Summary of Activities at the Library of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies Kyoto University

Brief Description of CSEAS Lib Year of Foundation: 1965

SEA Language Collections Including Special Collections

Charas Collection (90,000 titles on Thailand) Foronda Collection (7,000 titles on Philippine) Ocampo Collection (1,000 titles on Philippine)

Current Holdings: 200,000 Items Including Approximately 20,000 microform Approximately 28,000Maps Approximately 3,500 Satellite Images

Recent Bibliographic Series

1. Selected Annotated Bibliography on Books and Other Research Materials on Myanmar Agriculture. Compiled by Wynn Lei Lei Than (2005) [Currently distributed in print format, but will be uploaded to the web site]

2. Articles of Thai Cremation Books in the Center for Southeast Asian Studies Library, Kyoto University. Compiled by Nawarat Panyangam. (2006) [Currently distributed in print and CD format]

3. Bibliographies on Microforms of Periodicals at the CSEAS Library (Ongoing)

4. Bibliographies on the South Vietnam Periodicals at the CSEAS Library (Ongoing)

Digital Collection of three Newspapers published in Thailand

during the World War II

(Collaborative work with the Kyoto University Main Library) (2005)

Image Index (Thai Newspaper)

Thai Database of Three Seal Law and Palm Leaf Text (2005)

Search Screen (Three Seal Law)

Agro-SEAD (Agro-SouthEast Asian Database) (2005)

Country Data RangeNumber of

Tables

Number of Image Files

Cambodia

1980-2002 308 0

Laos 1801-2003 2874 0

Myanmar 1900-2000 471 9

Thailand 1974-2001 73 0

Vietnam 1897-1999 158 92

Search Screen (Angro-SEAD)

Search Result (Angro-SEAD)

Recent Move in Japanese Universities on Creation of Repository System

Repository System →Good way to preserve both

publications and gray literature such as proposals, syllabus, reports, and etc.

→Facilitate information sharing between repository systems.

No. of Repository Systems from Asia in “Registry of Open Access Repositories”

Cambodia 5

China 6Japan 18India 22Philippines 1Singapore 2South Korea 1Indonesia 1Taiwan 1

Top 5USA

199UK 78Germany 66France 32Australia 28

Recommendations

Further discussion by the forms of “Local information”

Creation of a repository system for the printed format “local information”

Integration of the knowledge to the local information specialist training class

Unity within the Diversity: Importance of Collection Building

Diversity We can use this NW to spread

responsibility to build unique local collections.

Unity We can use this NW to make it possible to

share the information we have collected.