Information for children

EventsFor those who are new to the library● Get issued with a library card at the counter.
● You can use your library card at any Hiroshima City library.
☆ Story Hours
You can borrow up to ten

books from all branches
for two weeks .
ブックル※You can reserve or request
up to a total of 20 books.

Infants and elementary school students
Readings from picturebooks, plus storytelling☆ Elementary School Student Story Club
Elementary school students
 Readings from story picturebooks, plus storytelling

How to look for a book Talking about your favorite books● You can look for a book on the library’s computers or on the Handicrafts

Internet at home.
● If the book has been lent out or you can’t find it in the library,Books Are Friends

you can reserve it.
(Write the book’s title down in a Reservation/Request Form
Opening
Days
Opening
Hours

Tuesday toSunday

9：00 a.m. ‐ 5：00 p.m.

and bring the form to the library staff. To reserve a book via
your PC, you need a password registered.)

How to borrow a book
Bring books you want to borrow to the person at the counter,

Closed Days

We have many other joyful events!

Monday (except holidays)

with your card.

The day following a holiday

And you can also use the automatic book lending machine

The last day of the odd months

near the counter.

Year end and New Year horidays
Special inventory periods* See the Library Calendar for more details!

How to return a book
Just return the books to the Return Counter!
When the library is closed, put the books into the “BookReturn Box”!

※ Please ask the person at the counter about anything you
don’t understand.

Information for adults● Library cards:
Are valid for all Hiroshima City libraries.
For readers’ groups and volunteers, there is a group borrowing
system that allows up to 50 books to be borrowed for one month● To find out whether a book you want to borrow is available:
Do a search via the user terminals inside the library, or via thewebsite at:
http://www.library.city.hiroshima.jp/● To reserve a book in the library’s collection:
titleandotherdetails

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Reservation/Request Form and submit it to a staff member. Youcan also reserve books via fax, the City Library’s website, or theuser terminals inside the library. (To reserve books via your PC,
you will need to register a password in advance.)● Advice on books to read
We offer assistance on how to search for documents, and on using
documents for investigation and research.
We will also answer your questions, and give advice, concerning
children’s activities for building ties between children and books,
such as our Story Hours. Please feel free to make inquiries – byphone or fax if you wish.
● Copying Service
We offer a copying service, for copying of the library’s
documents only. The documents may be copied within the limitsof the Copyright Law.
To get copies of documents, fill out a Copy Application Form andpresent it at the counter in the Looking-up Room on the secondfloor. The charge per sheet is 10 yen for black/white copies and20 yen for color copies.

Children’s books
Children’s culture☆ Mother’s Knee Story Hour
Participants: Toddlers (age around 1 year upward) and parents
Listening to readings from picturebooks andplaying hand-games, etc.

at a time.

Write theEvents of various kinds are held at the Children’s Library.
(Some of the events are aimed at adults – please feel free toparticipate.)

Hiroshima City Children’s
Library is a libraryspecializing in☆ Story Hour for Expectant Fathers and Mothers
Participants: Soon-to-be moms, and their partners or theirfamilies;
also under-1-year-olds and parents★ Reading Club for adults who enjoy children’s books(reading club for enjoying picturebooks and children’sliterature)
Participants: People with an interest in children’s books

It is available for both adults and children to use.

As the core library serving children among the networkof 13 Hiroshima City libraries, we provide with various
projects for bringing books and children together.

☆ Children’s Culture Lectures
Participants: People with an interest in children’s books☆ “I do like books!” Children’s Culture Lectures
Participants: Children from about 4-year-old to high school
students. (Lectures by and discussion sessions
with authors of children’s books)☆ Lectures to foster volunteers for bringing children andbooks together
Participants: People who give readings of books in locals
and/or schools, and people with an interested indoing so
For people who work at preschools, kindergartens and schools● Library tours
We offer tours for whole grades or classes from your center,kindergarten or school. In this tour, we show over our library andexplain how to use it. We can also arrange story readings andbook talks for your students.
● Make use of our group lending service
We can provide readings, lessons on looking things up, and otherassistance for groups.
For details, call (082) 221-6755.

Incorporated foundation
Hiroshima City Cultural Foundation
Hiroshima City Children’s Library730-0011
5-83 Motomachi, Naka-ku, Hiroshima CityTEL (082) 221-6755
FAX (082) 222-7020

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