IRC Near East and South Asia Subcommittee
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Purpose: To promote relations with libraries and librarians in the countries of the Near East and South Asia and to investigate matters related to these regions as referred by the International Relations Committee. The countries included in the Near East and South Asia are: Afghanistan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Maldives, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Palestinian Territories, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.
Number of members: up to seven
Terms of office: two years
Term limits: four years
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Organizations
- Middle East Studies Association (MESA).
Organizations with Middle East Libraries is US
- Middle East Studies. Brown University Library.
- Middle Eastern Library Program Research Guide. University of Texas Libraries.
- Selected Bibliographical Resources. Near Eastern Studies Library Resources. University of Michigan.
- Institute for Middle East Studies.
Middle East Societies and Associations
Africa and Middle East Book Dealers and Publishers
- Books and Serial Vendors for Africa and the Middle East: Results of a Survey of ARL Libraries.
- Middle East Publishers Association.
- Association of Jewish Book Publishers.
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Southeast Asia Organizations
- supports advanced research in the humanities and social sciences of South Asia.
- (IIAS, Leiden)
- (UK)
- South Asian regional think tank, based in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
- (UK)
- (UK)
Organizations with Asian Studies departments or Asian library and archive collections
- (Cambridge)
(University of Oxford)
(London), link to South Asia resources guide
(London), libraries and archives
COCSALD—Committee on South Asian Libraries and Documentation.
Includes good links to other Indian library websites
(London)
Manila, Philippines
Asian Studies Research Collection (London) for UK government records
link to South Asian collections
(London)
(in Cambridge University Library)
(London)
(a collaborative effort to compile a guide to South Asian libraries and archives for academics and researchers in the humanities and social sciences). Please contribute to the wiki.
South/Southeast Asia Library. University of Berkeley.
Librarian's favorites
Provides access to architectural images from South and Southeast Asia, particularly religious architecture - shrines, temples, monasteries. Link for University of Cambridge access; Raven password required off campus.
An invaluable reference resource, indexing articles, book chapters and conference proceedings from 1971 - present. Especially good coverage for the arts & humanities.
An amazing resource containing nearly all of Tagore's writings in Bengali and English. The website can be navigated in English, Bengali and Hindi, and the search engine allows you to locate any word or phrase used in his works.
Portal to multimedia anthropological information from the Himalayan region. Project based at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge.
University of Cambridge members are recommended to use this ejournal portal maintained by the University Library to link to full text electronic journals. Enter the journal title. Then click on a supplier's link immediately below the journal title, taking note of the date range available.
(Select: Ethnographic video online Volume 1. Raven password required off campus). Access to over 800 videos, including field recordings, interviews, performances, documentaries and animations. Films include transcripts and thumbnails. Transcripts are searchable. Alternatively browse by geographic location, then select films by country and/or cultural group.
University of Cambridge access; Raven password required off campus. Select Index Islamicus from list of databases. Coverage: books, articles and reviews on Islam and the Muslim world. Includes publications in European languages relating to all aspects of Islam and the lives of Muslims, past and present in countries in which Muslims are a majority of the population, as well as Muslim minorities elsewhere. Pre-Islamic Arabian background is included, as well as most aspects of the history and languages of the pre-and non-Muslim Turkic peoples.
enables you to search historic English-language newspapers from Singapore and Malaya, 1831-2009, in the National Library of Singapore. It links to full-text in many cases, but excludes articles from third-party news sources (such as Reuters, AFP and AP) published during the last 70 years, plus Straits Times articles published after 1989.
South Asia Archive and Library Group blog - keep abreast of events and news relating South Asian collections.
News and information from libraries and archives about Southeast Asian collections.
(1838-2003) incorporating the Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce (1839-1859) and Bombay Times and Standard (1860-1861), as well as the Times of India (1861-2003). Select Times of India (ProQuest) for University of Cambridge access; Raven password required off campus.
South Asia Book Dealers and Publishers
- Foreign Boo Dealers Directory (ALCTS).
- South/Southeast Asia Library—South Asia Resources.
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Michael Dowling, Director, , inside U.S inside U.S. (800) 545-2433, ext. 3200, outside U.S. 312-280-3200, Fax: (312) 280-4392, mdowling@ala.org
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