Southeast Asia Library Collection
| Under the supervision of its Curator, and with Council contributions, Yale maintains one of the most extensive Southeast Asia collections in the United States. |
| The collection is located primarily
in Yale's Sterling
Memorial Library along with affiliated schools (Social
Science Library, Forestry Library, Law Library, and Divinity Library).
Materials in the Southeast Asia Collection are in both western and
vernacular languages of the countries covered, and primarily emphasize
the social sciences and humanities. (The
Economic Growth Center Collection, located in the Social
Science Library, contains economic surveys, statistical publications,
development plans and censuses from over 100 developing countries,
including those of Southeast Asia.) The Yale University Library began collecting material on Southeast Asia in 1899, when Clive Day was appointed to its faculty and a teaching program concerning Southeast Asia was initiated. It was due to this early start that the library was able to acquire many of its now out-of-print serials, especially from the Dutch East Indies. Yale has participated in the PL-480 Program for acquisitions of Indonesian materials since its inception. The program is now called the Library of Congress Southeast Asia Cooperative Acquisitions Program and has expanded to include Malaysia, Singapore, and Brunei. The library also has agents in the Philippines, Vietnam, and Thailand, and for a number of years received Cambodian materials from a friend of the Library who was stationed in Phnom Penh. Two distinctive collections that have come to the library are the Maurice Durand Collection, which is particularly strong in the literature, history, and civilization of Indo-China, and the Yeh Hua Fen Collection, which consists mainly of books on Malaysia and Singapore. The Southeast Asia Collection Reading Room is located on the third floor of Sterling Memorial Library, room number 315. |
|
Richard
Richie, Curator |