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| The Asia Library supports the research and teaching activities in East Asian Studies in the University community. The homepage serves as an extension of the library's services, and plays an important role in assisting faculty and students by providing easy access to the networked information resources from all over the world. |  |
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The collection of the Asia Library, mainly in Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages, is an extension of the Graduate Library's research collections for humanities and social sciences. As of December 2004, it boasts 685,725 volumes of book, 43,564 reels of microfilm, 32,243 sheets of microfiche, 2,332 CD-ROMs, 2,467 current serial titles and 79 newspapers (382,376 volumes, 30,701 reels and 24,151 sheets in Chinese; 285,494 volumes, 12,198 reels and 8,092 sheets in Japanese and 17,855 volumes, 665 reels in Korean). |
| With
the rapid
development of electronic resources in the East Asia region, and the
increasing
demand from faculty and students |
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the
university community, the Asia Library is making great efforts to meet
this challenge and to continually maintain its excellence in both
service
and collection development.
The subscriptions to Zasshi Kiji Sakuin, a Japanese journal articles index, and China Journal Net, a Chinese full-text database, as well as purchase of numerous CD-ROMs in all three languages are examples of latest major acquisitions in electronic resources under the library's programmatic activities in collection development. |
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The Webpages
developed by
the Asia Library not only provide patrons with an easy access to the
online
information resources, but also extend the library's services with the
newly developed sections: new book alert, online request forms
for acquisitions and/or reference service.
As a member of the university community Asia Library always enjoys strong supports from the International Institute. It maintains close relationships with the Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Korean Studies Program and China Data Center, as well as the Business School, William Davidson Institute and Law School in resource sharing and other academic activities. The Asia Library, as one of the units of the University
Libraries,
will continuously participate in programs and services provided by the
Documents Center, the Knowledge Navigation Center (KNC), Faculty
Exploratory
and other libraries to serve the entire University community. Asia Library |
