WELCOME TO EAST ASIAN STUDIES LIBRARY
Welcome to the Library of the Department of East Asian Studies. The department's library, established in 1967, is equipped with modern technology to serve students and faculty. The knowledge hub of EAS offers comprehensive access to books and journals covering diverse disciplines. East Asian Studies Library is very unique in its collection specifically pertaining to Chinese, Japanese and Korean. The Library is accomplishing its task of reaching to a specialized academic community. The Library provides access to high quality electronic databases being made available through campus network (via DU eLibrary/ ONOS) to teachers, students and research scholars. Delhi University Library System (DULS) is subscribing a huge range of e-resources & e-books for the academicians & providing its access through DU eLibrary/ONOS. The Library also promotes Open Access to e-resources. The Department occasionally conducts Information Literacy Programs (ILP) for the benefit of students and researchers. The OPAC is also being strengthened. The Department is equipped with a state-of-the-art Language Lab, which has a rich collection of audio and video teaching materials. The Department of East Asian Studies is fully wi-fi enabled for all students, staff and faculty members.
LIBRARY COLLECTIONS
The Library holds an exclusive collection of material on East Asian Studies in English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages.
The Library collection is made of over 47,000 books, Journals in Print and E- form offering online access to many multidisciplinary journals on Area Studies.
The Library holds Thesis collection also. The Theses are kept in Central Library.
The exclusive text book collection is arranged alphabetically and is issued overnight.
Japanese Collection which is mostly built up by annual Book Support Programme by Organisations like Japan Foundation, Toshiba, IIIAS, The Netherlands etc. has about 10000 books and CD’s.
Chinese Collection is the oldest and includes books donated by the Government of PRC and it boasts of holding Classic Chinese as well as modern Chinese material.
Korean Collection has developed by the support of Korea Foundation, includes books and digital material.
