East Asia Library

Selected New Books

October - November 2011

March - September 2011

January-February 2011

November-December 2010

September-October 2010

July-August 2010

May-June 2010

Stanford University Library maintains a collection in Western languages to support study and teaching on Southeast Asian countries, a region with half a billion people in ten countries: Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. At the library, the focus of the collection is on English materials published in the U.S., U.K. and European countries with selective publications from Southeast Asian countries. The subjects mainly focus on economics, modern history, politics, women's studies and Islam.

The Korean Collection at Stanford University Libraries began September 2005. The collection supports research, teaching, and learning on Korea related topics at Stanford University. The current emphases of the collection are in social sciences, history, and literature.

Resources about/from Korea, which are owned by Stanford University Libraries, can be searched in SearchWorks or Socrates (old catalog).

The annual conferences of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) and Council on East Asian Libraries (CEAL) for this year has yet one more thing to celebrate: the first book dedicated to the history of East Asian libraries in North America. The book, titled Collecting Asia: East Asian Libraries in North America 1868-2008, is edited by Peter X. Zhou and published by AAS. It tells the stories of the historical development of 25 major East Asian libraries in North America over the past 140 years.