Waseda University LibraryWaseda University

• Undergraduate students, graduate students, and non-degree students
• Faculty and staff
• Students from Waseda University Senior/Junior High School and affiliated high schools
• Library card holders
• Alumni: See  “Library information for alumni”
• Users from the universities under cooperative agreement with Waseda (Keio University, Doshisha University)
• Special auditing students and exchange students under cooperative agreement universities with Waseda
• Visitors with a letter of introduction issued by other institutions: See  “Guide for Visitors” (In Japanese Only)

※Science and Engineering Library is not open to the public. Please take the predetermined procedure in your institution or a public library.

Please check service days and hours on the website.

• Sundays, national holidays(excluding class days)
• Extra school closure
• Saturdays during summer and winter vacations
• Summer school closure
• Anniversary of the University Founding (October 21)(excluding class day)
• Winter school closure
• Others (Entrance examinations,Construction, Book Inventory period etc.)
• Any change will be announced by bulletin boards and websites.

To enter the library

• Users can enter the library by using User Card(Student ID, Faculty/Staff ID, Library Card, Waseda Card, etc.). The library is an automatic admission method by User Card. If you were forgotten your User Card, you cannot enter the library.
• If you were waiting reissuing Student ID, please show your certificate published by the faculty.
• Visitors need the letter of introduction of the library of your belonged university, etc.

To exit the library

• Please exit the gate. The exit gate is equipped with the BDS (Book Detection System).

Borrowing

To borrow books, please bring books to the counter with student ID, Faculty/staff ID, or library card. Borrowing service is available 30 minutes before the closing time.

(including CD-ROMs, etc)

• The number of books is the total number of books that can be borrowed at one time from all Waseda University Libraries managed under the common loan rules.
• Periodicals cannot be checked out.

Returning books

Please return the materials by the due date to the circulation desk when the library is open or to the return box when the library is closed.
Books deposited in the retuen box will be processed on the following business day.

• If a book is overdue for more than 4 days past the due date, the borrowing of the book will be suspended until the book is returned. For each day that a book is overdue from the due date, the borrowing of the book will be suspended for one day. When a book is suspended, it will not be available for borrowing at other libraries.
• The day after the due date, 4 days, 7 days, 14 days, 30 days, and 60 days after the due date, the library system will automatically send an email titled “Book Return Request” to your Waseda mail (library card users and emeritus professors have a priority email address registered with the library).

Overdue Penalties

Please show Borrowing Rules Page.

• Please respect the copyright law of Japan when making photocopies.
  For the purpose of your own research, a user can make a single copy less than half of a work.
  See material can be copied for details.
  Copy machines cannot be used to make copies of non-library materials.
• Insert cash or a copy card.
• Copy machines are available until 30 minutes before closing time.

How to get copy cards

• Copy cards can be purchased from the vending machine, but a receipt is not issued.
  （Waseda member only）

Copy fees

Please visit the Reference Desk

• When you are in trouble searching the materials
• When you cannot find certain shelf in the Science and Engineering library
• When you want to use the material of other libraries of Waseda University
• When you are searching for the materials which Waseda University does not hold.
• When you want to use non-Waseda University library

How to get the materials of other libraries in Waseda university

• You can order the materials in the list　below from other libraries to Science & Engineering Library. Copies of articles should be paid for. For details, please check Material transferring service between Waseda libraries Online request is available.

How to get the material from non-Waseda libraries

• You may request materials not held by Waseda University from other universities’ libraries by using ILL service. For details, please see How to Request for Interlibrary Loans

Purchase requests are accepted for books not owned by the Science & Engineering Library. Online requests are accepted.
We cannot accept all of the requests because of the budget limitation. Notification will be sent via e-mail within 10 days only if the book will be purchased. When the requested book become available, notification will be sent to you via e-mail and the book will be held at the check-out counter for 7 days.