Kanagawa University Library

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The Library of the University of Kanagawa ( Japanese 神奈川大学図書館 Kanagawa Daigaku Toshokan ) is a university library in Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture , belong to the two houses - one in the Yokohama-, the other on the Shonan Hiratsuka Campus. It was founded in 1929 and owns around 1.5 million media, including various collections and rare books in European languages. It is also accessible to visitors who are not enrolled in a university. The library also has a large number of databases from various fields of knowledge that are accessible online. Announcements are published in two of the library's own journals. The magazine "Toshokan da yori" ( 図 書館 だ よ り ) reports on individual works and topics related to library use, while the magazine "Pathfinder" ( 道 し る べ Michi shiberu ) concentrates on individual topics that are frequently requested.

history

The library was founded in 1929 as the Yokohama Academy's library. In 1980 the current building of the library building took place with three floors and two basement floors, which opened in November. 1989 saw the opening of the new building on the Hiratsuka campus ( 平 塚 図 書館 Hiratsuka Toshokan ).

Collections

The library has various collections. Including the Yamaguchi Collection with 2,400 books on economics by Shigeru Yamaguchi. Also a collection of rare French books, also mainly on economics. There are also works and 1,500 lithographs on the Paris Commune . Another collection includes studies of Japan from the mid-19th century, the time the Tokugawa shogunate ended.

selection

  1. Collection des caricatures politiques de la commune de Paris, 1870-1871
  2. Maxime Vuillaume: Collection des materiaux originaux de Maxime Vuillaume relatifs a la Commune de Paris, 1870-1871
  3. Collection of encyclopedias: Incunable Etymologiae by Isidore of Seville (edition of 1483 printed in Venice), the first alphabetically sorted lexicon in English, the Lexicon technicum (1704) by John Harris and the Cyclopaedia by Ephraim Chambers (1728) and following this model a 35-volume edition of the Encyclopédie (1777, 1780) by Denis Diderot
  4. Arnoldus Montanus : Gedenkwaerdige Gesantschappen of the Oost-Indian Maetschappy in't Vereenigde Nederland, aen de Kaisaren wan Japan (1669), Engelbert Kaempfer : Amoenitatum exoticarum politico-physico-medicarum fasciculi V. (1712), Carl Peter Thunberg : Flora Japonica sistens plantas insularum Japonicarum (1784), Aime Humbert: Le Japon illustré (1870)
  5. Tokugawa Mitsukuni : Zhu Zhiyu sensei bunshū ( 舜 水 先生 文集 , 1715)
  6. Keisei Asami: Keisai sensei bunshū ( 絅 斎 先生 文集 , 1781)

Others

Address: 3 Chome-27-1 Rokukakubashi, Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 221-8686

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b About us. Kanagawa University, accessed October 27, 2019 .

Coordinates: 35 ° 29 ′ 4 "  N , 139 ° 37 ′ 9.8"  E