Chinese Library, National University of Singapore

The Chinese Library, established in 1953, is one of the six Special Libraries within the National University of Singapore Library System.

The Library collects mainly Chinese books and research materials on Chinese studies. Recently the scope of the collection was extended to include Chinese law, business administration, and management. The present collection has over 420,000 volumes, with 2,630 journal titles. It is particularly rich in the classics and their commentaries, bibliographies, archaeology, philosophy, language and literature. Rare editions hand-written or printed in the Ming (1365–1644) and Qing (1644–1912) dynasties, academic and scholarly periodicals published in the early Republican period (after 1911), as well as works on Buddhism are special features of the collection.

Chinese materials on Southeast Asia are also collected extensively. Local newspapers that were published in the nineteenth century, and books on the fine arts and the Chinese in Southeast Asia comprise a sizeable portion of the collection.

In view of increasing research needs, the Chinese Library recently extended its scope of the Chinese in Southeast Asia to include material on Chinese Overseas world-wide. A special scoping of Chinese Overseas material is established in LINC, the NUS Library integrated catalogue. This special feature of scoped bibliographic information on Chinese Overseas material is available in the entire NUS Library System. More than 8,000 titles are now available for access through http://linc.nus.edu.sg/search, with 6,000 titles comprising material in Chinese. The others are in English, Japanese, Malay, German, and French.

Various other Chinese Library search sites include: Chinese Library Homepage http://www.lib.nus.edu.sg/chz Chinese Overseas Studies Homepage http://www.lib.nus.edu.sg/chz/chineseoverseas

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