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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 Southeast
Asia 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 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. |
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