The University of Tokyo Library Charter
The University of Tokyo (hereinafter referred to as "this university") has established University of Tokyo Library System (hereinafter referred to as "UTokyo Library System") as an indispensable university-wide organization for learning, education, and research, and making it a center for collecting, preserving, and organizing the intellectual heritage of humanity, and the hub for disseminating newly created academic knowledge to the world.
In order to fulfill this duty, UTokyo Library System plays a role as an academic information infrastructure that supports learning, education and research activities at this university, and as one of the centers for the collection, preservation and dissemination of academic knowledge in Japan, contributes to the enhancement of the national academic research infrastructure, and also acts as a center for international collaboration and cooperation, serving the world's academic community by conducting academic information exchanges with academic institutions around the world.
The Commitment of University of Tokyo Library System
- UTokyo Library System has a combination of learning support functions, research support functions, and preservation functions. General Library, Komaba Library, and Kashiwa Library provide all students of this university a place for studying, acquisition of comprehensive education, and development their intellectual character, and thus play a central role in providing learning support on each campus. Departmental libraries primarily support researches at this university, and also provide learning support functions according to the characteristics of each department.
- UTokyo Library System will collect, preserve, and organize various academic information necessary for the development of learning, education, and research at this University, and makes it available for the users of both inside and outside the University as widely as possible depending on the nature of the materials, while responsibly passing on the valuable intellectual heritage of humanity that it holds to future generations.
- UTokyo Library System will provide various types of academic information necessary for learning and acquiring education for all students throughout this university, and will maintain facilities, equipment, staffs and information to enable effective use of such information.
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UTokyo Library System will make ceaseless efforts for improving its professional capabilities and the sophistication of its information systems so that all members of this university can share and effectively utilize the growing amount of academic information from around the world.
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UTokyo Library System will disseminate various types of accumulated academic information and the expertise to effectively utilize it in an appropriate form both domestically and internationally.
Established in March 2006
This English translation is a provisional version.