History
History
Sapporo Agricultural College
| Aug. 1876 | Sapporo Agricultural College was established. Book stack room was opened in the auditorium. |
| Dec. 1876 | Reading room was opened in the auditorium. Book storage was newly built. |
| Nov. 1890 | Extension to book storage. Reading room and office were built. |
| Nov. 1891 | Dr. INAZO NITOBE assumed the post of first director. |
| Feb. 1900 | Starting to make card catalog by Dewey decimal classification. |
| Jun. 1903 | Library was newly built in present campus. |
Tohoku Imperial University
| Jun. 1907 | Sapporo Agricultural College Library was renamed Agricultural College Library of Tohoku Imperial University. |
| Oct. 1914 | Opening hours extended to the evening. |
Hokkaido Imperial University
| Mar. 1918 | Agricultural College Library of Tohoku Imperial University was renamed Hokkaido Imperial University Library. |
| Sep. 1925 | Reading room (Journals) and office were newly built. |
| Oct. 1929 | Book binding room and press room were newly built. |
| Nov. 1929 | Reading room (Newspapers) was newly built. |
| Oct. 1937 | Northern Culture Research Division was established. |
| Nov. 1937 | Document which Hokkaido Prefectural Government collected was deposited. (Manuscript, Diagram, Photograph) |
| Oct. 1947 | Hokkaido Imperial University Library was renamed Hokkaido University Library. |
| Nov. 1963 | Branch library was established in the Department of general education. |
| Jun. 1965 | New library was built. |
| Jan. 1967 | Hokkaido University Library Bulletin "Yu-in" was first issued. |
| Jun. 1967 | Northern Culture Research Division was closed and Northern Studies Collection Room was established. |
| Oct. 1969 | Branch of General education was newly built. |
| Sep. 1970 | Opening hours extended to the evening. (Branch of General education) |
| Jan. 1971 | Reference Room of Hokkaido University History was opened. (Central library) |
| Mar. 1982 | European Communities Document Center (ECD) was opened. (Central library) |
| 1983 | Foreign official gazette and Congressional document zone was opened. (Central library) |
| Mar. 1986 | Library online computer system was introduced and online search service was begun. Connected to Catalog database of the National Center for Science Information Systems (NACSIS). |
| Sep. 1990 | Number of inputs to Hokkaido University Library Database reached to 1,000,000. |
| Apr. 1992 | Interlibrary loan (ILL) service by NACSIS was started. |
| May. 1993 | Library opening hours extended on Saturday. |
| Dec. 1993 | Book Detection System (BDS) was introduced. (Branch of General education) |
| Apr. 1995 | Branch of General education was renamed North branch. |
| Jul. 1995 | International Organization Collections Room was opened. (Central library) |
| Sep. 1995 | Hokkaido University Library Website was launched. |
| Oct. 1996 | Northern Studies Collection Databese was opened. |
| Mar. 1997 | BDS was introduced. (Central library) |
| Apr. 1997 | Library opening hours extended on Sunday. (Central library) |
| Oct. 1998 | Library opening hours extended on Sunday. (North branch) Preliminary version of Hokkaido University Library Bulletin "Yu-in Letter" was first issued. |
| Mar. 1999 | Automatic entry and exit machine was introduced. Automatic rental machine was introduced. (North branch) |
| Jun. 1999 | Online service was started (Purchase request, interlibrary loan and photocopy request). |
| Mar. 2000 | Automatic rental machine was introduced. (Central library) |
| Apr. 2000 | Multimedia Room was opened. (North branch) |
| Feb. 2001 | Start a mobile version of user guide on the web. |
| Mar. 2001 | Precious Document Room was opened. (Central library) |
| Apr. 2001 | "Introduction to information retrieval"(User support service) was started. |
| Apr. 2002 | The vice director post was established. Library opening hours extended on Public holidays. |
| Nov. 2002 | Lending service for outside user was started. |
National University Corporation Hokkaido University
| Apr. 2004 | High-definition electronic imaging of Northern Studies Collection started to display on the web. |
| Dec. 2004 | Extended Saturday,Sunday and Public holiday library opening hours. (2hours) |
| Mar. 2005 | Memorandum on business tie-up was exchanged with Peking University Library. |
| Mar. 2006 | Refurbishment of reading room in North branch. (1-3 Floors) |
| Apr. 2006 | Hokkaido University Collection of Scholarly and Academic Papers (HUSCAP) was launched. |
| Nov. 2007 | Seismic repair work at North branch was done. |
| Aug. 2009 | North branch was renamed North library. |
| Jul. 2011 | South wing of Central Library with automated storage and retrieval system was opened. |
| Apr. 2015 | West Building of North Library was opened. |
| Jun. 2019 | Hokkaido University adopted the new open access policy. |