How the Journals are ordered within the Library

Location

Location Displayed on OPAC Grouping Location Floor
Komaba.Lib.Journals New Arrival Magazines Lounge 1F
Journals Journals 1F
Back Number Compact Shelving B2F
Komaba.Lib.Stor. Back Number Storage Stack*  

*The library staff would take care of getting the book from the shelves and returning it.
Using Materials in the Storage Stack Room

The Journals are grouped and ordered as below;

  1. Japanese Journals
  2. Chinese Journals
  3. Korean Journals
  4. European Journals
  5. Cyrillic Journals
  6. Bulletin of College of Arts and Sciences and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
  • For each group, the titles are placed in alphabetic order
  • In order to do so, the Chinese and Korean titles are converted to Japanese letters and the Cyrillic titles are converted to alphabet. 
  • Journals with titles that start with words that show the publication frequency, such as “kikan” (quarterly)/ and “gekkan”are ordered according to the word that follows those words .