User Information
Users are not allowed to remove items from the library, but can browse and read them in the library's reading room. Users are not permitted in the stacks in the Oya Soichi Bunko Libraries; instead, librarians retrieve articles upon request. The articles are non-circulating but can be copied for ￥100 per page. The monochrome articles can also be sent by mail for ¥600 or colored articles for ¥700 per page, excluding shipping charges. Members of Oya Soichi Bunko can also request that articles be faxed at a cost of ¥600 per page plus a service charge.
As of 2005, the daily admission fee of ¥500 allows users to browse a maximum of 10 items. In order to browse more than that, the user must pay an additional ¥300, which allows the perusal of up to 50 items per day. As a corporate or individual member, 100 items can be examined per day. However, browsing is limited to 10 items per day in the Ogose Branch Library.
Users can search the articles in four different ways. The main source is the Magazine Article Catalog that covers the Meiji period to the present. It is published every year from Books Kinokuniya and can be found in major Japanese libraries. Second, the Oya Soichi Library Magazine Index System enables users to find over 2,700,000 articles from 1988 to the present. The system is categorized into five different indexes: persons, subjects, keywords, magazines, and writers. In addition, the Magazine Article Catalog CD-ROM has been published every year since 1997. The CD-ROM ranges from 1992 to the present; it is searcheable by topic, keyword, issue date, and genre of magazines. Lastly, the Web Oya Bunko is the newest search engine exclusively for educational institutions. It covers over 2,000,000 articles from 1988 to the present, with subscriptions costing a minimum of ¥12,600 per annum.
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