Welcome to the Library of the Department of East Asian Studies. The Department of East Asian Studies, established in 1964, has evolved into the Department of Chinese and Japanese Studies in 1969 and the Department of East Asian Studies in 2001. 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, journals, and dissertations covering diverse disciplines. 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 to teachers, students and research scholars. Some databases are also accessible through the UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium. The library also promotes open access to e-resources. The department occasionally conducts Information Literacy Programs (ILP) for the benefit of students and researchers.
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 Dissertations and 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.