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     1. Brief history
     2. Organization
     3. Personnel
     4. Users
     5. Building
     6. Numbers of books and serials
     7. Main equipment
     8. Publications

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1. Brief history

When new national universities started in 1949 under the postwar educational system, the former four government normal schools ( previously, Tokyo prefectural normal schools whose oldest one was derived from the Shogaku Kyosoku Koshujo of 1873 ) in Tokyo were merged into one national institution for teacher education and upgraded to the university status. Thus, Tokyo Gakugei University was founded as one of the new national universities. At that time, the existing libraries of the former normal schools were also united into one University Library, with their respective libraries becoming the main ( on the Setagaya Campus ) and the branch libraries ( on the other campuses ) of the new university. A new building was constructed in Koganei in March, 1961, and by March, 1964, all the branch libraries had been brought together to this new center by the joint move of the whole University. The present Library building was completed in March, 1974.

2. Organization

Chief Director -------(University Library Committee)

Administrative Director

Notes: 1 The Chief Director is to be appointed from among the professors in the University.
Notes: 2 The University Library Committee is to be composed of nine teachers in the University and is to carry out deliberation on the important matters of the Library operation, responding to inquiries from, and under the chairmanship of, the Chief Director who himself is not a Committeeman.
* ILL is the abbreviation of "interlibrary loan. " 

3. Personnel

(1) Chief Director

The post of the Chief Director is now held by Prof. Fumitoshi Hosoe, a member of the Area Studies Department of the Education Faculty.

(2) Administrative Personnel
 
Administrative　Director 1 
Chief of Division  2 
Library Specialist  1 
Chief of Section 6 
Staff    8(7,2) 
Total  18(7,2) 

Note: The former and the latter figures in parentheses represent the numbers of part-time employees on duty in the daytime and at night respectively. 

4. Users

(1) University Students and Personnel

The main users, who can read not only any of the books in the Library but also some of them that they have borrowed from it, are the University students and personnel whose numbers are shown in the following tables.

a. University Students (as of May 1, 2003)
 
Undergraduates 5,017 
Graduate Students  969 
Others 469 
Total  6,455 

b. University Personnel (as of May 1, 2003)
 
President 1
Prof. and other Univ. Teachers 373 
Teachers at Attached Schools 350 
Admin. Officials  233 
Total  957 

(2) Other Users

Those other than the members of the University, who have obtained the permission of the Chief Director, especially other national university teachers, can read books in the Library.

5. Building

The reinforced-concrete Library building has three floors above and one under the ground, including the respective floor spaces mentioned below.
 
Space for the reading and reference service  3,099㎡ 
Space for stacks  1,048㎡ 
Space for the managing department  2,094㎡ 
Total space  6,241㎡ 

 

* Storage capacity: about 589,300 vols.

6. Numbers of books and serials

*kept in the library and in teachers' study rooms

(1) Total numbers ( as of March 31, 2003 )
 
Books  Serials 
Japanese  656,118 vols.  8,053 titles 
Foreign  271,056 vols.  3,370 titles 
Total  927,174 vols.  11,423 titles 

 

(2) Annual additions ( from April, 2002 to March, 2003 )
 
Books  11,161 vols. 
Serials  2,329 titles 

 

(3) Special Collections

(4) Special Collections for Educational Researchers Specially
Financed by the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture.

7. Main equipment

(1) Computer
(2) Videotape player, CD LD player and other audiovisual equipment
(3) Microfilm apparatus
(4) Terminals for informational retrieval
(5) CD-ROM server and CD-ROM player
(6) Book Detection System
(7) Facsimile
 

8. Publications

(1) Library News
(2) Guide to the Library use
(3) Reading advisory pamphlet of the Common Subjects
(4) Annual report
(5) Outline
 
 

2004.4.7 update

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