User's Guide

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Gifu Prefectural Library For registered users (External Links)

Opening Hours

  • Tuesday - Friday 10:00am - 8:00pm
  • Weekends & Holidays 10:00am - 6:00pm

Closed Day

  • Mondays (If Monday is a holiday the following day)
  • Book maintenance: Final Friday of every month
  • End of year holidays
  • Other:Book checks

Access

  • 15-minute walk from JR Nishi Gifu station
  • Gifu bus

    From JR Gifu station take the Kagashima-Ichihashi line for Ichihashi, get off at "Kenbijutsukan" and walk for 3 minutes.

At the Library

  • Freely use the books lined up in the reading area.
  • When looking for a book, use a search station or ask the staff at Counter 2.

Borrowing and Returning

Library Card

  • When borrowing a book, magazine or AV materials, a library card is necessary.
  • Fill out the library card application form and submit it to the "library card issuance" window at Counter1.Please bring an ID card with your address attached as proof of residence (driver's license, health insurance card or other).

Borrowing

  • Take your library card and items you want to check out, to the "Circulation Desk"
  • You may also use self-checkout machines in front of Counter 1.
  • The loan limit is 10 items per person. (You may take up to 3 of each of the following: large picture books, large Kamishibais and AV materials). The loan period is 3 weeks.
  • Some items including reference books, local materials, newspapers, magazines and AV materials cannot be borrowed.

Returning

  • Return materials to the "Circulation Desk"
  • When returning items outside of opening hours, please use the "book drop" located near the north-side entrance. (For AV materials, large picture books, large Kamishibais and materials borrowed from other libraries, bring directly to the desk.)

Non-local Residents

  • You may borrow our materials through your local library.
  • Materials borrowed from our library may be returned to a different library. (Inquire for participating libraries).

Reference Service

  • We will help you find necessary books for your research and study.
  • For materials relating to Gifu prefecture and maps, go to the local materials and map counter (2F)
  • For children's books, go to Counter 1 (1F)
  • For general inquiries, go to Counter 2 (1F)
  • Inquiries may also be made by phone, e-mail, FAX and mail.

Copy Service

  • You can make photocopies of library materials within the limits of copyright law. )some valuable and other books cannot be photocopied)
  • When you want to copy part of a book, fill out the required application and submit it to counter 2 or the local material and map counter.
  • Black-and-white and color copying are available.

Reservation Service

  • You can reserve materials from the Gifu Prefectural Library collection.
  • You can reserve up to 5 items (no more than 3 AV materials).
  • You can make reservations from the library's website, at a library search station or at Counter 2. (if using the website or a search station, a library card and a registered password is required).
  • If a book is not at our library, we will do our best to provide it for you, whether through borrowing it from another library, purchasing it or another means.
  • If you have overdue materials, you cannot put anything on reserve.

Online Service

  • You can search the library's collection from the library website. If you have a library card and registered password, you can confirm materials you have on loan, have reserved and more.
  • The library sends out e-mails about reserved materials.