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MyLibrary is our web portal that provides information and resources:
◇ Log in → p.2
◇ Reservation → p.4
◇ Checking status, renewal → p.5
◇ Bookmark
◇ ILL order (senior students, graduate students, faculties only)
◇ Off campus access databases (undergraduate students, graduate students,
full time faculties only)
Welcome to MyLibrary
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Reading e-books
◇ How to read e-books → p.6
◇ How to access databases → p.7
Access databases
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Log in
Please do not forget to log out when you finish your session.
【Undergraduate students, Graduate students】
User ID:Student ID no.
Password initial value: Password of MUSCAT
【Graduate students of the Distance Learning Division 】
ID and pass word are notified by Distance Learning
Division Office.
Welcome to MyLibrary
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Due date and
pick-up due date
Add URL bookmarks
Log-out required after your session
Renew profile here
Off campus access e-resources
Usage status, renewal
Purchase request status
Inter library loan status
◆My Bookshelf
Search result
bookmarks
◆Alert
Create your alert here
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Reservation
①Reservation is available for on-loan or other library items.
②Choose the calendar icon, if there are some copies, select either of the followings ◆reserve the copy checkable out first
◆reserve selected copy only then, “Reserve”.
③Choose “OK”.
④Placing a hold is informed by e-mail. Pick up the item by the due date.
Placing a hold is valid for seven days.
After that, reservation is automatically cancelled.
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Cancelling a reservation
Choose “cancel”.
①Choose “Renew”
Renewal
Renewal is not valid when as follows:
◆you have at least one overdue item.
◆the item you want to renew has been requested by other user.
The new due date is found.
Due date is set on a designated day from the renewal time.
Renewal is valid once a day.
Cancel is valid only when status is “Reservation”.
②Log out MyLibrary
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Reading e-books
Choose chapters to read.
Text is found.
Not to forget “log out”.
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Link to online material.
◇Logging in MyLibrary is needed
for off campus access.
◇Some sites do not render on
mobile computing devices.
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On campus access : MU-NET and using PC on campus
① Visit Musashino University Library on the Internet.
② Open “Online databases”.
③ Find a database from the list.
Refine subject and feature.
④ Choose title.
Confirm to sign out when you use and finish
databases with ○ after its name.
User’s guide helps you get tips for search.
Some databases have
Concurrent session limit. Try later when your access fails.
Refine category.
Our databases are available only on campus.
When using databases off campus,
Access databases
Titles are listed in alphabetical and
Japanese syllabary order.
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❶ Visit Musashino University Library web site.
➋Choose MyLibrary from menu.
❹ Select “Off Campus Access”. Please refer to ③
on the previous page. The same applies to the following.
User ID:undergraduate/ graduate student ID no. Password initial value:(Undergraduate, Graduate student) Password of MUSCAT
Off campus access
❸ Log in “MyLibrary”.
Eligible users: All current undergraduate students (except for students of the Distance Learning Division), graduate students and full-time faculty members
ex.) Newspaper search ◆Choose “newspaper” from
drop-down subject list .
◆Submit “OK”.
*Check options with scrolling.
ex.) Journal article search ◆Choose “general” from drop-down subject list.
◆Choose “search articles” from drop-down feature list.
Some titles are not available
off campus.
Some applications and functions are not designed for smartphones.