Widener Library
East, South, and Southeast Asian Collection
Widener's acquisitions from East, South, and Southeast Asia are primarily in English and other Western languages but also in Sanskrit and Tibetan. It includes humanities and social sciences materials in all formats. Harvard is also a member of the South Asia Microforms Project, the Southeast Asia Microforms Project, and the Center for Research Libraries, which gives access to additional materials from those areas in Western and Asian languages.
The central collection of publications in East Asian languages (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Manchu, Mongolian) is in the Harvard-Yenching Library, supplemented by the collections in the Harvard Law School Library, the Rübel Asiatic Research Collection in the Fine Arts Library, and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Collection (China) and Documentation Center on Contemporary Japan Collection in the Fung Library. South Asian languages in Arabic script are collected by the Middle Eastern Division in Widener. For more information contact Dr. Raymond Lum, Asian Bibliographer, via e-mail or at 617-495-0585.
Selected Web Sites
- Harvard-Yenching Library
Collections in East Asian and Western languages about East Asia - Harvard University Asia Center
Overview of Asia-related programs, Asian studies directory - Bibliography of Asian Studies
Bibliography of Western-language publications; Harvard ID required - CJK Scripts
Viewing East Asian scripts in HOLLIS - Acronyms Used by Asian/Pacific Studies' Scholars: A Dictionary
- Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library
Links to resources on all countries of Asia - Council on East Asian Libraries
Access to online catalogs of member institutions, research guides - CJK Help Center
Information on using East Asian scripts in computer application - Digital South Asia Library
Reference resources, online dictionaries, pedagogical texts, bibliographies - Cormosea
Links to research guides on Southeast Asia, directory of research institutes and programs
