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Please show your student ID or your library card to enter the building.
Please set your mobile phone to silent mode . In the media information room, please turn it off.
Before taking any books from the Library, check them out on the 1st floor in the Library.
You will be charged for the cost of replacing any damaged or lost Library materials.
If you are engaged in behavior that disturbs other Library users, you will be asked to leave the Library.
Eating, drinking, and smoking are not permitted inside the Library.
Typing rooms are available for portable computer use.
You are responsible for your personal belongings.

Notice about copying

Copies of the materials in the library can be made only in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright Law.

Be sure to observe the following regulations:

1. Only up to half of any book can be copied.
2.As for an article in the latest issue of a periodical, only up to half of it can be copied.However, all of the article can be copied after the next issue of the periodical has been published or after at least three months have past since the current issue was published.
3.Multiple copies of the same material are prohibited.
4.The purpose of any copying has to be limited to research and studies.
5.Re-copying and distribution for profit are prohibited.