Tour of Japanese, Chinese and Korean Collections: University Library [West Road]

Beginners

Read and research in an East Asian language? Visit the UL’s Aoi Pavilion with over 300,000 volumes written in Japanese, Chinese, or Korean. You will see the East Asian Reading Room and Aoi bookstacks. You will learn how to find books in the open stacks and how to request them from closed stacks.

This tour will include some main areas of the UL, but readers primarily interested in English or European collections should join an ‘Orientation Tour’ instead.

• All University members (this includes colleges and departments)
• UL Readers
• Particularly suitable for those new to the UL
• Further details regarding Cambridge University Library's eligibility criteria are available

Number of sessions: 1

• To learn your way around the building and its print collections
• To discover how to navigate our catalogues
• To learn how to order from the closed stacks and find your book on the open shelves

Walking tour and demonstrations

• To enter the University Library you must have either a current University of Cambridge ID card or a current Reader's Ticket. For more information and to apply for a Reader's Ticket, please see the Admissions webpages

• Large bags and rucksacks may not be brought into the UL. Please leave yourself sufficient time before the tour to put your bag away securely in the locker room.

One session of forty-five minutes

A number of times per term