UCLA Library Collections and Internet Resources in:

Asian Studies

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[Ball icon] Asian Studies
[Ball icon] East Asian Studies (non-vernacular)
[Ball icon] South Asian Studies
[Ball icon] Southeast Asian Studies
[Ball icon] UCLA Academic Units
[Ball icon] East Asian Library (see Selected Internet Resources on East Asia)

Asian Studies

Selected Internet Resources

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East Asian Studies (non-vernacular)

UCLA Collection Description

The Charles E. Young Research Library (YRL) collects and maintains western language materials relating to East Asian humanities and social sciences. Presently the collection's strengths lie in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean civilization, history, linguistics, literature, Buddhist studies, economics, political science, sociology, and women's studies.The western language collection of some 50,000 volumes is located in the URL stacks, interfiled with the general collection materials. The Richard C. Rudolph East Asian Library concentrates on collecting and maintaining Chinese, Japanese, and Korean vernacular language materials.

Selected Internet Resources

Sites that are predominently vernacular which need special software are not included in this list.

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South Asian Studies

UCLA Collection Description

South Asian resources include mostly western language materials and select vernacular language materials (Sanskrit,Prakrit, and Pali languages) relating to Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. UCLA's major South Asia holdings date back to 1961 when the Library purchased a collection of 1,800 volumes of Sanskrit and Vedic literature from the private library of the late Harvard professor, Walter Eugene Clark. Through the 1960's and 1970's, the Library built strong holdings in the classical languages of South Asia, the political and social history of India, the Portugese experience in South Asia, and in visual arts and music. In 1974, UCLA began participating in the Library of Congress' South Asia Cooperative Acquisitions Program (PL480), which, by supplying current books, journals, and government publications from South Asia for the cost of shipping and handling, subsidized the building of current collections. The Library is a member of South Asia Consortium West, (SACWest), which was estabilished in 1995 to share the resources of its member libraries, including UC Berkeley, the University of Hawaii at Manoa, the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Washington.

Selected Internet Resources

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UCLA Academic Units

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UCLA Library Online Materials
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East Asian Library

Page created by Liladhar Pendse, Bibliographer for South Asian Studies (lpendse@library.ucla.edu),
and Joseph Yue, Bibliographer for East Asian Studies (non-vernacular) (josephyue@library.ucla.edu).
Page maintained by Alice Hunt, Library Assistant (ahunt@library.ucla.edu).
Last updated: December 13, 2007

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