This paper describes differences of the learning support of learning commons between Academic Libraries in the U.S. and Japan. As a result, four differences are revealed: the difference in dropout rates and college-going rate, the difference of learning support organizations located in universities, the difference of support system to the learning commons, absence of Information Commons to influence the style of learning commons in each countries.

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The writing support desk was launched as a new service of the Learning Commons in International Christian University Library. The writing support desk is an attempt to understand the needs of students and establish the training program for tutors. Although it hasn't been long since the writing support desk started, the amount of people using it increases and we achieve high-user satisfaction. The writing center will become firmly established as the service of the Learning Commons, so it will lead to future development of the library.

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Ochanomizu University Learning Commons and cafe space were set up in April, 2007 to provide an interactive study space for students. It symbolizes one of the University's recent educational reform plans and serves as a collaboration base for the library and other student-affairs offices. And moreover, Ochanomizu University Library began a program called "LiSA: Library Student Assistant Program". "The LiSA program" was established to provide learning and teaching support services to students: it provides learning support by introducing students to a wide range of materials. This paper reports on how a small scale library was able to provide interactive study space to students and learning support services.

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We introduce our user support by online databases and the Internet according to the following three points. 1) Service of online databases and short seminar about them 2) Examples of E-mail reference 3) The activity of the Meeting of Cooperative Reference Service between our library and city libraries and the result of questionnaire by the Meeting about the Internet service among the libraries of Tokyo. About this result we focus on the analysis of the present situation of online databases introduced by each library.

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Bibliographic database and bibliography management software normally need training for end users. University library had been providing face to face training for those materials to encourage usage, however current users including digital native generation, are not tend to attend training sessions. Hiroshima Univ, Kyushu Univ had tried new training style which allow more users to attend by using webinar.

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In this article, it is introduced an outline of patent search databases of the Turkish Patent Institute. Their website has two patent databases. One is "Search" database to search patents by keywords, applicant, IPC (international patent classification), etc., and the other is "File Tracking" database to check patent status. All of the data in the database is entered in Turkish; however, we can choose the user interface language of the database from Turkish and English. It is convenient for us to use the English interface.

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Owing to the revision of the ministerial ordinance of the School Education Low enforcement rule, the research institutions' need for constructing their own Guide to Researchers has arisen. Researchmap, which is the scientific infrastructural service for researchers, prepares the data providing function for external systems. Application of this function enables research institutions to disclose their own Guide to Researchers at low cost in a short period. At the same time, researches are able to disclose their high qualified information of research activities sustainably for a long period. This paper will present the merits of the application of Researchmap in a cloud environment to construct individual Guide to Researches by research institutions.

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