Dr Michael Dillon is the member of the Department of East Asian Studies staff who represents the Department's needs to the Library and authorises new purchases from the part of the bookfund dedicated to expediture on East Asian materials. In Durham the project work has started on 1 March 2000 and expected to run for 18 months. By the end of the project most of our Chinese language materials will have Chinese script catalogues and they will be incorporated into the UK Database of Chinese Research Materials which is based in Bodleian Library, Oxford. You can contact the Project superviser Mamtimyn Sunuodula or the Project Officer Zhu Hua for any further enquiries by e-mail or on extension number 3021. Library Catalogues for Chinese Language Materials Bodleian Library , Department of Oriental Books, Oxford University Online catalogues searchable in Chinese and Japanese, with Korean to be added in late 1998.
Korean software are necessary for reading and entering search queries.
Cambridge University Library About 40,000 records in romanisation only. Excludes analytic records for congshu etc. No. of records not known. Accessible via the NISS gateway , telnet only. Records for new books include Chinese characters.