The "My OPAC" service will be temporarily suspended for campus blackout at Yotsuya Campus during the following period : 2022/08/27 6 p.m. to 2022/08/28 9 p.m.

We thank you for your understanding and cooperation in advance.

Requests received until Wednesday, August 3 will be accepted as usual.
Requests received after that date will be handled on or after Friday, August 19.

We will suspend ILL service during the following periods due to the summer vacation.
1.  Request loan of materials: July 21st- August 18th  
2.  Request copy of materials: August 10th - August 18th (**)
**Request received after 12:00p.m. on August 4th will be proceeded after August 19th

We appreciate your understanding and cooperation.

 〇 Partial restriction on facility use

The reading areas on B1F and B2F and Learning Commons are not available from August 1(Mon.) to August 3(Wed.). Only browsing is available, so please use the reading areas on another floor.

Depending on the time of day, the group study room may not be available during Open Campus. Please check MyOPAC for non-reservable hours.

〇 Closing of Reference counter

Reference counter is closed from August 2(Tue.) to August 3(Wed.).

(1) Undergraduate students ( Auditors, Sophia University Junior College division students and Course of Midwifery students are included too. )

 / Participants of Grief Care Professional Program and Friends of the Library

Period of loan : July 22 Friday － September 22 Thursday, 2022

Return due date : October 7 Friday, 2022　

(2) Graduate students / Part-time faculty

Period of loan : July 22 Friday － September 6 Tuesday, 2022

Return due date : October 7 Friday, 2022   

Due date of the Library book material for students who expect to graduate in September, 2022 is August 31, 2022.

The students who have already decided to postpone their graduation, please consult the Library by August 31.

Due to the library system maintenance, the following services will be unavailable from July 7 ( Thu.) 10:00 pm to 2:00 am.

　・Library Homepage

　・Sophia OPAC

　・Access to E-Journals & Databases.

We are sorry for the inconvenience.

The following databases trial started today (by June 24, 2022).

・“Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800”
This database contains virtually every book, Bible, sermons, poetry, novels, speeches, textbooks, cooking recipes, maps, advertisements, catalogs, contracts, treaties, laws, opera, travel books published in America over a 160-year period.
In addition to English, it also includes material in German, French, and Algonquin, the language of the Native Americans.

【How to access】
OPAC(Serach database)>(Purpose)Trial databases

*To use the database, you need to log in to "My OPAC".

*Need VPN access when you use off campus.
https://ccweb.cc.sophia.ac.jp/en/userguide/network/nw-04-en/

The library will hold workshops on how to use the library and how to search for materials.
Click here for details→2022 Spring Semester Library Workshop Calendar(2022.4-7) .pdf

We look forward to your participation.

Due to the system maintenance, Digital Archives, Repository for Academic Resources, Rarebook database will be suspended on Tuesday, March 29th.

We thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

Library will hold a workshop on RefWorks, a literature management software.

RefWorks is a very useful tool that can not only manage bibliographic information of databases, but also create reference lists and citation information from them. In addition, the new RefWorks can now save PDF documents.

If you already have an account or would like to take this opportunity to get started, please join us！

【Basic】
Date and hour : March 24,2022(Thu.) 15:30-16:30
Date and hour : April 14,2022(Thu.) 15:30-16:30

【Advances】
Date and hour : March 25,2022(Fri.) 15:30-16:30
Date and hour : April 15,2022(Fri.) 15:30-16:30

【Common to all sessions】

 Location: Online workshop (details will be contacted to applicants at a later)

 Target: Undergraduate and graduate students, faculty members

 Apply from here.

Refworks Workshop(2022.3-4).pdf

Library online service will be unavailable due to Network Expansion as planned below.

We apologize for any inconveniences.

Date & Time:

・2/12（Sat.）11:30-13:00

・3/7（Mon.） 18:30-24:30

Service to suspend:

・My OPAC service such as loan period extension or reservation and delivery request and so on.

・Access to E-jornals & Databases.

For details, please see the ICT Office Homepage.

Tomorrow's service hours (Central Library, Law School Library, and Mejiro Seibo Campus Library) will change as below.

We apologize for the inconvenience, and appreciate your cooperation.

  〔Change Date〕 Thursday, February 10.

     Service hours（including use of PC room）：9:00-18:00

     ※However, the Central Library is open from 9:00 to 20:00 as usual.

At a time of weather warning, the service may stop even during opening hours.

Please check the service schedule for the weather warning announcement on the Library Homepage.

Due date of the Library book material for students who expect to gradute in March, 2022 is March 10, 2022.  Please be sure to return until the return due date.

The students who have already decided to postpone their graduation, please consult the Library Circulation Counter or email from Sophia Mail to the address below by March 10. （lib-info@sophia.ac.jp）.

To whom having overdue books by the day when graduation decided, Official Transcript might be not issued.

Applications received by December 21 will be processed by the end of the year.
Applications received after December 22 will be processed after January 5, 2022.

The other day, there was a fraudulent access of mass downloading to the database of the university contract. The database is an information asset that stores important data such as newspaper articles, journal articles or corporate data. Therefore, the companies that provide the database take individual security measures. Not only is the act of searching and downloading a large amount of data in a short period of time prohibited, but it may also lead to the misunderstanding that it is attacking the database.

The contents of terms of service and use conditions, etc. vary depending on the provider, but generally, the following acts are prohibited.

Any serious breach of these requirements will result in the online service(s) being interrupted not only for the individual but for the whole university system. All users are requested to refer to the contents of the User Regulations, Terms and Conditions, and User Agreement, etc., before accessing to such data.

1）Use for any purpose other than personal academic research and education
2）Reproduction and redistribution to a third person.
3）The thing which downloads a great deal of files together (Even manual is bad.)
4）Downloading material in a way that breaches copyrights, such as downloading entire volumes or issues or revising downloaded materials

News of long-term loan in spring vacation

(1) Undergraduate students ( Auditors, Sophia School of Social Welfare students,Sophia University

Junior College division students and Course of Midwifery students are included too. ) / Participants of

Grief Care Professional Program / Friends of the Library

Period of loan : January 24 Monday － March 31 Thursday, 2022

Return due date : April 15 Friday, 2022

(2) Graduate students / Part-time faculty

Period of loan : January 24 Monday － March 15 Tuesday, 2022

Return due date : April 15 Friday, 2022

（3）Due date of the Library book material for students who expect to graduate in March,2022 is

  March 10, 2022.　The students who have already decided to postpone their graduation, please consult the Library （TEL：03-3238-3055） by March 10.

We also accept your application by e-mail (lib-info@sophia.ac.jp).

We will be closing our online application during the following periods.

1. Request loan of materials: December 8th - January 4th
2. Request copy of materials: December 24th- January 4th.
➢Request received after 12:00p.m. on December 21th will be proceeded after January 5th.

Some e-mails such as reservation available notice and due date reminders are not being sent.

That is presently under investigation. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Please check MYOPAC for reservation status inquiries and due dates.

Due to the library system maintenance, Library Homepage and OPAC will be unavailable.

We are sorry for the inconvenience. The schedule is as follows.

Date and time: From October 7 (Thu.)  10:30 pm to 11:00pm

Thelibrary plans to replace the library system this summer.  For replacement of library system, pleasenote that there are some restrictions on service during the replacement periodand preparation period.

Replacement preparation period / replacementperiod

Replacementpreparation period : August 29(Sun) – September 4 (Sat) 18:00

Replacementperiod : September 4(Sat) 18:00 – September 12 (Sun)

Services on Replacement preparationperiod

AsOPAC Online can not be used, the following service will change

A)    Cannotcheck the status of the books you have borrowed

B)    Borrowingbooks cannot be extended thru OPAC Online.

C)    Cannotmake a reservation for books.  To make areservation, please contact

lib-info@sophia.ac.jp

Services on Replacement period　　　　

Services arenot available.  The library will beclosed.

The OPAC and URL will change.(Renewal!)

If you havebookmarked the library URL, please access the new URL after September 13^thand re-bookmark it.  When system replacementis completed, you can access new OPAC.

The designof the Homepage will also be changed. OPAC system will have more search tabs and will be more convenient.

【HP】　　www.lib.sophia.ac.jp
【OPAC】　https://www.lib.sophia.ac.jp/opac/opac_search/