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KYUSHU UNIV GUIDE BOOK 2014_15_02

■ Ample Content and CollectionsBroad Communication of Scholarly Information■ Creating, Supporting and Publishing Quality Educational ResourcesThe Innovation Center for Educational Resource (ICER) provides educationalmaterials that actively utilize information and communications technology.The center develops course videos and digital resources that use 3-Dcomputer graphics. The digital materials available on YouTube, iTunes U,OpenCourseWare and elsewhere to broadly provide learning opportunitiesto the general public as well as to students. The ICER also produces Englishresources for classes in that language, which are being promoted as part ofthe administration’s efforts to internationalize education at the university.Since its founding the library has amassed one of the best collections inJapan?over four million volumes and over 70,000 titles of electronic journals,electronic books and other media?to provide solid support for learning,teaching, and research. The library also broadly communicates scholarlyinformation produced and accumulated by the university in such forms asuniversity research results and rare collections, and this helps stimulateacademic research, education and industry in the region.■ New Central Library（Central Library for Internationalization） for Kyushu University’s Next 100 YearsThe university’s new Library project is currently under waybased on the following concepts?encourage, link, createand cultivate. The new Library will be located adjacent toShiiki Auditorium and connected to the Arts and ScienceBuilding by a bridge. It will feature a distinctive designwith the rooftop functioning as a liberal arts campus,and it will provide a variety of study spaces and amplematerials to serve as a center for active learning,academic research and internationalization.Automated stacks at Ito Library■ Always at the Fore:a Leader in Library ScienceThe library constantly seeks to enhance its functions by introducingnew librar y technologies, for example, developing new, moreuser-friendly search systems.■ Developed and instituted tools for integrated access to diverse library resources■ Cutting-Edge R&D at the Library Research and Development Division■ Instituted radio-frequency identification tags's and automated stacks■ Developed catalog card image search systemKYUSHU UNIVERSITY : D ISCOVERY ｜ 31