Students can use their student cards, and faculty can use their staff cards as library cards. Part-time Lecturers, Researchers, Professor Emeritus', and other staff who do not have a staff card will receive an IC card at their affiliated department, so they can use this as their library card. 

Please refer to this page. 

• The check out allowance is per library. For example: you may check out 10 books from Central Library, and another 10 books from West Library if you are an undergraduate.
• The allowance for students that do not fall within the Undergraduate or Graduate Student category is decided depending on status.
• There are also materials such as some reference books, newspapers, newly arrived journals, and valuable materials which are unavailable for checkout.
• For students there are special long-term lending periods during summer and spring breaks, during which the lending periods are longer than usual. Details will be published on the library website when they become available. 

You can renew a book up to 2 times. Please find instructions for renewal below. You cannot renew overdue items, items that have been reserved by someone else, or audiovisual materials. 

• On the library website, renew through the  "Your Library Record" page.
• Bring the book to the library and renew them at the self-checkout machine or counter. 

If you would like to be the next person to use a material checked out by someone else, or a book is located at another campus' library, you can reserve and/ or order materials through OPAC (library search system) on the "Bibliography Details" page. 

A more detailed explanation is available below. 

Notice: in the following cases, you cannot reserve or order materials.  

• If you have already reserved or ordered the book, or if you have it checked out already.
• If the materials are already checked out, or available at the library that you requested for pickup. Please go to check out the materials yourself.
• Reservation is unavailable（Items that cannot be checked out）　Items that are for In-Library use only.
• Delivery is unavailable（Available for checkout only at the holding campus）Please go to the holding location and check it out by yourself.
• If a material is being checked out by a research lab, or is held on another campus, please submit an "InterLibrary Copy Request" or "InterLibrary Loan Request". If the material is located on your own campus, please go to use it in person. 

Noise Level

0 ：No talking/ noise
1 ：Quiet conversation OK
2 ：Regular volume conversation OK

• Ordering materials from other universities' libraries(Books, copies of journal articles etc.)  
• Borrowing Materials from Public Librarie
• The National Diet Library Digitized Contents Transmission Service.
• Visiting other university libraries
• Consult with a Librarian
• Book purchase requests
• Presentations and displays of research and activity results.