University Libraries

The University Libraries are composed of the Central Library at Kakuma North Campus, the Medical Branch Library at Takara-machi Campus and the Natural Science and Technology Library at Kakuma South Campus.

The Library comprehensively incorporated the libraries of the university's predecessor schools, including the Fourth Higher School ("Shikou"), Ishikawa Teacher Training School, Kanazawa Medical College, and Kanazawa Higher School of Technology, inheriting and preserving these schools’ collections. The library currently has over 1.75 million volumes, which include a large number of noted collections such as the Akegarasu Haya Collection among others. In recent years, the Library has also been making an effort to collect and offer materials in new media formats like electronic journals, while collecting and preserving the university’s academic property and research findings via the newly constructed Kanazawa University Repository for Academic Resources (KURA), as well as transmitting such information to the rest of the world.

These libraries are equipped with up-to-date facilities. For example, the Central Library has reading rooms with over 970 seats, seminar rooms, audio-visual rooms, etc., and the university’s new Natural Science and Technology Library has an automated book storage system.

The Libraries, not only support on-campus users in education, learning and research, but also play a role as a base for lifelong learning by providing their up-to-date facilities and rich materials to the public in response to social needs.

University Library

As of May 1, 2008

Library Holdings

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• University Libraries (Japanese)