Here, we explain the method of searching books and magazines using
personal computers and the rule of books distribution.
You can search the collection of books of all of the LAICs using personal computers for search.
* How to use personal computers for search
You can search the collection of books of all of the LAICs by the established personal computer system
for search. And you can search in our web site too.
1.From the top page, please click "OPAC" in "Library material search" section.
2.Please input necessary search conditions and click the search button.
# You can choose the Category "Book", "Journal" and "Journal volume".
The audio-visual materials ("Videotape" and "DVD" etc.)
are included in "Book".
# You can choose the LAIC you want to utilize.
3.After lists of the search result are indicated, please click
the title of the data which you want to find. Next, the detailed
information is indicated.
# Please note that Japanese books are indicated in Japanese.
4.Bibliography and Holdings are written in the detailed information. Please
check Bibliography and look at Holdings.
# Sorry, "Location" of Holdings is indicated only in Japanese.
If you are in the LAIC, please ask to the staff.
(An example)
Bibliography
* Title
The Physics of ionized gases : invited lectures and progress reports of SPIG-78, Dubrovnik, Aug. 28-Sept. 2, 1978
* Authors
edited by R.K. Janev
* Publication items
Beograd : Institute of Physics, 1978
* Physical description
xi, 771 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
* Notes
SPIG-78
* Author information
Janev, R. K. (Ratko K.), 1939- ; Summer School and Symposium on the Physics of Ionized Gases
* NCID
BA13767666
Holdings
Location
Call mark
Material ID
Status (Due date)
1
姫路工学書庫
427.5|| ||0075
110095488
5. Please write the "Call mark", which will help you search the books
you want to find in the Reading room or the Stack room.
# Also the magazine is similar.
* Rule of books distribution
1.Meaning of "Call mark"
If you know the meaning of "Call mark", you can understand simply
where a book is arranged.
For example, "Call mark" of a book is "427.5|| ||0075".
3 pieces of information are written here, and they are divided by the mark of "||".
In other words, "427.5|| ||0075" is divided into "427.5"
, "blank" and "0075".
2.Label of back cover of books
If you look at a back cover of a book, there is a label which divides into 3 steps.
This label is "Call mark".
For example, "427.5|| ||0075" is designated on a label
as follows;
427.5
━━━━
━━━━ 0075
The upper step is "427.5", the lower step is "0075",
and the middle step is blank.
3.Viewpoint of a label
Numbers written on a lable means as follows:
Class letter
━━━━━━━
Volume number
━━━━━━━
Book number
Upper 3 numbers (or to 2 column below decimal points) are "Class letter".
And it is given on the basis of NDC (Nippon Decimal Classification) at
each library.
Because books are arranged in shelves according to this classification, please go to the shelf which corresponds to the classification number (in this case, the shelf where "427" is placed) .
Lower 4 numbers are "Book number". The number is given to the
books of the same "Class letter".
Books of the same "Class letter" are
placed in order of this "Book number" in the shelf.
The middle step is "Volume number". If a book was published with some series, the number in the series is written here.
To search books quickly, we must arrange books
into order.
Therefore, please be sure to bring back the books which you finish reading to the original
position.
If you forget an original position, no problem. If you know the meaning of
the label, you can simply find where the book was.
* Rule of magazines distribution
1.Location of magazines at the LAIC Himeji Shosha
At the LAIC Himeji Shosha, when you search magazines, the location
is "main building stack room 2".
In other words, we keep magazines in the upper floor of the Stack room. There are back numbers of scientific journals which were bound.
The new arrival magazines are put in the Magazine corner. But, those are general magazines. At the LAIC Himeji Shosha,
up-to-date journals of special fields are not kept.
2.Up-to-date journals of special fields
Unbound special magazines are kept in the data rooms of each subject
and the like.
Because full-time teachers purchase these journals for research, you can't
utilize them until they are bound and kept at the LAIC Himeji Shosha.