Activities
Our library has focused on satisfying scholars’ individual demands by collecting materials and resources in Southeast Asia and its surrounding regions. The library also joins in scholars’ activities including their research projects.
Library Collection Introduction
We have published a column “Library Collection” in CSEAS (Center for Southeast Asian Studies) NEWSLETTER.
●2014, No.69, Appraising the Significance of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies’ (CSEAS) Library Collection for Philippine Studies
Nobutaka Suzuki
●2014, No.70, Appraising the Research Value of the Cambodian Official Gazettes
Hideo Sasagawa
●2015, No.71, Portrait of a Dragon Lady in a Vietnamese Gazette
Naohiro Kitazawa
●2015, No.72, Modern Islamic Book Collection in Indonesian Language
Ken Miichi
●2016, No.74, In Memory of Pak Igarashi Tadataka (1945–2014)
Yoshifumi Azuma
●2018, No.02, インドネシア、バリ島ブサキ寺院における大儀礼とヒンドゥーの歴史性
Yasuyuki Nagafuchi
●018, No.02, フォロンダ・コレクション中のキリスト教およびスペイン語関係資料について
Yuki Moriwaki
●2019, No.77, The Grand Rituals at Besakih Temple in Bali and the Historical Moment of Hinduism in Indonesia
Yasuyuki Nagafuchi
●2019, No.77, Materials on Christianity and Spanish Documents in the Foronda Collection
Yuki Moriwaki
●2019, No.03, 故人の人生：日本におけるタイ研究の歴史的資料としてのチャラット・コレクション
Pattarat Phantprasit
●2020, No.78, The Charas Collection Cremation Books as Sources for Thai History
Pattarat Phantprasit
●2021, No.05, 華字紙資料から見る東南アジア
Gen Shibayama
●2022, No.80, Seeing Southeast Asia through Chinese-Language Newspapers
Gen Shibayama
●2022, No.06, 出版物から読み解くシャンの表象 ―図書館書誌情報を使って出版状況を把握する試み―
Taihei Kikuchi
●2023, No.81, Shans in Publications: Using Library Bibliographic Information as a Tool of Searching Shan Representations, Their Ethnic Consciousness and the Current Situation Surrounding Shan Language
Taihei Kikuchi
●2024, No.81, Academic Acts of Survival Live on through the CSEAS Library Collection: Materials from the Center for Documentation and Research on Khmer Civilization (CEDORECK)
Atsushi Yoshida
●2024, No.82, The Region-bridging Language: Arabic Materials at the CSEAS Library
Rikuo Hara
●2025, No.82, Professor Yoneo Ishii Library Collection: Studying Asian and Muslim Materials of a Southeast Asianist (Part I)
Majid Daneshgar
●2025, No.82, Professor Yoneo Ishii Library Collection (Part II): A Cardboard Scroll Tube Containing Muslim and non-Muslim Burmese Materials
Majid Daneshgar
Interactions with Domestic and International Libraries
Our library has several invitation programs which enables to strengthen its tie with both domestic and international research libraries. Among the programs, the Visiting Research Fellowship has a long history for inviting librarians from Southeast Asia which provides not only academic support for librarians, but also promotes interactions among libraries. In recent years, the library has been supported by JST Sakura Science Program which enables to provide short-term training program for librarians from Southeast Asia.
●JST Sakura Science Exchange Program
Collection Building
Our library builds collections in order to meet various scholars’ interests with applying the MEXT principle for sharing resources and accelerating joint research for Southeast Asian studies as well as Kyoto University’s principle for building library collections.
●IPCR:“International Program of Southeast Asian Collaborative Research”
Southeast Asian Periodicals Database
“Southeast Asian Periodicals Database” provides information for the periodicals published in Southeast Asia owned by domestic libraries in Japan. As a developed version of this database, “Southeast Asian Periodicals Database: Three Countries in Indochina” maintains the resource information of local periodicals owned by the libraries of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.
●Southeast Asian Periodicals Database
Establishment of CSEAS Library Fund
“CSEAS Library Fund” was established within the Kyoto University Found in order to share the library, which is a historical building, and valuable historical materials of Southeast Asia for the future.
●Information of CSEAS Library Fund
Please see the Kyoto University Fund project page below for information on how to make a donation.
●Kyoto University Fund “CSEAS Library Fund” project page
○Related article
・Ennyu, Tomohito. 2025. Siamese Royalty Who Stayed in Kyoto During the Meiji, Taisho, and Pre-WWII Showa Periods : Where They Visited and What They Did “Bulletin of Nakamura Gakuen University and Nakamura Gakuen University Junior College” 57: 59-69.
Others
●Exhibition at Library Fair and Forum
Our library has introduced its activities including research projects by providing poster session at Library Fair and Forum.
●Study Seminar for Multilingual Bibliography
Our library organizes study seminars for bibliography of Asian resources with other domestic libraries which concentrate on Asian studies.
●Kyoto Modern Architecture Festival
Open to the public of CSEAS Library (Former Kyoto Orimono Kabushiki Kaisha Head Office Office Building)
・Saturday, 4 November, 2023
・Saturday, 2 November, 2024
●Journals from the Turbulent Times of Southeast Asia
CSEAS Library and Institute of Developing Economies (IDE) Library jointly held an exhibition and lecture.