5 Checking out materials and reading in the NAIST Library
| Checking out and returning library materials |
| (Borrowing materials) |
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Internal users can check out up to ten books from the library for two weeks from the Library except reference books and journals which are not available to check out.
You can check books out using the self-checkout machine. To borrow DVDs and CD-ROMs, ask a staff at the service desk. The visitors from Nara Women's University and Nara University of Education can make user card and borrow the books, need to procedure at the service desk. (details here) |
| (Returning books) |
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After returning books by using the self check-out machine. please put the books on the return cart, and not directly back to the shelves. If you fail to return a book by the due date, a reminder will be automatically sent to you by e-mail. If the book on loan remains overdue for three days or more, the borrower will be banned from checking out any additional books from the NAIST Library until it is returned. |
 How to use "book circuration machine" |
| (Reservation) |
| If the book you need is on loan, you can reserve it through the Library Portal. You will be given the priority to loan the book immediately after it is returned. |
| (Renew) |
| You can extend the loan period twice through the Library Portal if it is before the deadline and not reserved. |
| Using materials in the library |
| You can freely use the materials available in the reading area on the second floor of the NAIST Library. Books are arranged on the shelves according to the Nippon Decimal Classification and NAIST information classification table. Foreign journals are arranged in alphabetical order of the titles and Japanese journals in order of the Japanese syllabary. |
| ● Foreign journals |
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Arranged in alphabetical order, word-by-word, not letter-by-letter. Example: Plant biotechnology → Plant science → Planta Note the position of "the": Example: Journal of applied physics → Journal of bacteriology → Journal of the American Chemical Society |
| ● Japanese journals |
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Arranged in order of the Japanese syllabary. Alphabetical titles precede Japanese titles. Example: Newton→ UNIX user → 育種学雑誌 |