(Revised on March 5, 2024)
Please use your Waseda Card or Alumni Association Card to enter the library through the entrance gate at the library.
If you do not have either card (including those who have forgotten to bring one), please follow the procedures below and be sure to bring your ID (*) with you as we will check your Alumni status.
*One of the following: My number card, driver’s license, passport, resident card, or special permanent resident card. If you do not have either of these, a health insurance card is acceptable.
1) Central, Toyama, Science & Engineering, and Tokorozawa libraries
Please come directly to each library and ask the staff at the entrance.
2) Students’ Reading Room (School of Education), Ting Hsin International Group Commemorative Library (School of Commerce & SILS Students’ Reading Room), Students’ Reading Room (School of Social Sciences), Japanese Language Students’ Reading Room
Please come to the Central Library first. Then, visit each library/room with a letter issued by the library staff.
3) Science and Engineering Student Reading Room
Please come to the Science and Engineering Library (Building #51) first. After completing the procedures, please visit the Science and Engineering Student Reading Room.
4) Other libraries
Please visit the Central, Toyama, Science and Engineering, and Tokorozawa libraries. A letter of introduction will be issued for you. To Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum Library and Earth Sciences (School of Education), you can visit directly.
Alumni can use the Central Library, Toyama Library, Science and Engineering Library, Tokorozawa Library and some other libraries. When using other libraries, there are cases where a letter of introduction may be required from one of above libraries . Please check details at Libraries & Reading Rooms.
Browsing / copying of library materials and viewing of audiovisual materials in AV Room
For using e-resources (database, e-journals, e-books) subscribed to by Waseda University, please visit here.
For using Special Collections Room, please visit here.
*Borrowing library materials is not permitted.
*Internet service; Waseda’s Wi-Fi including Waseda’s PC (except WINE PC), is not open for Almni.