• About the Reading Room
• Asian Division Teams and their Collections
• China/Mongolia Team
• Japan Team
• Korea Team
• South Asia Team
• Southeast Asia Team


• Search Our Catalogs
• LC Calendar of Events
• Asian Division Friends Society
• Webcasts of Past Asian Events

Using the Reading Room:

• Library of Congress Security
• Research Orientation to LC
• About the Visitor's Center
• Copies (Photoduplication)
• Interlibrary Loan
  
• Policy: Access to Rare Materials
  
• Email asianrequest@loc.gov to have your materials retrieved before you get to the Asian Reading Room

Hours:
Weekdays & Sat.: 8:30am to 5:00pm
Closed Sunday & Federal Holidays

Digital Projects:

• Korean Bibliography
  NEW Soviet-Korean Bibliography
• Philippine Bibliography
• Portals to the World
• Asian Portals
• Naxi Manuscript Collection

Databases:

• LC Subscription Databases
• Chinese e-resources
• Korean Serial Database

• Annotated catalog on
  Robert Morrison
• Asian Collections:
  2007 Illustrated Guide NEW
• A World of Books
• Indonesian Bibliography
• Romanization Tables

Ask a Librarian
Want to send the reference staff a question about the Library's Asian Collections.

The Asian Reading Room is the primary public access point for researchers seeking to use the Asian collections of the Library of Congress in the many languages of Asia. The reading room covers the area from the South Asian subcontinent and Southeast Asia to China, Japan, Korea, and Mongolia. With over 2.8 million books, periodicals and newspapers, a large number of manuscripts, and electronic media, the collections are the most comprehensive sources of Asian language materials outside of Asia. Area Specialists and Reference Librarians provide in-depth reference assistance on questions concerning Asia. Western language materials about Asia are part of the general collection but can be requested in either the Asian Reading Room or the Main Reading Room.