Outside Users

Service Guide: General Library (Outside Users)

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While the main purpose of our library is to support the faculty's educational and research activities, the library is open to outside users who wish to use it in the pursuit of academic studies and research or lifelong learning. However, use of the library by outside users is limited to those whose purposes are using the library materials. (Using only the seats of the library is not allowed.)

Please note that priority is given to the faculty's educational and research activities.

This page is a guide to the General Library. Conditions of using the special libraries vary among the libraries. Please ask them for further details.

When You Visit the Library

If you have your library card issued by the Central Library of Hokkaido University, you are free to enter the library. If you don't have a library card, please present some personal identification at the counter. For how to obtain your own library card, please see "Using the Libraries: For Visitors　(Central Library/North Library)".

Library Hours

Monday - Friday	9:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Monday - Friday (during the vacation)	9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Saturday, Sunday, national holidays, year end and new year holidays	Closed

Reading, Borrowing, Returning

You are free to read the library materials.
If you wish to borrow materials, please present them at the counter along with your library card. (If the library card you have is for reading use only, you cannot borrow materials.)
Reference materials, current issues of periodicals, dissertations, etc., are not available for loan.

Materials	Limits	Loan Periods
Books	2 volumes	15 days (including the checkout date)
Periodicals	Not available for loan

When the library is open, materials must be returned to the counter. When the library is closed, you may return materials to the Book Return outside the library entrance. When you have an overdue material, you are not allowed to borrow another one.

Photocopy Service

You can copy the library materials within the limits of the Japanese copyright law at your own expense. However, there is no copy machine for this use in the library. Please borrow materials and use a copy machine located outside the library. (ex. in a Hokkaido University Coop store)

Contact Us

B2, 1st floor, Fac. of Eng. Bldg. [MAP]

TEL: 011-706-6160 （ex. 6136, 6160）
FAX: 011-706-7893
E-mail: tosho@eng.hokudai.ac.jp

Faculty of Engineering Library
Hokkaido University
Kita 13, Nishi 8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, 060-8628