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The Eisenhower Library has a wide variety of materials that cover many subject areas about East Asia and the wider Asian region, including Southeast Asia and South Asia. The Library also is building up its resources in the East Asian languages:Chinese, Japanese and Korean.You will find materials in all languages kept together by subject area, or call number. For example, works by novelist Natsume Soseki in both Japanese and English will be side by side. Consider these suggestions on searching the JHU Libraries Catalog.You can apply the same search strategies for other catalogs (such as Library of Congress) or comprehensive catalogs (such as the WorldCat and RLIN databases). - Keyword or Subject searching is a good way to get comprehensive lists (all languages), combine specific terms (such as Ming, Meiji, Korean, Korea, Southeast Asia, seiji, she hui) and general terms (such as dictionary, bibliography, guide, index, handbook, documents, sources)
- Use subject headings to focus your search: Korea--Politics and government, Politics and government--[country]--Sources, Indonesia--Social conditions (Non-English language books are also assigned these English language subject headings).
- While you are viewing a specific record,you can get a list of "other titles on the same topic" by clicking on a highlighted subject term.
- Searching under a) the series field or b) a corporate name can give you lists of relevant titles. Examples: a)Politics in Asia b) Asiatic Society of Japan
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- Remember, the online catalogs and databases are looking for a match of what you type in; they cannot interpret "what you really mean"
- Word division is different for Chinese, and for Japanese and Korean. For Chinese, type in words as separate characters: jingji, she hui xue (Exceptions: geographic names and personal names: Guangdong, ZhouEnlai, Kangxi) For Japanese and Korean, compound words are one character string: keizai, shakaigaku hanguk, chido.
- No need to type in apostrophes when searching: han'guk, hanguk. (You can refer to dictionaries for romanization systems. If you do frequent searching, you might photocopy pages such as pinyin to Wade-Giles conversion, or print the conversion charts. See Tips on Romanization.)
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One way to look for materials is by browsing the stacks (keep in mind that many other materials are at the Libraries Service Center). Each floor also has a "map" for the call numbers. To direct you to the range of call number classifications for some popular subject areas:
History: China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, DS700; Japan, DS800; Korea, DS900; Southeast Asian countries, DS600
Anthropology, Ethnology: GN620; GN630
Family: HQ680; HQ760; HQ790
Social History/Conditions: HN600; HN700
Urban & Rural Sociology: HT100; HT200; HT300; HT400
Political Science: China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, JQ1500; Japan, JQ1600; Korea,J Q1700
Language and Literature: Two locations: PXand Blue Label PL, Japanese, PX 500-899; PL700-899; Korean, PX900; PL900
Chinese language & linguistics: PX1000; PL1000
Chinese literature: PX2100-3200; PL2250-3200
Other Asian, Southeast Asian languages & literatures: PX3300; PX3500-PX6000; PL3500-PL5100; PR9530
- Also look under these classifications in the General Reference collection on the M-Level of MSEL.
- Some bound journals can be found DS1 to DS3.
- Don't forget to examine the Quarto sections for all of the above classifications for the larger sized volumes.
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