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
- Rules for Using the Library of the Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies
(Amended on Oct. 19, 2018) [in Japanese ]
Bulletin Rules
- Journal of Information Studies, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, The University of Tokyo
- Submission Guidelines
(Amended on Aug. 26, 1990) [
in Japanese ] - Manuscript Guidelines
(Amended on Mar. 23, 2020) [
in Japanese ] - Research Survey Reports in Information Studies, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, The University of Tokyo
- Submission Guidelines
(Amended on Aug. 26, 1990) [
in Japanese ] - Manuscript Guidelines
(Amended on Mar. 23, 2020) [
in Japanese ]
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) - tosyo [at] iii.u-tokyo.ac.jp
- Phone Number
- 03-5841-5915 (Ext. 25915)
- FAX Number
- 03-5841-5916
Access
Access to Hongo Campus
Access to the III/GSII Mail Building in Hongo Campus
[Building No. 123]
Floor map of the 1st floor, III/GSII Mail Building
