-19:00
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9:30-17:00
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| Request for materials |
9:30-18:00
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9:30-16:00
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| Same-day copying service |
10:00-18:00
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10:00-16:00
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| Regular copying service |
10:00-18:30
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10:00-16:30
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| Online copying requests |
10:00-17:30
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10:00-15:30
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English-version NDL-OPAC has been available on
this website since 24 September, 2004.
NDL-OPAC
(English version)
(Please note that the English version of NDL-OPAC
provides only search functions; remote-service request functions are available
only in the Japanese version.) |
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