Asia Library Resources

     As one of the largest East Asian language collections in North America, the Asia Library provides scholarly resources in various formats to patrons at both U-M and other institutions to support East Asian studies. The most effective way to use Asia Library’s massive collection of print resources and microforms is to search in Mirlyn, the university library’s online catalog.  Most bibliographic records for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean materials created since the late 1980s contain names and titles in the original non-Roman scripts, and thus can be searched by terms in both romanized forms and East Asian characters. Our bibliographers and subject specialists have also created the following online guides for using digital resources such as full-text databases, e-journals, e-books, and web sites:

• East Asian Studies (general)

• Chinese Studies

• Japanese Studies

• Korean Studies

     Located on the 4th floor of Hatcher Graduate Library (North), the Asia Library Reference room houses a collection of encyclopedias, language and subject dictionaries, maps, bibliographies and indexes, and many other essential reference materials in East Asian and western languages.