"JAIST Library News" is published on an irregular basis and provide you with information about Library services and materials.

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We would like to inform you about the 8th J-BEANS Seminar as follows.

This seminar is held for not only JAIST members but also local community with the view to share our intellectual resources. Some light meals and drinks will be served, and we expect your participation.
*Poster of J-BEANS Seminar (8)

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[CONTACT]
Research Support Section (E-mail：josei@jaist.ac.jp)

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ILL service will halt for the period as follows.
Therefore, we cannot process your photocopy requests and book loan requests to other university libraries during this period.
If you would like to get photocopies or books through ILL service by the end of this year, please place the order by noon on December 14, 2012.

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We would like to inform you about the 7th J-BEANS Seminar as follows.

This seminar is held for not only JAIST members but also local community with the view to share our intellectual resources. Some light meals and drinks will be served, and we expect your participation.

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[CONTACT]
Research Support Section (E-mail：josei@jaist.ac.jp)

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The inventory will be conducted according to the schedule below.

During the inventory, we will place ropes to indicate off-limit areas and restrict access to the shelves partly for a fixed time. If you would like to use a material in the off-limit areas, please ask the library staff. The other areas of the library are available, but please note that some noises can be expected. The library materials left on desks or tables will be returned to the shelves for smooth operation.

Thank you in advance for your understanding and patience.

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• Date and hour: December 13, 2012(Thu.) 8:30am - 5:00pm
• Schedule: Start at the third floor and go down (*This schedule is subject to change.)

[Contact] JAIST Library (E-mail: toshokan@jaist.ac.jp)

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As for the acquisition of library materials, the books for students are selected based upon the recommendations by faculty members. We have planned a book selection opportunity by inviting books from booksellers. In this way, you can take a look at the actual books in your own hands to check the contents before the purchase.

Foreign books (about 350 books) mainly related in Knowledge Science and Information Science areas are invited on approval.
Please attend the event to help us with selecting books.

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• 1. Date & Time: November 13 and 14, 2012. 10:00 - 16:30

• 2. Place: Learning Commons "J-BEANS" (1F, Institute Hall)

• 3. Expected Books: New Foreign books and foreign books for students’ study and research related in Knowledge Science and Information Science areas.
  
  [The book list]
  http://www2.jaist.ac.jp/~syori/library_html/booklist.xlsx
  * Accessible from JAIST network only

• 4. Selection Method: Please fill out necessary information in the “Selection List” provided at the book fair, and submit it to the staff.

• 5. Propriety of Purchase: At the Library Governing Board, Expert Committee Meeting, the purchase of the books in the list is determined.

【Contact】Library Information Section, Research Affairs Department kanri＠jaist.ac.jp

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We would like to inform you about the 6th J-BEANS Seminar as follows.

This seminar is held for not only JAIST members but also local community with the view to share our intellectual resources. Some light meals and drinks will be served, and we expect your participation.

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[CONTACT]
Research Support Section (E-mail：josei@jaist.ac.jp)

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We will hold the training session for the "Web of Science" database as follows.
Please come and join us. (This session is conducted in Japanese.)

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JAIST Library conducted a survey to improve the library services by figuring out opinions and requests of the library users as Research Study Support Library and Information Dissemination Type Library.
The following is the results of the survey. Thank you for your cooperation.

• Period: July 9, 2012 - July 27, 2012

• Number of respondents to the survey: 126

• Results: The results of JAIST Library User Survey（PDF）
  (* Accessible from JAIST network only)
  

【Contact】JAIST Library　（E-mail：toshokan@jaist.ac.jp / Ext.1191）

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We would like to inform you about the 5th J-BEANS Seminar as follows.

This seminar is held for not only JAIST members but also local community with the view to share our intellectual resources. Some sandwiches and drinks will be served, and we expect your participation.

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[CONTACT]
Research Support Section (E-mail：josei@jaist.ac.jp)

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We would like to inform you about the 4th J-BEANS Seminar as follows.

This seminar is held for not only JAIST members but also local community with the view to share our intellectual resources. Some sandwiches and drinks will be served, and we expect your participation.

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[CONTACT]
Research Support Section (E-mail：josei@jaist.ac.jp)

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We have decided that the available time of the library for the general public under the age of 19 (18 years or younger) is from 8:30 to 22:00 since August 1, 2012.
Please leave the library by 22:00 and safely go home.
If you do not observe the time restrictions set by the library, it may lead your being prohibited the library use.

*The general public over the age of 19 (19 years or older) and JAIST members can use the library for 24 hours a day as before.

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We would like to inform you about the 3rd J-BEANS Seminar as follows.

This seminar used to be held as "Cooperation Seminar". From the new academic year, it is renewed as J-BEANS Seminar open to local community. Some sandwiches and drinks will be served, and we expect your participation.

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[CONTACT]
Research Support Section (E-mail：josei@jaist.ac.jp)

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JAIST Library conducts this survey to improve the library services by figuring out opinions and requests of the library users. We appreciate your cooperation.

Contact: JAIST Library （E-mail:toshokan@jaist.ac.jp Ext.：1191）

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E-Journals are getting more and more popular, and we assume most of you are already taking advantage of them. But did you know there are more of convenient features than just reading articles? We think these features are the key points for collecting the research information effectively.

JAIST library is offering a training session for SciVerse ScienceDirect, which is provided by Elsevier and collects over 30 percent of e-journals JAIST is subscribing to. The expert trainer will give you a practical hands-on session.

Please join us and learn the technique one step further.

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We would like to inform you about the 2nd J-BEANS Seminar as follows.

This seminar used to be held as "Cooperation Seminar". From the new academic year, it is renewed as J-BEANS Seminar open to local community. Somesandwiches and drinks will be served, and we expect your participation.

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[CONTACT]
Research Support Section (E-mail：josei@jaist.ac.jp)

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For the security reason, we will stop the Wired LAN service in the library. If network access is need, please use Wireless LAN service (*).

Wired LAN service stop at:　3:30 p.m. on June 11, 2012 (Mon.)

* Pre-registration required for Wireless LAN

• JAIST Member:
  • Please visit the following URL, and jump to the URL marked as **How to get connected**, then register your computers.
    http://isc-w3.jaist.ac.jp/iscenter/index.php?id=203&L=1
• General Public User:
  • Please apply at the library information counter.
    When you apply, bring your library user’s card and identification with your current address on it.
    (Office Hours: 8:30 - 17:00 on weekdays)

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We are planning to bind academic journals published in 2010 and before as following schedule. Therefore for some period you can not browse or borrow those journals. Thank you for your cooperation.

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We would like to inform you about the 1st J-BEANS Seminar as follows.
This seminar used to be held as "Cooperation Seminar". From the new academic year, it is renewed as J-BEANS Seminar open to local community.
Some sandwiches and drinks will be served, and we expect your participation.

NOTE:

[CONTACT]
Research Support Section (E-mail：josei@jaist.ac.jp)

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JAIST Library has subscribed new databases as below. We hope you willmake use of them for your research.

1. NAXOS Music Library (Japanese interface)
   The music streaming service which contains classic, jazz, and ethnic musics in the world.
2. JapanKnowledge Plus N (in Japanese only)
   JapanKnowledge contains more than 40 different types of content from a wide range of sources
   including Japan's leading encyclopedias, specialized dictionaries, series and magazines.
3. Britannica ONLINE JAPAN (Encyclopedia Britannica)
   The knowledge portal site that based on "Encyclopedia Britannica" in several languages.
   (Japanese / English / Chinese / Korean / French / Spanish Version)

*We have also started to introduce eBooks from this April. Please try them, too.

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On February 3rd at 1 p.m., we held the Learning Commons naming ceremony at "J-BEANS". The three persons who had proposed the ideas that bacome the basis for Common's nickname "J-BEANS", were invited to the ceremony. Prof. Miyaji (Library Director) expressed appreciation and handed the prepaid book cards to them. On the same day, we unveiled "J-BEANS"'s logo on the glass wall next to the entrance door. It is designed in vitamin colors and so nice. We hope that many users will visit and utilize "J-BEANS" in the future.

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In the library, upon opening the Learning Commons, we had invited suggestions for a nickname for the room from November 18 to December 2, 2011. We received 79 entries. We appreciate all of the many great ideas and suggestions that were submitted for the nickname for the Learning Commons.

The entries were discussed at the Library Governing Board the other day, and we inform you that the decision has been made for the nickname. The nickname has been decided as "J-BEANS (Jay Beans)" since the expression agreed best as the meaning of the Learning Commons and the impression of the room.
As for the nickname and its meaning, they are based on the suggestions of three entries: "JAIST Beans" (JAIST Staff, Name Not Disclosed), "Brainstorming, creative and relaxing room" (JAIST Student, Mr. Vu Luyen Thi) and "Soramame (a broad bean)" (JAIST Staff, Mr. Katsumi Toda). Please visit here for details.

We apologize that the announcement has taken much longer than anticipated.

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We are pleased to announce that we have launched “JAIST Repository Related Faculty and Research Search System” as follows.

1. JAIST Repository Related Faculty and Research Search System URL
  https://dspace.jaist.ac.jp/search/ir_search_eng.html

2. Overview of the system

• Search the JAIST Repository articles by entered keywords and show the results by each faculty member.
    (Sort ordering: in order of the number of searched articles by keyword.)
• On the search results page, faculty members and their articles will show on one page. Also, you can view "Related Keywords" (see *1), and search faculty's articles again that contain the same author keywords by a related keyword.
  
    (*1) Related Keywords: "Related Keywords" are extracted from the author keywords in the articles that include the entered word.
    The detail is available at here.

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