Keio Media Centers (Libraries)
Keio Media Centers is the English name used by Keio University in Japan to describe its library system.
The Media Centers on the various Keio campuses are important information resources for students, faculty, and researchers. Together, they constitute one of the major academic information storehouses in Japan, holding more than 4.2 million books and publications.
Worldcat/OCLC
Keio University's libraries are fully integrated into the international shared-cataloging system known as OCLC and WorldCat, both names being used interchangeably today for the world's largest bibliographic database.In 2002, Keio University was the first Japanese university library to formally join the Research Libraries Group, an international consortium of research libraries, archives and museums linked though OCLC. RLG linked more than 140 partner institutions through OCLC, into which it merged in 2006. At the Keio Media Centers, OCLC’s comprehensive global catalog database is fully coordinated and integrated in Worldcat.
Media Center facilities
Although the holdings and other elements of the library system are physically separated across a number of campuses, all are linked in an integrated catalog access system.Mita Media Center
The Mita Media Center evolved directly from the Keio University library, created in 1912. The library's collection expanded into a new building in 1982. A combined total of 2.3 million books are housed in the Mita Media Center.A gothic, red-brick library was built in 1912 on the Mita campus. This structure has since been known as a symbol of Keio University, and now serves as an archive and venue for functions; it is recognized as an Important Cultural Property by the Japanese Government.