LIBRARIES
The Library of Shiga University was opened in 1949 – the foundation year of the university. At present, the library consists of the Main Library on the Hikone Campus and the Branch Library of the Faculty of Education on the Otsu Campus. The total number of the books in their custody is 646,108. The libraries collect general and introductory materials for undergraduate students, and research materials related to the specialized fields of the academic staff and graduate students.
Those materials consist of books, periodicals, microfilms, audio-visual materials and on-line digitized sources. Among them are numbers of valuable and rare volumes. For example, the first edition of Болъшая Советская Знциклопедия (great soviet encyclopedia) in 66 volumes (the Main Library), Saigoku Risshi Hen (the 1871 Japanese version of Samuel Smiles' Self-Help translated by Masanao Nakamura) (the Branch Library).
Both libraries are open to the university’s faculty members, administrative staff, and students. Non-members of the university can also use the libraries, when registered.
The libraries’ holdings can be searched through the on-campus computer network.
LIBRARY HOLDINGS
( as of April 1, 2016)
Books
| Japanese & Chinese Titles | Titles in Western Languages | Totals | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Main Library | 286,802 | 98,051 | 384,853 |
| Branch Library | 220,821 | 40,434 | 261,255 |
| Grand Totals | 507,623 | 138,485 | 646,108 |
Periodicals
| Totals | |
|---|---|
| Main Library | 9,997 |
| Branch Library | 7,130 |
Online Databases and Electric Journals
| All Campus | CiNii |
|---|---|
| KikuzoⅡ Visual(Asahi Shimbun online database) | |
| Yomidasu Rekishi-kan (Yomiuri Shimbun online database) | |
| D1-Law.com:Current Legal Information | |
| Westlaw Japan | |
| Nikkei BP Kiji Kensaku Service | |
| Maruzen eBook Library | |
| Web of Science | |
| JapanKnowledge Lib | |
| Cambridge University Press Journals | |
| Oxford University Press Online | |
| Springer Link Journals | |
| Wiley online Library | |
| EBSCOhost: Business Source Elite & EconLit | |
| JSTOR (Arts & Sciences Collection I, Ⅱ, Business collection, Mathematics & Statistics Collection) | |
| Oxford Scholarship Online eBooks (Business / Management, Economics & Finance) | |
| Westlaw Next | |
| Springer Link eBooks (Business & Economics, Humanities Social Sciences and Law, Behavioral Science) | |
| House of Commons Parliamentary Papers | |
| The Making of the Modern World (MOMW-I: The Goldsmith’-Kress Library of Economic Literature 1450-1850, MOMW-Ⅱ: PartⅡ 1851-1914) |
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| EBSCOhost eBook Collection | |
| Hikone Campus | Nikkei Telecom 21 |
| Nikkei NEEDS Financial QUEST | |
| NBER Working Papers Online | |
| Science Direct (SD): Complete collection & Subject collection (Economics) | |
| Science Direct eBooks (Finance, Handbooks in Economics Series) | |
| Nikkei NEEDS CD-ROM |
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
Main Library
| Köln University Seminars in Commercial Science Series | 204 items |
|---|---|
| Болъшая Советская Знциклопедия （Great Soviet Encyclopedia） First Edition, 1926-1948 |
65 volumes & supplement |
| Schmollers Jahrbuch für Gesetsgebung, Verwaltung und Volkswirtschaft, 1 (1877)-107 (1987) |
107 volumes |
| Publications of The National Industrial Conference Board (USA) | 19 items (735 volumes) |
Branch Library
| Hikone-han Kodokan Kyuzosho (The books formerly kept by the school of Lord Ii of Hikone) | Chinese classics 580 titles (16,000 volumes) Japanese books 870 titles (9,000 volumes) |
|---|---|
| Collection of Japanese school textbooks (Meiji-Showa) | 8,500 volumes |
| American Culture Series 1493-1875 | (5,586 titles on 556 reels of 35mm microfilm) |
| The Gerritsen Collection of Women's History,1543-1945 | (4,736 titles on 17,556 microfiches and 244 reels of 35mm microfilm) |
