For Waseda users only
To borrow books, please bring books to circulation desk with student ID, Faculty and staff ID, or library card.
Borrowing periods and number of books can be borrowed differ by the user’s status at Waseda University Library.
Due dates of the books you are borrowing and status of books you have placed holds can be viewed from WINE.
Loan periods of the books you are borrowing can be renewed also from WINE.
[Menu] at the upper right of WINE → My Library
Please refer to “My Library” in WINE HELP.
If the book on loan is not placed ‘hold’ by other users, borrowing the book again is available at the circulation desk right after returning it.
Books borrowed from each library (Central, S. Takata, Toyama, Science and Engineering, Tokorozawa) and each students’ reading room can be checked out again at libraries and students’ reading rooms other than the library where the book is held. *
Faculty members may also check out books again at their school library.
*Note on libraries that accept return and borrow requests
– Undergraduate students cannot check out books again at the S. Takata Memorial Research Library.
– At the Science and Engineering Students’ Reading Room, only books in the Science and Engineering Students’ Reading Room can be checked out again.
Library materials must be returned to the circulation desk by the due date.
Books borrowed from each library (Central, S.Takata, Toyama, Science and Engineering, Tokorozawa) and each students’ reading room can be returned to libraries and students’ reading rooms other than the library where the book is held and at the locations listed below. *
Faculty members can also return books at their faculty library.
– Waseda University Senior High School Library (The senior high school faculties, staffs and students only.)
– Waseda University Honjo Senior High School Library
– Office of Graduate School of Information, Production and Systems
(Professors, researchers and graduate students those who have a base of academic activities at Kitakyushu Campus only. Feel free to contact the office for details.)
– Higashifushimi Campus office
(Professors, researchers and graduate students those who have a base of academic activities at Higashifushimi Campus only. Feel free to contact the office for details.)
*Note on the return circulation desk
– Undergraduate students cannot return books at the S. Takata Memorial Research Library.
– At the Science and Engineering Students’ Reading Room, only books in the Science and Engineering Students’ Reading Room can be returned.
*Note when returning books to a library other than the library where the books is held.
If the book is damaged, stained, or if there are notes written in it when you apply to return the book, you may be asked to return it at the owning library so that its staff will verify the condition.
*Please return the following materials to the library originally borrowed from.
– Material which is not checked out from barcode (through WINE system) such as books borrowed from Special Collections Room, Materials’ Room (School of Education) and Student Reading Room (Graduate School of Low).
– One-day loan books from Student Reading Room (School of Law)
– Reserved books at SILS library
– Books from the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
– Books from the Waseda International House of Literature
You can return books to the book-return posts of each library and students’ reading rooms except the Central Library after the library is closed.
The return will be processed on the date of the next opening day.
Please note that there are no book-return posts in the Central Library.
You can also return books by mail service.
You can return them by mail service with traceable options (You-pack etc.) for the safety reason. We recommend you to keep the receipt of it.
・You are responsible for the returning including its cost.
・When you pack them for the shipping, please put them in a plastic bag in order to prevent damage by water.
■Mailing address:
– In Japanese
〒169-8050 新宿区西早稲田1-6-1
早稲田大学図書館(中央図書館)
利用者支援課 行
電話: 03-5286-2195
※表面・品名に「返却図書在中」と記載してください。
※電話番号は郵送手続き上必要な情報として記載しております。
– In English
Dept. of Users Support
Building No.18, Center for Scholarly Information 2F, Waseda Campus
1-6-1 Nishiwaseda, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 169-8050 TEL. 03-5286-2195
* Please write “Return Book(s)” on the front side.
* The telephone number may be needed when you apply mail services.
*Please send books of libraries and students’ reading rooms other than the Central Library to the above address too. However, books of the International House of Literature and the Mathematics (School of Education) cannot be returned by mail.
*For books of the Theatre Museum, please refer to the website of the Theatre Museum (Japanese version only).
An e-mail about due date will be sent to your Waseda mail (for library card users and professors emeriti, preferred email address registered in the library system) 5 days before the due date.
When users lost / damaged books, please report to library desks immediately. Users are required to pay for compensations following the library rules.
When Waseda University libraries close temporarily due to official weather warnings, for example, and the due date falls on that day, please consult at circulation desk with the materials before returning them. We deal with it so that you receive no disadvantage.
When the due date falls on a day when the library is temporarily closed and another user has placed on hold/recalled the overdue materials, borrowing privileges will be suspended. You may not borrow new materials until the overdue materials are returned.
In case that a borrower misses the due date to return library materials, he/she receives penalties. When borrowing privilege is suspended at one library on campus, this is also subject to apply at other libraries in Waseda University.
If someone places a hold on the book that you are borrowing but you don’t return it by the due date, your borrowing privileges will be suspended. You will not be able to borrow new books as long as the overdue book remains unreturned. Once the overdue book is returned, your borrowing privileges will be resumed.
Loan period can be renewed from “My Library”([Menu] at the upper right of WINE → My Library). However, in case that a book is placed a hold by other users or user’s borrowing privileges have been suspended, loan period cannot be extended. Please return the book by the due date.
Items of | Libraries that can be designated as pickup locations |
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Central Library, S.Takata Memorial Research Library, and Students Reading Rooms at Waseda Campus | Sci. & Eng. Library and Tokorozawa Library Owning libraries (*1) |
Toyama Library | Sci. & Eng. Library and Tokorozawa Library Toyama library (*1) |
Sci. & Eng. Library, Sci. & Eng. Students Reading Room | Central Library, S.Takata Memorial Research Library (*2) , Toyama Library and Tokorozawa Library Owning libraries (*1) |
Tokorozawa Library | Central Library, S.Takata Memorial Research Library (*2) , Toyama Library and Sci. & Eng. Library Tokorozawa Library (*1) |
*1) Only items that are not currently available including other libraries’ holdings, such as items On Loan. *2) Only for Faculty and Graduate Students |
Number of books you may place hold | Undergraduates | Graduates | Faculty & staff |
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15 | 30 | 60 |
The numbers above are the total number of materials can be reserved from Central Library, each Campus Library (Takata, Toyama, Science and Engineering(and Student Reading Room) and Tokorozawa), Waseda Campus Student Reading Rooms (FPSE, Law, Education, Commerce & SILS, Social Sciences), Japanese Language Students’ Reading Room, Theater Museum Library.