Update July 4 2022

In compliance with the government’s request, we regret to announce that we will suspend the following library services as a measure against the further spreading of the Novel Coronavirus infections (COVID-19).

The Main Library

Effective from April 1 2022
Opening Hours  Weekdays 10am-8pm, Saturdays 12pm-5pm

※Start of Summer Holidays(July 29) – August 31 2022
Open: 10am – 5pm
Stacks Services: 11am – 11:55am, 12:50pm – 4:40pm
Borrowing (excluding stacks services) / Returning: 9am – 4:45pm

Limited for current members of UTokyo and emeritus professors

Service details:
*Entrance to the stack room
*Use of the photocopier
*Checking out the materials
*Use of the carrels and reading seats (Limited)

The Resources and Historical Collections Office (Shiryo-shitsu)

■ Limited-Opening: please inquire⇒E-mail: shiryo@e.u-tokyo.ac.jp 【from October 1 2020】

■  Temporal checkout of materials in Resources and Historical Collections Office

1. The following conditions should be satisfied to checkout.
・Location field in UTokyo OPAC : Eco.Lib.Resources
・Status field in UTokyo OPAC: etc2
・Books or Journals
・Not deteriorated materials

2. Applicable person for this temporal checkout
・Staffs/Faculties at the Faculty of Economics, Graduate students, Undergraduate students who are writing graduation theses in this year.

3. Checkout condition
・See “Our loan policies on the number of items and loan periods” in the library website.
・Unable to reniew the checkout period
We may ask you to return the checked out materials even during the checkout period in case of returning to normal operation or if the material becomes in need for our work.

4. Application
・Please contact us from Application Form below for temporal checkout. We will contact you by return email.
http://www.lib.e.u-tokyo.ac.jp/?page_id=11669 (Application Form)

These measures may be changed depending on how the situation goes.
Please check our website and twitter to stay informed of any further changes.

contact information

The Main Library (Service Section) :
E-mail: unyo@e.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Tel: 03-5841-5562
Fax: 03-5841-5527

Resources and Historical Collections Office (Shiryo-shitsu) :
E-mail: shiryo@e.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Tel: 03-5841-5591
Fax: 03-5841-5531

In compliance with the government’s request, we regret to announce that we will cancel the special exhibition on March 17, Traces of Reading: Hand-Written notes in Adam Smith’s Library as a measure against the further spreading of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-2019).

We apologize for any inconvenience and we appreciate your understanding and cooperation.

This exhibition is canceled.

We organize the Special Exhibition in commemoration of the 120th Anniversary of The Library of Economics, The University of Tokyo and the 100th Anniversary of Adam Smith’s Library.
This exhibition is also concurrently held with the International Adam Smith Society Tokyo Conference (15th-17th March 2020) at our Faculty.

【Special Exhibition】Traces of Reading : Hand-writing notes in Adam Smith’s Library

Date:  17th March 2020 Tue 11:00am – 5:00pm
Place: Kojima Conference Room in the Economic Research Annex (Kojima Hall), Graduate School of Economics, the University of Tokyo
Host: The Library of Economics and the Resources and Historical Collections Office, Faculty of Economics, the University of Tokyo
Poster(pdf)

Main exhibit (If you click titles, you can browse digital archives.)
・Antiquities & scenery of the north of Scotland : in a series of letters to Thomas Pennant, Esqr.
・Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth, ecclesiasticall and civill
・A treatise of human nature : being an attempt to introduce the experimental method of reasoning into moral subjects