South/Southeast Asia Library (S/SEAL)

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/SSEAL/

24 Jun 2010

University of California Berkeley Library, Berkeley, CA, USA

Self-description:
"The South/Southeast Asia Library (S/SEAL) is the Berkeley campus library reference center for South and Southeast Asian social sciences and humanities. SSEAL includes an extensive reference collection of bibliographies, indexes, dictionaries, atlases, directories, statistical annuals and core works, as well as current issues of high-use periodicals. The rest of the South Asia and Southeast Asia collection, over 600,000 titles, is housed in the Main Stacks and the subject specialty libraries on the Berkeley campus. South Asian Resources include material from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Southeast Asian Resources include material from Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar/Burma, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam."

Site contents:
* SOUTH/SOUTHEAST ASIA LIBRARY HOME -
# About, # Hours, # Reference, # Staff, # What's New;

* SOUTH ASIA RESOURCES -
# Online Resources (UCB's database of South Asia internet resources: all, book dealers, online texts, online journals, web sites),
# Collections, New Acquisitions (South Asia Collections, New Acquisitions, Newspapers Currently Received),
# Bibliographies & Webliographies (Afghanistan and the US, Basic Reference Sources , Conflict over Kashmir, Environmentalism in South Asia, Human Rights in South Asia, Labor in South Asia, Nuclear Issues in India & Pakistan, Social Movements in South Asia, South Asia Videography, South Asian Diaspora Bibliographies, South Asian History, South Asian R5A, South Asian R5B, South Asian 124, South Asian 140C/Religious Studies 165C, South Asian Women's Studies, Subaltern Studies),
# Article Databases,
# South Asian Diaspora (Archive of the South Asian Diaspora, Bibliographic Guides, Diaspora Projects Database, Online Archival Materials, South Asians in North America Collection),
# South Asian Studies at Berkeley;

* SOUTHEAST ASIA ONLINE RESOURCES -
# Collections & New Acquisitions (New Acquisitions, Microforms, Newspapers, Journals, Special Collections, Subjects and Languages),
# Article Databases,
# Bibliographic Guides (Directory of International and Area Studies, Librarians at UCB, International Directory of SEA Librarians, Multi-Media Resources, Nguyen Trai's Life & Works : A Selected Bibliography, Permanent Reserve, SEA 10A&B Research Guide, Simmons College Vietnamese Alumni Directory, Reference Sources, Theses & Dissertations, Video Resources, Women Studies),
# Catalogs and Indexes (Southeast Asia Reference Tools, Article Indexes/Databases, UC Berkeley's Southeast Dissertations, Guide to Library Catalogs),
# Southeast Asia Studies at Berkeley;

* SPECIAL FEATURES -
# Chinese Overseas: Challenges & Contributions, # Delicate Blossoms and Twining Vines: Botanical Themes in South Asian Art, # Echoes of Freedom: South Asian Pioneers in California, 1899-1965, # A Hundred Harvests: Asian Studies at UCB, # The Power of Patterns: Double Ikat for Textile Exchange in India & Indonesia; # Silicon Raj: Making a Difference to America's Future # Vietnam: Journey of the Heart, 1985-2000;

* LIBRARY CATALOGS -
UCB: OskiCat, All UC: Melvyl, UCB: all electronic resources.

URL http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/SSEAL/

Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/SSEAL/

Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Online Guide / Study / Corporate info.
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Library
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000
- under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 1,000

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