JSIS 483/HSTAS 490 - Winter 2018: Find Books

Asian History Final Research Project

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OCLC WorldCat

OCLC Worldcat
A database of catalog records from most U.S. libraries, many European libraries, and Asian libraries. Titles owned by the University of Washington display first on the hit list, followed by holdings from Summit, a consortium of libraries in Washington and Oregon. Books borrowed from Summit libraries usually arrive within three days. Holdings by all other libraries come last and inter-library loan generally takes about ten days.

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Tips for finding books about and from Southeast Asia in the UW Catalog

Tips for Using the UW Catalog

Non Roman Script Materials

The UW Catalog does not represent non-roman scripts, such as Khmer or Burmese. These languages are transliterated into roman alphabet. We use the Library of Congress Transliteration Tables to represent these languages. You need to become familiar with this table in order to search the catalog in Thai, Burmese or Khmer. Note that you do not have to input the diacritic marks to search in the catalog.

Note on Vietnamese Language

Vietnamese language may display imperfectly in the catalog. You can search using Vietnamese diacritics using Unicode inputting, but the catalog will still find every variant of the word you are searching, regardless of diacritics. Often this means that you have to qualify your search by using more than one term.