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Entrance Hall / 1F
| Situated next to the Institute Hall, the Library Entrance Hall is just beyond the automatic doors. Library news is posted on the bulletin board in front of the front entrance. |
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Browsing Area / 1F
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Prominent features are the lounge suite and large, elliptical table. The wide, circular window gives this corner an open feeling. During the winter months, the Corner is kept warm by a floor heating system. We provide wide variety of newspapers and general magazines from around Japan and the world here for students, faculty members, and also local residents. |
 
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Entrance & Exit Gates / 1F
| To enter the library, JAIST ID card (student, staff, or researcher ID card), or library user’s card is required. |
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Information Counter / 1F
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When you have any questions regarding the use of the library, please ask the staff at the counter. In case of staff absence, please dial extension 1191. (Office hours: 8:30-17:15 on weekdays) |
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Hall / 1F
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A ceramic relief of the frontispiece from Francis Bacon's 'Novum Organum' (Instauratio Magna) is on the wall near the entrance gate. This piece describes 'a sailboat of Science ventures into the unknown world through ‘Pillars of Hercules’, when the new continents were not yet known to Europe in the Middle Ages. A first edition of 'Novum Organum' (Instauratio Magna) is displayed inside the glass case by the relief. |
 
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[New Wing] Compact Shelving / 1F
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Japanese and foreign journals before2000 are in the compact shelving. If the journals published in 2000 are bound with 2001 ones, then they are in the shelves on the 2nd and 3rd floor of the new wing. Yearbooks, conference proceedings, lecture notes, reports, Chemical Abstracts, and reduced-size editions of Japanese newspapers are in the compact shelving regardless of their published year. * To enter this floor, please take the stairs from the 2nd floor of the new wing. |
 
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