Overview

The III/GSII Library maintains a comprehensive and constantly expanding collection of academic books and periodicals covering the fields of information, media and communications. The Library preserves collections of materials inherited from the Institute of Journalism and Communications Studies (and its prewar predecessor) on journalism and the control of public expression. Also preserved are materials on mass media and communications from the days of the Institute of Socio-information and Communication Studies (ISICS).
Since the merger of the III and ISICS, the collection has expanded further to include all aspects of information phenomena irrespective of the division between natural sciences and humanities/social sciences.

The functions of the III/GSII Library and the Multi-media and Socio-information Studies Archive are divided in that the former focuses mainly on research publications (both books and journals) while the latter mostly collects media materials.

Subject Coverage
Newspapers, film, television, radio, publishing, communications, journalism, the Internet, media culture, advertising, disaster information, socio-information and social psychology, etc.
Number of Holdings
Approximetely 127,000 volumes (as of May 2023)

History

1929/10/01 The research department for journalism studies, the Faculty of Letters of the Tokyo Imperial University was established
1949/05/31 The Institute of Journalism and Communication Studies, the University of Tokyo was established
1992/04/10 The Institute of Journalism and Communication Studies was reorganized and renamed as the Institute of Socio-information and Communication Studies (ISICS), the University of Tokyo
[Ref. About the (Former) Institute of Socio-information and Communication Studies]
2004/04/01 The ISICS was merged with the III
[Ref. History of the III and GSII]

Rules

Library Rules

Bulletin Rules

  • Journal of Information Studies, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, The University of Tokyo
  • Research Survey Reports in Information Studies, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, The University of Tokyo

Contact/Access

Contact

Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies Library, the University of Tokyo
(III/GSII Library)

Address
7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0033 JAPAN
(5th floor of the III/GSII main building)
E-mail
tosyo [at] iii.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Phone Number
03-5841-5915 (Ext. 25915)
FAX Number
03-5841-5916

Access

Access to Hongo Campus PDF
Access to the III/GSII Mail Building in Hongo Campus PDF [Building No. 123]
Floor map of the 1st floor, III/GSII Mail Building
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