Asian Collections
The National Library of Australia houses the largest and most actively developing research resource on Asia in Australia.
It has over half a million volumes in the collection, as well as extensive online and electronic resources.
The Library collects resources about all Asian countries in Western languages extensively. In addition it also has the largest Asian language collections in the Southern hemisphere.
Asian language collections
| Burmese |
Cambodian |
Chinese |
Farsi |
Indonesian |
Japanese |
Khmer |
|
Korean |
Lao |
Manchu |
Mongolian |
Thai |
Timorese |
Vietnamese |
Scholarly collections on Asia
The Library has acquired a number of important Western and Asian language scholarly collections from researchers and bibliophiles. These collections include:
| Australian
Buddhist
Library Collection |
Braga Collection (
Portuguese in
Asia) |
Claasz Collection (
Sri Lanka) |
Coedes Collection (Indo-China) |
London Missionary Society Collection (
China) |
Luce Collection (
Burma) |
|
McLaren-Human Collection (
Korea) |
Otley
Beyer Collection (
Philippines) |
Sakakibara Collection ([Japan]) |
Sang Ye Collection (
China) |
Simon Collection (East
Asia) |
Harold S. Williams Collection (
Japan) |
The National Library of Australia provides an Asian Collections Reading Room, an online interactive ‘AskNow’ service and inter-library loans.
Search the Asian Collection on the National Library of Australia website here.
View an introductory video to the Asian Collections here.