Floor Guide (Katsura Library)

2nd Floor

Open Lab/Research Commons

The Open Lab and Research Commons are spaces with environments and facilities that differ from those of laboratories, to stimulate interaction among researchers, foster intellectual activities among students, and encourage collaboration with researchers outside the university.
These spaces are available for group work and discussion, as well as for conferences and poster exhibitions.
The wall separating the Open Lab and the Research Commons is movable, and it can be used as a single area.

Media Creation Room

Media Creation Room is a place to support the creation of content for research and learning.
This room has a studio, with equipment for shooting and editing video and creating graphics. 

1st Floor

Reading Room

Books published since the 1990s and newly arrived journals are primarily held in this room.

• Books (Reading Room/Paperback/D&I Books/Nagao Collection/Large-Scale/Exhibition)
• Reference books
• Journals (Serials1/Serials2)

Stack 1

Research books transferred from Katsura and Yoshida libraries are primarily held in this stack room, organized by department classification.

• NDC10
• Civil, Environmental and Resources Engineering [GE1/GE2]
• Architecture and Architectural Engineering [AR]
• Engineering Science [ME1/ME3/AA/NE]
• Electrical and Electronic Engineering [EE]
• Chemical Science and Technology [MC/EH/PC/SB/CE/IC]
• Large-Scale Books [1/2]

Group Study Rooms

The Group Study Rooms are spaces for group work, discussion, and online meetings.

Theater Room

Theater Room is a space for viewing video materials.
Equipped with soundproofing, you can watch Blu-ray and DVD on a 4K-compatible 85-inch TV.

Study Carrels

Study Carrels are rooms for individuals to concentrate on studying.

Basement 1st Floor

Stack 2

Theses and dissertations from the Graduate School of Engineering and the School of Engineering are held in this stack room.
Prior procedures are required for access. For details, please refer to "Use of Theses/Dissertations". 

Stack 3

Block A

Natural Science BNC (Back Number Center) Journals are held in this block.
Katsura Library, which is an Area Cooperative Library, has collected a total of 3,765 titles in the library's collection, from the BNC (Back Number Center) journals including selected titles in the field of natural sciences, as part of the shared facility for the joint preservation of science and engineering materials across the university.

• Journals in Japanese [A-1]
• Journals in western languages [A-2/A-3/A-4:large-scale]

Block B, C

Back issues of journals collected by the Graduate School of Engineering and the School of Engineering are primarily held in these blocks.

• Natural Science BNC [B-1:large-scale]
• Chemical Science and Technology [B-3]
• General Engineering [B-2:large-scale/B-4]
• Chemical Abstracts [B-5]
• Electrical and Electronic Engineering [B-6]
• Civil, Environmental and Resources Engineering [C-1:large-scale/C-3/C-4/C-5]

Basement 2nd Floor

Stack 4

Particularly old books collected by the Graduate School of Engineering and the School of Engineering are held in this stack room.

• Architecture and Architectural Engineering [Masuda Collection / Tamakoshi Collection / Fukushima Collection / AR2-1 / Classic Books]
• Civil, Environmental and Resources Engineering [Okino Collection/GE1/GE2/GE3]
• Engineering Science [ME2/Large-Scale Books]

Stack 5 (Block D, E)

Block D, E

Back issues of journals collected by the Graduate School of Engineering and the School of Engineering are primarily held in these blocks.

• Architecture and Architectural Engineering [D-1:large-scale/D-2]
• Engineering Science [E-1/E-2:large-scale]

Block F

Oversized and particularly old books collected by the Graduate School of Engineering and the School of Engineering are held in this block.

• Architecture and Architectural Engineering [AR2]

How to Access the Basement Stack Rooms

• Kyoto University users: 
  • Please complete the procedures to enter the stack rooms at the information desk on the 2nd floor. 
  • Personal belongings are not allowed inside the basement stack rooms. Please use lockers. 
  • You can also place holds to reserve materials in advance.
• Non-Kyoto University users:
  •  Direct access to the basement stack rooms are not permitted.  If you would like to use any materials, please ask at the information desk.