Asia-focused Collections and Services
The University of Melbourne Library (http://www.lib.unimelb.edu.au) houses one of the best Asian Collections in Australia. The majority of Chinese and Japanese language materials at Melbourne are housed in the East Asian Collection, third floor, Baillieu Library. Other than East Asian languages materials, Arabic and Indonesian language materials are inter-shelved with the western language materials in the Baillieu Library and the research collection in the ERC Library.
Chinese Collection:
The main areas of strength are language, history of China (from Ming Dynasty onwards), Buddhism and Taoism, Chinese literature, local gazetteers, customs and culture, Chinese medicine, reference and bibliographies. Of particular interest to researchers is the strong collection of Chinese microforms and Chinese electronic databases.
Japanese collection
The strengths of this collection are applied and sociolinguistics, language teaching and learning, social problems and popular culture, modern Japanese history, art and architectural history. The CD-ROM and microform collection includes many newspaper sources from the 1880s to the present, and there is an ever-growing collection of audio-visual material.
Arabic collection
The main focus is on Arabic language and literature. The collection includes a substantial microform collection of Middle Eastern manuscripts.
Indonesian collection
The collection focus is on politics, history, society, Islamic studies, human rights, Chinese and other minority groups, and modern literature.
Further information about the East Asian Collection can be found on the East Asian Collection Web site: http://www.lib.unimelb.edu.au/collections/asian/
Asian Studies Subject Librarians at the University of Melbourne
Ms Bick-har Yeung
East Asian Librarian (Chinese Studies)
Phone: 8344-5362
e-mail: bhy@unimelb.edu.au
Ms Michelle Hall, Japanese Studies Librarian
Phone: 8344-5365
e-mail: hall@unimelb.edu.au
Dr Aline Scott-Maxwell,
Indonesian Studies Library Consultant
Phone: 8344-8945
e-mail: alinesm@unimelb.edu.au
Online Inquiry
http://www.lib.unimelb.edu.au/inquiry/
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