• Alumni
  • Application for new issuance or replacement for lost a card
    • Apply by mail
  • Renewal Procedure
• Unemployed PhD holder

• Alumni who have the Alumni Library Pass can enter the General Library whenever it is open.
• They can also enter Komaba Library, Kashiwa Library, Medical Library, University Library for Agricultural and Life Sciences and Faculty of Letters Building 3 Library.
• Borrowing, inter-library loan, ECCS terminals are not available.
• Accompanying persons, including preschool children, are not permitted in the library. Caregivers are excluded.
• If you borrow books in order to write your doctoral thesis after leaving UTokyo at maturity, please consult at the General Library counter.
• Services listed below are not available;
  • Borrowing of materials or access to the stack.
  • Materials delivery services from other libraries or issuing letters of introduction to other libraries.
  • Use of UTokyo Wi-Fi (Wi-Fi of the University of Tokyo).
  • Use of ECCS Room terminals.
  • Access to the Library Plaza (Annex).

1.Browse

• You can browse Open-shelf Materials and Unbound journals.
• Please write down the call numbers and titles of materials request available a request form at Stack Counter.
  The service is available from 9:00 to 12:00 and from 13:00 to 17:00 on weekdays.
• Please request via OPAC in the library to use Automated Storage Materials.

　=>Automated Storage Materials

2.Photocopying

• You can copy under copyright law.
• Before copying, Stack materials should be checked by library staff to determine whether they can be copied using the photocopy machine.
  *Stack materials are not available on Weekends and Holidays.
• Photocopy machines are located on 1st floor (Two photocopiers for use with prepaid library photocopying cards / coin, and one photocopier for use with coin).
  • Procedures for photocopying: Fill out required form in copier room
  • Materials for which photocopying is prohibited : Rare books and other similar materials
• Cost per sheet copied: 10yen / color 50yen
• Photocopying hours: During opening hours

3.Reference

• The General Library will respond questions and inquiries about the University of Tokyo and Collection of the University of Tokyo.

 If you plan to graduate or complete your degree in March 2025, please check the news page.

• Those who graduated the faculties or finished graduate courses of the University of Tokyo.
• Following is not eligible : former research students, auditing students and dropped-out students.

• Place : Reception desk or Service Counter on the 1st floor
• Time : Weekdays 9:00-17:00

• Application Form to Pass to University of Tokyo Library System
  • You can find the form at the library counter or download the PDF file from here.
• Certificate of graduation or completion
  • Please bring the original certificate.
  • You can be issued it at the academic affairs office.
• Identification
  • Official identification with your name and address.

You can order by mail for new issuance or replacement for lost card.

• Address
  7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033 Japan
• Enclose a copy of the identification instead of the identification itself.
• Write down on the envelope "Enclosing application form to library pass"

If you lost a pass, contact us and apply for replacement via the Inquiry Form ASAP.

The validity period of the Library Pass is July 31 after three years. After the expiration date, please come to the library for renewal procedures.After the expiration date, you can renew any opening weekday between 9:00-17:00.

Renewals are accepted in person or via the web form. The followings are needed.

• Library Pass
• Application Form to Pass to University of Tokyo Library System
  Available on the 1st floor of the General Library. Or, you can download it from the following link.
  • Application Form to Pass to University of Tokyo Library System (PDF)/ Example(PDF)
• Identification documents
  • Official identification documents with your name and current address.
    [Examples]
    • Driver's license
    • Passport *Valid only if it has a "holder's column" with the current address filled in.

• We will issue the library card to Unemployed PhD holder who continues the research after coursework completed without degree in a doctoral course of the University of Tokyo.
  *The card is not available in other libraries.
• Services listed below are not available;
  • Use of Tokyo University libraries other than the General Library (including Komaba Library, Kashiwa Library, and faculty-specific libraries).
  • Borrowing of materials or access to the stack.
  • Materials delivery services from other libraries or issuing letters of introduction to other libraries.
  • Use of UTokyo Wi-Fi (Wi-Fi of the University of Tokyo).
  • Use of ECCS Room terminals.

• Those who completed coursework without degree in a doctoral course of the University of Tokyo within 3 years.

• Until the end of March of the year you applied. （Renewal is approved 3 years at the longest）

• Admission to the General Library, Admission to Stack Room1, Browsing and Photocopying and Borrowing of the General Library materials

• Borrowing

  	Vols.	Period	Renewal
  Open-shelf and Automated Storage Materials (Bound journals)	Total 10 vols. (3 vols.)	14 days (7days)	Up to 2 times (Up to 1 time)
  Stack materials *Japanese and Chinese classics are in-library use only.	3 vols.	14 days	Up to 2 times

• Please come to Service Counter on the 1st floor between 9a.m and 5 p.m. At that time following documents are required. 
  Documents (1) and (2) are distributed at Service Counter.
  (1)「総合図書館の利用について（依頼）」（Recommendation）
  (2)「東京大学附属図書館利用証交付申請書」
  (3)Official identification with your name and address 
• Reception hours: 9:00-17:00 on weekdays. *Excluding closed day.

• An official seal of dean and seal and name of Full-time faculty (Professor or Associate professor is in the University of Tokyo) are required for the recommendation. 
• If you are graduate student now, please apply after April. If you still have books from the UTokyo libraries, we cannot accept your application. 
• Reception for renewal starts March. Please submit the above documents (1) -(3) again. But the faculty recommends you will be needed to belong to the University of Tokyo after April.
• After the period, please return the library card to the General Library.

• Please contact us from the Inquiry form.