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Asia & The Pacific » Libraries, Archives & Museums

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  • Historical Society of Pennsylvania

    Includes a research library with materials on immigration studies.

  • LibDex - The Library Index

    A worldwide directory of links to library homepages and web-based OPACs (Online Public Access Catalogs).

  • Milli Kütüphane | National Library of Turkey

    The TNL collection consists of 1,414,108 works including books, periodicals and non-book materials. There are 943,964 books and 356.340 volumes of periodicals containing newspapers, magazines, bulletins and annuals.

  • Pacific Manuscripts Bureau

    The specific aim of the Bureau is to locate and preserve archives, manuscripts and other unpublished or semi-published material through microfilm. It is interested in gathering material of historical, literary, or scientific interest to Pacific scholars which may be of value either now or in the future. Of particular concern to the Bureau are those documents at risk either from adverse climactic conditions, insect infestation, or civil unrest. It is also interested in preserving material deteriorating as a result of age or poor storage. Microfilming older at-risk records has been the moving force of the Bureau.

  • Preservation & Archives in Vietnam

    This report, based on many visits to Vietnamese libraries and archives between 1987 and 1997, examines the largely unexplored corpus of Vietnamese textual resources in research institutions and libraries there and elsewhere, the associated problems of bibliographic control, and issues of preservation.

    • Asian Reading Room

      The primary public access point for readers and researchers seeking to use the vast European collections of the Library of Congress.

      • Collections

        The Asian Division's collections are among the most significant outside of Asia and comprise almost 2 million books, periodicals, newspapers, manuscripts and microforms in the languages of East, South and Southeast Asia.

      • Korean Bibliography

        The Korean Section of the Library of Congress has prepared a bibliography of approximately 4,800 records of books about Korea in English up to 1995 held by the Library of Congress.

    • Portals in the Asian Division

      Selective links providing authoritative, in-depth information about the nations and other areas of the world. They are arranged by country or area with the links for each sorted into a wide range of broad categories. The links were selected by Area Specialists and other Library staff using Library of Congress selection criteria.

  • Trust Territory of the Pacific Archives Photos - University of Hawaii

    The Trust Territory Archives Photograph Collection is a unique resource of 50,000 photographs and 2,000 slides that documents the history of the American period in Micronesia (1947-1988), and includes invaluable visual representations of island cultures. Much of this material was salvaged from the former Trust Territory Headquarters on Saipan, and owes its very existence to the persistence of former Trust Territory Archivist Sam McPhetres and his team, who were engaged in microfilming the files of the American administration.

  • University of Wisconsin Digital Collections

    Promoting the Wisconsin idea by providing professional leadership in the creation of quality digital resources from libraries and archives for faculty, staff and students, citizens of the state and scholars at large.

    • The East Asian Collection

      The East Asian Collection includes historical images that present a visual archive of 20th century East Asian cultural heritage. Currently, the collection consists of images that document early 20th century China including the the Sino-Japanese Conflict (1937-1945), a visual history of Buddhist practices and temples in China, and other images of daily life in both rural and urban China. The completed project will be a valuable resource for research into this region and its history. Collections include W. H. Dobson, early 20th Century missionary and physician in southern China, and Holmes Welch, renouned scholar in the field of Buddhist studies and Buddhism in China.

  • Wing Luke Museum

    We connect everyone to the dynamic history, cultures, and art of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders through vivid storytelling and inspiring experiences to advance racial and social equity.

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