About the Southeast Asia Collection

The Collection includes materials on all the nations of Southeast Asia; the holdings are particularly strong on the countries of Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei and Indonesia. The Collection includes monographs, journals, newspapers and government documents totaling well over 110,000 titles. Some of the more specialized resources include:

• The Straits Settlements and British Military Administration records
• Indonesian imprints from the Japanese Occupation and Nationalists periods
• Modern monographs and periodicals selected from Cornell University Library's Echols Collection filmed by the IDC (Inter Documentation Company)
• Indonesian microfiche of the Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology (KITLV) in Leiden, The Netherlands
• United States State Department materials on Southeast Asia
• United States government documents on the Vietnamese Conflict.

The Southeast Asia Collection participates in a cooperative acquistion program administered by the Library of Congress. In addition to the countries noted above, Ohio University has collecting responsibility for the following areas in Indonesia: Bengkulu, Jambi, South Sumatra, East Java, Lampung, and Riau.