FAQ

What characters can I use with the [Catalogue] tab?

Category: 2. How to Search the Library Catalogue
You can search with the original spelling (with characters as they appear in materials).
For alphanumeric characters, you can enter uppercase and lowercase characters. Single-byte and double-byte characters can both be entered.

characters

　Japanese Kanji, Hiragana, Katanaka,
　Chinese characters (Kanji) ―Simplified and Traditional
　Hangeul
　Roman alphabet
　Cyrillic alphabet *
　Greek alphabet*
　Arabic script*
　Devanagari script, African languages*
　Southeast Asian languages*

＊Searches can also use keywords converted into Roman alphabet letters using the ALA-LC Romanization Tables of the U.S. Library of Congress. Some materials are registered in Roman alphabet letters only. An index is created for them. So if the search has no hits with the original spelling, convert the keywords into Roman alphabet letters, and perform the search again.