Library Guide
Aizu Region and Community
一般・地域
Building
- The building of the affiliated library
- Reinforced concrete, 2nd floor high and 1st floor below
- Square in total
- 2,446.45
- The capacity
- About 175,00 books.
- A total of seats
- 181 seats
First Floor
- Main Counter
- You can apply at this counter for circulation of library items, copy and reference services.
- Non-Japanese Book Stacks
- Foreign books are placed in the Library of Congress Classification (LC) method. Also, one terminal is available for material collection searches.
- [Book series]
Books published in the series are placed on the shelves by publisher (alphabetical order) along the walls. - [Reference books]
Reference books are stacked on the second and third shelves from the front.
- [Book series]
- Newly-arrived Books Corner
- Newly-arrived books are stacked on the front shelves.
- Books in Syllabuses Corner
- Reference books introduced in course syllabuses are stacked.
- Extensive Reading Books Corner
- English books for extensive reading are stacked.They are assigned books, so people outside the university can not borrow them.
- Audio-visual Materials Corner
- Audio-visual Materials are stacked on the shelves.
- TOEIC Corner
- TOEIC books designated by SGU are shelved.Only students and faculty members of this university can check out those materials.
- Emploayment / Learning Support Corner
- Resources to help in Employment / Learning a Qualifying Examination has been shelved.
- Kunii Collection Corner
- About three hundred items donated by Dr. Kunii, the founding president, are available.
- Relaxation Space
- A vending machine selling bottled water is available.Drinking is allowed in this space. Please refrain from eating anything. Be sure to put your drinks in your bag when you leave this Space for Relaxation.
- Browsing Corner
- The Browsing Corner contains new issues of both Japanese and Foreign magazines and journals as well as 10 different Japanese and Foreign newspapers.
- Periodicals Corner
- Newly-arrived Japanese magazines and non-Japanese magazines are placed in the Japanese alphabetical order and in the English alphabetical order respectively.
Bulletins and technical reports of the University of Aizu and other universities are available.
- AV Corner
- You can watch audio-visual materials by yourself.
- AV Room
- This room is available for watching audio-visual materials and for study/research in a small group
Please make enquiries at the counter when you wish to use of the AV Corner or AV Room.
Second Floor
- Japanese Book Stacks
- Japanese books placed according to Nippon Decimal Classification (NDC). Also, one computer terminal is available for material collection searches.
- [Book series]
Book published in the series are placed om by subject on the shelves along the walls. - [Reference books]
Reference books are stacked on the front shelves.
- [Book series]
- Exhibition Corner
- Much-talked-about books are exhibited.
- Donated Materials Room
- In addition to the Kunii collection of about 1,400 volumes, there are books, most of them are donated materials.
- Reading Area
- 100 seats for reading are available. On-campus users can use your own laptops. (2F only)
- Private Study Booths
- You can use your own laptops in those booths for individual study and research. 3 of 6 booths are equipped with a terminal unit.
- Group Reading Room
- The room, equipped with a terminal unit, a large display, and a whiteboard, is available for study/research in a small group.
- The Corner only for Personal Computers
- 8 PCs are available in this corner. Also, you can bring in your own laptop.
- If you need library materials placed in the Donated Materials Room, please contact library staff.
- Private Study Booths, the Group Reading Room, and The Corner only for a PC are not available for people out side the university.
- Use of PC in the Library is allowed only for UoA students, faculty and administrative staff members.Users who want to use PC can use Reading Area on the 2 nd floor, or The Corner only for Personal Computers.
Basement
There are closed stacks in the Library basement. The following library materials are stored in the stacks.
- Books
- Back numbers of journals (please use after checking which years are available).
- The University of Aizu publications
- Newspapers
- Audio-Visual Materials
* Please note that outside users are not permitted access to clased stacks in the basement. Outside users who need library materials placed in these stacks, please contact library staff.