[Update as of October 27, 2025, 9:40 am] The maintenance has finished. Thank you for your cooperation.
Due to the maintenance of the network, some library services will be unavailable as follows.
Friday, October 24, 2025, there will be an interruption lasting approximately 20 minutes between 12:15 and 13:00
Subject：Otsuka Library
Unavailable Services
- Campus-wide (Zengaku) computer terminals and printers
- Library PCs (Internet browsing and printing are unavailable.)
- Self-Checkout Machine
- Wireless LAN
Friday, October 24, 2025, there will be an interruption lasting approximately 20 minutes at each of the following locations between 18:15 and 23:00.
Subject：Central Library, Art and Physical Education Library, Medical Library, and Library on Library and Information Science
Unavailable Services
- Campus-wide (Zengaku) computer terminals and printers
- Library PCs (Internet browsing and printing are unavailable.)
- Self-Checkout Machine
- Wireless LAN
- Wired LAN (Central Library Study Cubicles, Medical Library Seminar Rooms, and Library on Library and Information Science Seminar Room）
Central Library will gradually become unavailable in phases, the main bldg 1-2F, the main bldg 3-5F and Annex, you may be able to access the network by moving to another floor.
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Saturday, October 25, 2025, there will be several interruptions each lasting approximately 30 minutes at each of the between 12:15 and 13:00.
●In-library services
Subject：Library on Library and Information Science, Otsuka Library
（*Central Library, Art and Physical Education Library, and Medical Library will be closed.）
- Campus-wide (Zengaku) computer terminals and printers
- Library PCs (Internet browsing and printing are unavailable.)
- Self-Checkout Machine
- Wireless LAN
- Wired LAN (Library on Library and Information Science Seminar Room）
●Web services
〇From off-campus network
Since all servers on-campus will be unavailable, the following library services will also be unavailable.
- Library Catalog (OPAC)
- Tulips Search will not be able to search library books and journals either.
- Please use CiNii Books as an alternative.
Enter KI000174 in the Organization ID to narrow your search to only materials held by the University of Tsukuba. Search example
- My Library
- Renewal of loan period
- Book reservation and delivery order
- Interlibrary loan (ILL) service
- Book purchase/recommendation
- Facility reservation system
- EJ/DB remote access service （EZproxy）
〇Available Services
- Tulips Search https://tsukuba.summon.serialssolutions.com/en/
- Tsukuba Repository https://tsukuba.repo.nii.ac.jp/
- E-Journals List https://jn2xs2wb8u.search.serialssolutions.com/
- Tulips Linker (link resolver)
- Tulips Discovery
〇From on-campus network
All network connections will be unavailable. As a result, all of the library's web services, including the ones listed above as Available Services, will be unavailable.
Thank you for your cooperation.