Library

图书设备(Library Facilities)

The Department of Chinese Studies is served by the Chinese Library in the University’s Central Library with 479,209 volumes of Chinese books and bound materials, together with subscriptions to 3,664 Chinese periodicals and 45 Chinese newspapers published in different parts of the world. The library has a good collection of books on the Chinese classics, classical literature, modern literature, linguistics, history and philosophy. It also has a collection of about 1000 periodicals published during the May Fourth period in China, as well as in the early years of? Singapore and Malaysia. Some of them are rare, such as the Lat Pau (1887-1932), the Sing Po (1890-1898), the Penang Sin Poe (1895-1941) and the Thien Nan Shin Po (1898-1905). Microfilms of 14 Chinese newspapers and periodicals currently published in Southeast Asia are available in the Library. It is also equipped with microfilms of the Stein collection of Tun-huang manuscripts in the British Museum and of rare books in the former Beijing National Library.

The Chinese union cataloguing, circulation, acquisitions, and serial subsystem in the Chinese Library are all computerised. There are 281,777 records in the Chinese union catalog under the University Central Library’s LINC system, including the collections of the former Nanyang University and University of Singapore as well as the recent acquisitions to the library of the NUS, available for the public to search through OPAC.

Apart from some Japanese collection of books and periodicals on Chinese Studies, the Chinese Library is further supplemented by the extensive English collection of books and bound materials on China in the Central Library which is fully computerised, with online search service and CD-ROM service.

In addition, there is a Departmental Resource Room to serve as a reference library for staff.? Its main feature is the collection of 724 Academic Exercises written by Honours students and 288 dissertations and theses submitted by postgraduate students for their MA and Ph.D degrees.

Chinese Library Website
http://www.lib.nus.edu.sg/chb/index.htm

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