Institute of Science Tokyo Library () is the

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associated with

Institute of Science Tokyo The Institute of Science Tokyo (; branded as Science Tokyo) is a public university, public research university in Tokyo, Japan. It was officially established on 1 October 2024, by a merger between the Tokyo Institute of Technology and Tokyo Med ...

. It was established by the merger of

Tokyo Institute of Technology The Tokyo Institute of Technology () was a public university in Meguro, Tokyo, Japan. It merged with Tokyo Medical and Dental University to form the Institute of Science Tokyo on 1 October 2024. The Tokyo Institute of Technology was a De ...

and

Tokyo Medical and Dental University was a public university in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. It merged with the Tokyo Institute of Technology to form the Institute of Science Tokyo on 1 October 2024. Established in 1928, Tokyo Medical and Dental University was the oldest national schoo ...

in 2024, and houses more than 1 million books in its four library locations in Ookayama, Suzukakedai, Ochanomizu, and Konodai. Its predecessor, the Tokyo Institute of Technology Library, was established in 1882, and the Tokyo Medical and Dental University Library in 1946.

Tokyo Institute of Technology Library

Tokyo Institute of Technology Library was founded in 1882 as part of the Tokyo Vocational School, and at the time had nearly 4700 books. In the following year, expansion legislation was passed on its behalf, and it grew to over 457,000 m² by 1902. A year later the library lost nearly 28,000 books to the

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in 1923. It was rebuilt in Ookayama,

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, making its size 862 m². At the founding of the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1929, it was legally recognised. Following

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in 1948, a library committee was formed. During the 1970s a second library building was constructed in Nagatsuta. In 1986, two years after the

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was popularized, the library began a system of online journal searches with

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. Its

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started in 1995. Four years later, Tokyo Institute of Technology

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was introduced. In 2002, the library began its GIF projects, while in 2007, the library began a T2R2 system. A new library building was constructed in 2011. In The library remains extensive. It currently subscribes to approximately 19,000 books and 3,300 journals, while maintaining a collection of over 793,000 books and 26,000 journals (including 10,000 online).Facts and Statistics of Tokyo Institute of Technology Library (Japanese)
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