Outline of Nagasaki University Library
History
May 1949 The new “Nagasaki University” was established under the National June 1998 Database of old photographs in Bakumatsu-Meiji Period was School Establishment Law. Nagasaki University Library was released. composed of Central Library and 7 branch libraries. October 1998 The libraries started borrowing services to the public. October 1950 Central Library relocated to Kozen-machi March 1999 Glover atlas database was released. April 1953 Two stacks of former Nagasaki Medical University Library, which The around-the-clock opening system was introduced in the shared was damaged by the atomic bomb, were renovated and used as library at Medical Library. School of Medicine Library. January 2002 Electronic journals were introduced on a full scale. March 1954 Central Library relocated to the campus of School of Medicine in Sakamoto-machi. April 2002 Library guidance was started in “Culture seminar” at the university. March 1956 Central Library relocated to Ohashi-machi April 2003 Old Photograph Reference Room was established. April 1963 School of Medicine Library relocated to the building of basic July 2003 Central Library started to open on Sundays and holidays. research in School of Medicine. October 1969 A bulletin “Library News” started to be issued. “Mutual cooperation agreement between the Nagasaki Academic Library Association and the Nagasaki Public Library Association” January 1971 New Central Library building was constructed. was concluded. October 2003 Economics Library started to open on Sundays February 1971 The libraries were organized and integrated. April 2004 National University Corporation Nagasaki University was February 1972 New Economics Library building was constructed. established. Medical Library started to open on Sundays and holidays. September 1976 Inspection operation at the Central Library was computerized. August 2004 A bulletin “Library News” was changed its name to December 1978 New School of Medicine Library building was constructed “Wakaran-no-Mado”. June 2005 Exhibition Room for Open Rare Materials was established at all April 1979 School of Medicine Library became a complex library on Sakamoto libraries. Campus and changed its name to Medical Library. February 2007 Nagasaki University’s Academic Output SITE (NAOSITE) was released April 2007 Complex building of Nagasaki University Library and Nagasaki Expansion of storerooms of Central Library was completed. August 1984 Learning Center of Open University of Japan was constructed (named as Central Library Annex) September 1984 Library operation computer was introduced. June 2007 Media Room and Library Lounge were established on the second March 1988 Networks of the library operation computer and Journals Information floor of Central Library Annex Center were connected. August 2008 Nagasaki University digital collection was released. May 1992 With the implementation of the two days off system, Central Library and Medical Library started to open on Saturdays. March 2009 The first floor of Central Library Annex was renovated to be a compact storeroom. April 1995 The libraries opened to the public July 2009 “Bauduin Photograph Collection” was designated as a registered tangible cultural property of Japan September 1995 OPAC services were started by using internal LAN. January 2013 Seismic retrofitting of Central Library was completed. April 1996 Economics Library started to open on Saturdays. April 2013 Central Library reopened. July 1996 University Library received the Japan Association of National University Libraries Award for its library activities (holding open February 2014 Expansion of Medical Library was completed. lectures). Medical Library reopened. April 1998 Research and Development Room was established. May 2014
Management structure of Nagasaki University Library
As of April 1, 2017
Director of Nagasaki University Library Management Conference Nagasaki University Library Committee
Director of Medical Director of Economics Library Library
Director of Journals
Information Department
Room Manager of Journals Information Research and
Management Section Old Photograph Reference Room Historical Material Development Room
Leader of Journals Information Committee Evaluation Management Team Collection Committee
Director Subcommittee Hideaki Nakata Subcommittee
Assistant Leader of Journals Committee Public Relations Information Management Team Director of Medical Katsuyuki Yui Library Academic Institution Repository Repository Institution Academic Academic Information Management Management Information Academic Staff of Journals Information Director of Management Library Committee Medical Atsuyuki Fukaura Committee Library Management Economics Management Team Economics Library
Director of Journals Shinichi Mitsumoto Information Department
Activities of Nagasaki University Library in FY 2016
Efforts for Work Study Assistant Implementation of Library Lovers’ Nagasaki 2016 Details of the efforts: Arrangement of materials returned to laboratories, arrangement of book stacks, supporting operation at the counter, Participated in the campaign for promoting the use of correction of the old photograph database, transfer of materials, national, public, and private university libraries in Nagasaki
exhibition of materials, etc. Term of the campaign: October 18 to November 14 Joint event: “Escape game: Get back the name of Commendation of the Best Reader Award Omagarizu” y Best 1 (180 books), Best 2 (153 books) Original event: Book hunting
Enhancement and promoting the use of books for students Cooperation with the archive practice (1) Enhancement of books for students (Books purchased in February 15 to February 16: In a class of School of Global FY 2016) Humanities and Social Sciences, librarians took care of Books requested by students: 902 search for books and journals, library guidance, and tour of rare material collections. Bools listed in syllabi: 548
Books recommended by faculties: 1,151 Release of the new database of old photographs and adding contents to the database Books selected by the Collection Committee: 26 x Released “Japanese Old Photograph Album: Potter Books recommended by the librarians: 270 Album” x Added “Photographs damaged by the fire, collected by Other books (for foreign students/reference Bauduin” to “Japanese Old Photograph Album: Bauduin books/continuation): 984 Collection” (2) Promoting the use of books for students (Exhibitions at Central Library) Holding exhibitions of old photographs 46th “Full support book for new students” April 1, 2016 to x “Walk in Nagasaki of Bakumatsu-Meiji Period!” October 19 to October May 31, 2016 31 47th “Feel familiar to politics” June 1, 2016 to July 18, 2016 Venue: Gallery on the Second Floor of Nagasaki Brick Hall 48th “Let’s read paperback and pocket books in summer!” No. of visitors: About 1,600 July 19, 2016 to October 2, 2016 x Exhibition at the culture festival of a home for the elderly: October 1 to October 31 49th “The plants” October 3, 2016 to November 30, 2016 Venue: Megumi-no-oka low-cost home for the elderly Tokiwa-so 50th “December 12 is the Kanji Day” December 1, 2016 to x Exhibition at the family event of a home for the elderly: November 2 January 31, 2017 to November 7 51th “Change yourself” February 1, 2017 to March 26, 2017 Venue: Megumi-no-oka Atomic Bomb Home Annex In addition to the exhibitions above, “Exhibition of books recommended by faculties”, “Exhibition of relay course-related materials”, and “Exhibition of the Events at the gallery pathfinder created by study counselor” were also held. x “Minazuki exhibition” by the university calligraphy club (Exhibitions at Economics Library) (June 6, 2016 to June 20, 2016) April “Let’s find a switch to get yourself motivated” x Panel exhibition of Professor Satoshi Omura (June 17, June “Let’s start extensive reading”, “Rights to vote from 2016) the age of 18”, “Power of words” x Photo exhibition “Revitalize Kumamoto!” (June 27, 2016 July “Recommended books for extensive reading”, “Cool to July 8, 2016) down with books” x Exhibition of the collection of Emeritus Professor Sep. “Introduction of books recommended by Mr. Okada, Okabayashi “Period of Modern Nagasaki -Transition of the Dean of Faculty of Economics, Vol. 3”, “Reading Nagasaki City, viewed from picture cards and map” books in long autumn night”, “Stories from space” (September 26, 2016 to October 27, 2016) Dec. “Relax with books” x Photo exhibition of overseas field work by School of Jan. “Books recommended by Mr. Fukaura, the Director of Global Humanities and Social Sciences (November 1, Economics Library” 2016 to November 14, 2016) x Winter exhibition “Flower and cat” by the university art Holding student discussions club (December 5, 2016 to December 16, 2016) x Photo exhibition of Nagasaki 100 km walking tour Central Library (January 26, No. of participants: 12) (December 17, 2016 to January 16, 2017) Medical Library (November 15, No. of participants: 6 x Photo exhibition “Past, present, and future of Omura Bay, from School of Health Sciences) Satoumi of Nagasaki” (February 15, 2017 to February Economics Library (December 21, No. of participants:5) 28, 2017)
Extension of opening hours on Saturday, Sunday, Cooperation with external exhibitions and holiday (Central and Medical) Changed the closing time on Saturday, Sunday, and x Special exhibition of the Donjon of Nagoya Castle holiday in regular season from 18:30 to 20:00 “Pictures and photographs of Nagoya Castle” (October 8, 2016 to November 23, 2016) Renewal of the library’s website Venue: Donjon of Nagoya Castle Changed the designs of the top page and the menu x Exhibition “Dawn of Japanese Photography: The page so as to be simply used from smartphone Anthology” (March 7, 2017 to May 7, 2017) Venue: Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
Facility overview
Central Library Total area: 6,281 m2, Total number of seats: 778
No. of seats: 301
Books stack
Reference Book Reading Room Reference Book Reading Room Journals stack
Open Stacks Books stack No. of seats: 336
Books stack Journals stack
Media Room Library Lounge Rare Material Room Journals stack Media Room Open Stack Reading Room
Terrace Terrace
Library Lounge
Books stack No. of seats: 116
Books stack Journals stack
Terrace Compact stack Office Journals stack
Learning Newspaper Commons Section Audiovisual Group Study Booth Room Gallery Entrance Group Study Room No. of seats: 25
Multipurpose Room Gallery
Medical Library Total area: 2,696 m2, Total number of seats: 309
No. of seats: 168
2nd Floor 2nd Floor Reading Room Open Stacks
Stack 2nd Floor Open Stacks
Rare Material Room (Exhibition room for materials related to modern medicine history)
No. of seats: Stack 141 Seminar Room
Group Study Computer Learning Commons Room Room 1st Floor Reading Room Office
Stack Entrance Learning Commons Group Study Room
Economics Library Total area: 1,758 m2, Total number of seats: 186
No. of seats: 145
Stack Rare Material Room (Exhibition room for 2nd Floor Muto Collection) Open Stacks Exhibition Room for 2nd Floor Muto Collection Reading Room Group Study Room
Stack
No. of seats: 41
Stack Group Study Room 1st Floor 1st Floor Open Reading Room Stacks Office
Compact Entrance Stack
1st Floor Reading Room
FY 2016 statistics
Number of books (as of April 1, 2017)
Journals (unit: types) Name of Books (unit: books) Electronic Electronic books journals library Japanese and Japanese Western Western books Total (unit: types) (unit: types) Chinese books Total language language Central Library
Medical Library
Economics Library Total
*The total number (type) of journals is the number of journals excluding those overlapped. Number of books accepted
Books (unit: books) Journals (unit: types) Name of library Purchased Donated Total Purchased Donated Total
Central Library
Medical Library
Economics Library
Total
*The total number (type) of journals is the number of journals excluding those overlapped. Status of use
No. of No. of documents photocopied No. of documents borrowed Name of No. of opening No. of visitors No. of books library borrowed references days Accept Request Accept Request
Central Library (Of them, those outside the (Of them, those outside university: 13,477) the university: 2,144)
Medical Library (Of them, those outside the (Of them, those outside university: 3,322) the university: 320)
Economics Library (Of them, those outside the (Of them, those outside university: 1,740) the university: 253)
Total (Of them, those outside the (Of them, those outside university: 18,539) the university: 2,717) Number of permissions for Guidance using rare materials Name of Culture seminar Library guidance Name of No. of library permissions library No. of times No. of No. of times No. of participants participants Central Library Central Library Medical Library Medical Library Economics Library Economics Library Total Total
Status of the use of Group Delivery library Study Room Name of No. of No. of bools No. of library times borrowed users No. of Name of No. of times library participants Custom-made type Central Library Central Library Regular type
Medical Library Medical Library
Economics Library Economics Library Custom-made type
Total Total
Database seminar Breakdown of NAOSITE contents (as of April 1, 2017)
No. of No. of Name of seminar No. of Type of materials Bulletin participants registrations International times academic journal Domestic academic journal SciFinder utilization seminar Bulletin Conference paper Presentation material Journal Citation Reports guidance International academic Thesis journal Summary of thesis Technical report
Domestic academic Report EndNote Basic utilization seminar journal Book Magazine Conference paper Educational SCOPUS seminar material Preprint Presentation material Patent Mendeley seminar Others
Rare material ProQuest utilization seminar Thesis
eol utilization seminar Summary of thesis Repository ranking Total Technical report Domestic World Report Date ranking ranking Number of accesses Book
to NAOSITE Magazine No. of downloads Educational material Total No. of downloads Preprint No. of visitors Patent Total No. of visitors Others
Rare material
Number of contracted titles of Total electronic journals Number of full text downloads Number of accesses to database Name of package No. of titles No. of full text downloads No. of Name of database accesses
Ichushi Web
Kikuzo II
Today’s Diagnosis and Treatment Web
Latest Nursing Index Web
Nishinippon Shimbun Database Papyrus
Nikkei Telecom
Main collection Collection of Japanese Old Photographs in Bakumatsu-Meiji Period Central Library This collection contains about 7,700 original photographs taken in various places in Japan between 1860 and 1899 by Hikoma Ueno, Felice Beato, and other photographers. “Bauduin Collection” obtained from Netherlands in November 2007 was designated as a registered tangible cultural property of Japan in July 2009, under the name of “Bauduin Photograph Collection”.
“Umegasaki Western-style “Megane Bridge” “Offerings for moon viewing” “Young Thomas Glover” houses and Dejima” Glover Atlas: Fishes of Southern and Western Japan This collection is comprised of 32 series containing 806 colored pictures of about 600 species of fish landed at fish markets in Nagasaki. Thomas Albert Glover (Japanese name: Tomisaburo Kuraba), the second son of Thomas Blake Glover and a British merchant in the Bakumatsu Period, had five local painters draw sketches of fishes between the late Meiji Period and the early Showa Period.
“Japanese bigeye” “Demon stinger” “Gold-ribbon grouper” “Fan lobster” German Education History Collection Japanese and Dutch Collection This collection contains educational books and documents, mainly In addition to about 1,800 books written in Dutch, this collection those of the first edition, published in the Kingdom of Prussia contains Japanese and English books on the relationship (Germany) between 1750 and 1870. The collection is comprised of between Japan and Netherlands, and documents (including two parts (First Part: A total of 221 documents including books of microfilms) related to Dutch trading house. With the dissolution famous educational thinkers and documents related to the of the Japan-Netherlands Academic Society in 2012, materials educational system at the time; Second Part: 91 practical collected by the society were donated. documents used in the field of education at the time). Materials Related to Modern Medicine History Medical Library The materials include “Paper anatomical model (Kunst lijk (human phantom))” used by Pompe van Meerdervoort, the father of Western medicine in Japan, at his anatomical lecture; “Koigekasoden (surgery textbook)” written by Chinzan Narabayashi, the first head of the Narabayashi Family and an officer in charge of interpretation for trade with Netherlands; the Japan’s oldest “Stethoscope” introduced by Otto G.J. Mohnike, the father of vaccination against cowpox; “Sekotsugen”, a wall scroll providing the osteopathic method; more than 100 handwritten lecture transcripts in the Meiji Period; and other materials related to medical history. In 2011, 577 materials collected by Hosaku Sato, a graduate of Nagasaki Medical University, were donated from his descendant (Hosaku Sato Collection).
“Stethoscope” “Kaitai Shinsho (anatomic book)” “Koigekasoden (surgery textbook)” “Kunst lijk (human phantom)” Muto Collection Economics Library This collection contains about 10,000 Japanese and Western books, journals, and booklets as well as about 200 documents collected and stored by Chozo Muto, a professor of former Nagasaki Higher Commercial School. The collection also contains a wide range of rare books and paintings related to Japan-Netherlands trade and Japan-UK trade, Nagasaki in the Bakumatsu Period, and economic classics, etc.
“A memorial picture taken when Ryunosuke “Wealth of Nations (first edition)” “Map of Nagasaki Dejima drawn by Keiga Kawahara” “Blue and white plate with VOC mark” Akutagawa and Kan Kikuchi visited Nagasaki”
Digital collection
Collections of Nagasaki University, such as old photographs, materials related to modern medicine history, and materials of Muto Collection, etc., are available online. http://www.lb.nagasaki-u.ac.jp/siryo-search/ecolle/
Database of Japanese Old Photographs in Bakumatsu-Meiji Period (released in June 1998) The database contains about 6,700 photographs from the “Collection of Japanese old photographs in Bakumatsu-Meiji Period”. Glover Atlas Database (released in June 1999) High-definition Image Database of Japanese Old Photographs in Bakumatsu-Meiji Period (released in May 2002) “High-quality Image Collection of Japanese Old Photographs in The database contains high-definition images of 201 photographs of Nagasaki and Bakumatsu-Meiji Period” 300 photographs of other prefectures across the country, selected from the “Collection of Japanese old photographs in Bakumatsu-Meiji Period”. Muto Collection (electronic exhibition) (released in September 2003) Modern Medicine History Digital Archives (released in October 2004) Catalogue of Early Japanese & Chinese Medical Books (released in November 2005) “Modern Medicine History Digital Images of the catalogue of early Japanese and Chinese medical books and full texts Archives” of rare materials owned by Medical Library are provided. Galapagos Islands Image Database (released in June 2007) This collection is comprised of about 1,300 photographs of Galapagos Islands taken by Shuzo Ito, Emeritus Professor of our university. Full Text Image Database of Translations of Western Books in the Dawn of Modern Japan (released in August 2008) The database contains images of full texts of 50 western books translated into Chinese and Japanese which were published between the Bakumatsu Period and the early Meiji Period and are owned by University Library. Japanese Old Photograph Album: Bauduin Collection (released in October 2008) Transcript of Bauduin’s Lectures (released in October 2008) This collection contains full texts of Bauduin-related documents owned by Nagasaki University. “Japanese Old Photograph Album: The Nagasaki Shipping List and Advertiser (released in Bauduin Collection” September 2012) This is a database for the first modern English language newspaper in Japan (from No. 3 to No. 28) published in a foreign settlement in Nagasaki from 1861. Japanese Old Photographs: van Mansveldt Album (released in March 2015) This is a photographic album of Japan that Dutch doctor C.G. van Mansveldt, who was the successor to A.F. Bauduin, collected while staying in Japan. Japanese Old Photographs: Potter Album (released in February 2017) “Japanese Old Photographs: This is a photographic album of Japan that British coal mining engineer F.A. Potter Potter Album” collected while staying in Japan.
Campus map
Bunkyo Campus (Central Library)
School of Global Humanities and Social Sciences
Faculty of School of School of Fisheries Pharmaceutical Engineering Sciences
Nakabe Hall Faculty of Environmental Main Gate Science Administration Bureau 1-14, Bunkyo-machi, Nagasaki-shi, Faculty of Nagasaki, 852-8521 Education TEL: 095-819-2193 FAX: 095-819-2196 Sakamoto Campus (Medical Library)
School of Health Sciences
Institute of Tropical Medicine Pompe Hall Nagasaki University Hospital School of Medicine Memorial Hall School of Dentistry Ryojun Hall
Main Gate 1-12-4, Sakamoto, Nagasaki-shi, Nagasaki, 852-8523 TEL: 095-819-7014 FAX: 095-819-7016 Katafuchi Campus (Economics Library)
Keirin Hall
Fuyo Hall
Research Faculty of Institute of Economics Southeast Asia
Main Gate 4-2-1, Katafuchi, Nagasaki-shi, Nagasaki, 850-8506 TEL: 095-820-6309 FAX: 095-820-6313
Outline of Nagasaki University Library 2017 Edited and issued by Nagasaki University Library Website: http://www.lb.nagasaki-u.ac.jp/ Issued on July 1, 2017 E-mail: [email protected]