HULibraryNews

Jan.
2024

It’s a new year! Here is the news from Hiroshima University Libraries.

FEATURE Published: Hiroshima University Libraries

www.lib.hiroshima-u.ac.jp

Let’s Borrow Books from Public Libraries in the Prefecture!

Did you know that you can borrow and return books from Hiroshima Prefecture’s public libraries through theHiroshima University library system?
As of now, this service is available for the following 3 libraries.
For those of you who want to borrow a book available at one of these pubic libraries, but feel it’s a little too far
away please confirm the process of this service and try it out! This service is only for members of the university.
For more details please access the information through the provided QR codes.
Higashi-Hiroshima City Library

Just return the books
normally to the circulation
counter!

Central・You must register a Higashi-Hiroshima City Library card.
・On the online reservation form, please select “Hiroshima University
Central Library” for the pickup location and fill in the contact information.
・After the book arrives, please come to the checkout counter andpresent the card you used to make the reservation.
・You can check out: 10 books and journals in total + 3 audiovisual materials.

Hiroshima Prefectural Library

・You must register an account with Hiroshima Prefectural Library.
・After confirming that the item is not available at Hiroshima
University, choose “Hiroshima University Library” as
the pickup location in the online reservation.
（You can pick up the book at any library
except East Library.）
・After the item arrives, go to the library you
specified and present the barcode or mail you
received.
・ You can check out : 10 items

iHiroshima City LibraryCentral・Check that the item is not available at Hiroshima Universitylibraries, and then apply through the dedicated form.
・After the item arrives, please come to thecheckout counter（Central Library）andpresent your student card, employee card, orFriendly Member card.
・You can check out: 5 items

INFORMATION

January’s Events・Announcements

Rapid ILL Start

Starting in January 2024, Hiroshima University Libraries will
introduce the Rapid ILL service! This service allows institutions
to exchange electronic data of various materials, greatly
decreasing the time it takes to receive orders from overseas.
Due to copyright reasons, the materials will be delivered as“paper” copies as before. However, RapidILL greatly increases
the possibility of getting the copies from overseas at a lowprice.
Arrangements
Rapid ILL Participants

Research Result Poster Display

CentralBased on Professor Ko Tomikawa’s(Graduate School of Human andSocial Sciences) book「ヨコエビはなぜ『横』になるのか」(Why does an amphipod lie on itsside?), we are displaying a poster
about the mysterious creature“Gammaridea”.

are made here
first.

It’s called “horizontal shrimp”①②②

Holding Institution

485.3/To-53
Hiroshima
University LibraryUser

Available in Central Library, 2nd floor
Phoenix Collectionand Higashi Senda Library

International Exchange
Plaza (Central Library)
Until the end of January

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The 13th Hirodai Student
Selected BooksGacha BookWest

West～An encounter with an unknown booklottery!～
HULS has begun a Gacha Book project!
It’s up to you what book you will encounter.
You can find it near the West Library Entrance.

The books selected by members of HULS during the Book Hunting
event and online selection have arrived at West Library!
Students also made POPs for the books, so come pick one up and take alook!
There are many other charming！
books to findSearch for the book
written on the paper
you draw!

『空想地図帳 : 架空のまちが描く世界のリアル』今和泉隆行（学芸出版社, 2023）

CLIP

This Month’s Antique Book
Gutenberg Bible 2 vols.

(Reproduction）

Bible Johanne Gutenbergs. Facsimile.

Rare Materials Room, Central Library

The beautiful copy
from Hiroshima
University’sholdings.

Along with gunpowder and the compass, the third most important invention of theRenaissance was…？ Well, the answer would be the art of the movable type!

Around the middle of the 15th century, a German man named Johanne Gutenberg(1397?-1468), with the idea of printing many copies of one book, created a beautifullycolored Latin copy of the bible, known as the 42-line bible. This is the world’s oldest
book printed by movable type, known as the Gutenberg Bible.
In the 15th century, 200 copies of this book were published. However, only 48 copies
have survived until this day, with one copy being held by Keio University in Japan.
In Hiroshima University’s holdings, you can find one of 895 limited
facsimiles (copies) that were issued in Munich in 1977, bearing the serial
number of 328.
You can browse this book in the Keio University Digital Collection here!→CALENDAR

January Library Calendars
Central Library

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Higashi Senda LibrarySun. Mon. Tue. Wed. Thu. Fri. Sat.

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