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Library Guide
Library for Social Sciences
2024

Opening & Service Hours
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hours and closed days.

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Web Site

Kobe University Libraryhttps://lib.kobe-u.ac.jp/en/
Library for Social Sciences, Information service section
2-1 Rokkodai, Nada, Kobe 657-8501, Japan
Tel: 078-803-7339 / Fax: 078-803-7343
E-mail: shakei-service@lib.kobe-u.ac.jp

https://lib.kobeu.ac.jp/libraries/en/list/shakai/

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Library Services
Library cards or student IDs are required to usethe library. If you don’t have them, please visit theinformation desk.
■LOAN POLICIES■IN-LIBRARY USE ONLY MATERIALS
Journals, Master's thesis, Doctoral dissertation,
Newspapers, Reference books, Audio visualmaterials, CD-ROMs, Micro-documents, Materials
from the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake Disastermaterials collection, Rare materials.

StacksBrowsing Room

How to find materials

Faculty & Staff

50 books / A year

10 books / 2 weeks

Graduatestudents

20 books/ 2 months

10 books / 2 weeks■CATALOG SEARCH
You can find call numbers and holdings locationof items in Kobe University Library by using OPAC.

Undergraduatestudents

10 books (total amount from Stacks andBrowsing Room) / 2 weeks■BORROWING
If you have a magnetic library card or a student
ID, Automatic Book Circulation are available. If
you don’t have them or if the materials you wantto borrow have no bar code, check-out at theinformation desk.
■RETURNING
Please return materials to the information desk
on before their due dates. When the library isclosed, put books into the book drop located bythe entrance. You can return the books at any ofour libraries. If you have overdue books, you will
not be allowed to borrow another item until theyare returned.
■RENEWALS
Book materials can be renewed before the duedate, unless the book has been reserved byanother user. Most library materials may berenewed any of three ways: online, at theinformation desk, by Automatic Book Circulation.
Please be notified that you cannot make renewals
if you have any overdue book.

■CALL NUMBER
Library for Social Sciences uses two different
call number systems, “Old classification” and “Newclassification”.
[1] A call number that starts with single or double
digit indicates “Old classification”.
ex.) 1-1-2638[2] A call number that starts with more than triple
digit indicates “New classification”.
ex.) 331-KR* Old Classification
P. F. Drucker,
The practice ofmanagement
Call No:
1-1-2638* New classification
P. Krugman,Microeconomics
Call No:
331-KR■HOLDING LOCATION□Social Lib : Stacks
Foreign books are shelved mainly to stacks.
Library cards or student IDs are required toenter/leave the stacks. If you don’t have them,please ask at the information desk. Before
entering the stacks, please put your bag in thelocker by the entrance.

□Laboratory

Items on located in “laboratory” are the books
belong to faculty, and not allowed to be borrowed
normally.
You can request the loan of the book through thelibrary. Please apply online or at the informationdesk. If a teacher does not use the book, you canborrow it.

■ACCESS ITEMS NOT IN SOCIAL SCIENCELIBRARY
The book is located in another library in Kobe
University,The book is checked out to another person,→Loan / Reservation
You want the library to purchase the book,→Purchase Request ( for students )Kobe University Libraries do not own the book.
→Photocopy & Interlibrary Loan
→Visiting Other Libraries---- For more details, check our website or “Kobe
University Library Guide” ---Study Areas
Please use all rooms for browsing and self-study.
Please do not make a clanking noise by keyboard
or calculators and others in SUB READING ROOM.
The LC , Break Room and Group Study Rooms are places
that facilitate active learning and research (includinggroup work).
No food or drink can be brought except bottles withcaps.