Stacks are open to all users. A large part of the collection may be borrowed for use outside of the Library with a borrower's card or through interlibrary loan. All books are checked out at the main circulation desk. Both provide author, title, and subject access to the content of the East Asian Collection. The online catalog includes materials cataloged since 1989, while the old catalog includes materials cataloged before 1980, and the Non-roman catalog holds records for materials cataloged from 1980 to the present.
All current serials are in the online catalog with summary holdings.
They can be searched from any terminal within the Perkins system by using romanized entries. Because tapes for records with CJK vernacular data are shared by the two bibliographic systems, the two databases are practically identical for materials written in Chinese, Japanese or Korean. To retrieve catalog records you need to use the correct Romanization. UCLA maintains romanization tables for Chinese, Japanese and Korean on the web.