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| (1)Reference Service | ||||||||||||
| The staff at the Reference Service Desk will assist you in : locating materials, using reference materials, and retrieving information. | ||||||||||||
| (2)Copy Service | ||||||||||||
In the library, users are allowed to take photographs or make photocopies
themselves. Copies from materials held by the library should be made solely
for educational or research purposes.
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| (3)Library Cooperation for Activity | ||||||||||||
| ��Interlibrary Loan Materials not held by the library can be borrowed from other libraries for students and faculty members, except for journals. If you want to borrow books, you will be charged for only postage and if you want to have photocopies sent from another library, you will be charged for copying expenses in addition to postage. Please inquire at the Reference Servise Desk about application. ��How to use other university libraries. If you would like use other university libraies, please apply to the Circulation Desk. Between national university libraries, common library admission is available for the faculties and undergraduates of the university and its ticket is effective for a academic year. | ||||||||||||
| (4)Library Homepage (address: http://www.lib.u-ryukyu.ac.jp/) | ||||||||||||
| You can use the library homepage through the internet, its details are
as follows: ��Information ��Guide for library use ��OPAC, database retrival(CD-ROM searching system) ��Introduction for Okinawan local materials ��Introduction for exhibition ��Library bulletin etc. In the future, we will provide more information about Okinawan local materials which are well used inside and outside the university. Furthermore, a reading guide for books with an introduction from faculties of our university is offered to raise reading interest for freshmen and make good use of library materials. | ||||||||||||
| � (5)Information Retrieval (IR) service | ||||||||||||
We provide two different types of Information Retrieval System. ��Online Information Retrieval System. ��CD-ROM Searching Service
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| � (6)Library Workshop | ||||||||||||
| � Library Workshop We are giving a training course in the form of a Library Workshop program in the library at a fixed time. Please take a course and learn how to use database and library. Opening schedule of the Library Workshop is shown on the library notice board and library homepage as occasion demands. | ||||||||||||
| � (7)Library volunteers | ||||||||||||
| We have been accepting library volunteers as a way of further opening
dialogue between library staff and customers, in order to best serve continuing
education. This is a new method of opening libraries in Japan. The services
of volunteers may render to you are as follows: ��Book lending. ��Help for foreign students for use of materials. ��Help for the physically handicapped for use materials. ��Arrangemet of materials, including Okinawan Local Materials and International Periodicals. | ||||||||||||
| (8)Information Display | ||||||||||||
| On the entrance hall, we furnish the above display for the purpose of
explaining of our library materials and facilities. In front of entrance, we also furnish another display for explaining monthly open hours and various library events. |