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Library

About the Library

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In the Library, you can view valuable books, reference materials such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, and catalogs, large books, series, microfilms, and magazines from the ILCAA collection.

[ Opening Hour ]
Monday-Friday (9:30-17:00)

[ Location ]
First Floor of ILCAA

[ How to Enter ]
〇 For TUFS faculty members, students, staff, and emeritus professors including ILCAA members.
No prior contact is necessary. You can enter using your campus card, just like at the university library.

〇 For Fellows, Junior Fellows, and Collaborative Researchers
No prior contact is necessary. If you have a campus card (facility use card), you can enter by presenting it at the entrance gate.
If you do not have a campus card (facility use card), you can enter by filling out the designated form. Please bring an ID issued by your affiliated institution.

〇 For those affiliated with other universities or research institutions
For visits and browsing open-shelf materials only, no prior contact is necessary. Please bring an ID issued by your affiliated institution and fill out the designated form on the day of your visit.
If you wish to view specific materials, please contact us in advance. Kindly provide the following information via email:

  • Name
  • Affiliated academic institution
  • Date and time of visit
  • Contact information
  • Materials you plan to view (not required if undecided)
  • Whether you wish to make copies
  • Whether you wish to view microfilm materials
  • Whether you wish to use the TUFS Library
  • Additional remarks
    Contact: ILCAA Library
    Email: tosho-aa[at]tufs.ac.jp (please replace [at] with @)
    Tel / 042-330-5597

〇 For individuals not affiliated with the above categories
Prior contact is required. Visits without prior contact will not be permitted. Please provide the following information via email in advance:

  • Name
  • Date and time of visit
  • Contact information
  • Materials you plan to view (not required if undecided)
  • Whether you wish to make copies
  • Whether you wish to view microfilm materials
  • Whether you wish to use the TUFS Library
  • Additional remarks
    Contact: ILCAA Library
    Email: tosho-aa[at]tufs.ac.jp (please replace [at] with @)
    Tel / 042-330-5597

[ How to Browse ]
You are free to browse the materials available on the open shelves in the Library. For the use of valuable books, prior inquiry is required except for ILCAAmembers including fellows, junior fellows, and collaborative researchers. For details, please refer to [ILCAA Collection].

To search the online catalog of the ILCAA collection, please use the [TUFS OPAC]. The card catalog for books is located on the Stack Room Level 1 of the TUFS Library, and for magazines, it is in the ILCAA Library.

Additionally, general books and personal collections from the ILCAA collection are shelved on the first floor of the TUFS Library and can be used under the same conditions as the TUFS library's holdings.

About ILCAA Collection

In order to facilitate inter-university joint research, the Institute Library has been making every effort since its establishment in 1964 to collect materials and basic data indispensable for the study and research of languages and cultures of Asia and Africa. As of now, library holdings total 140,000 volumes, 1,800 titles of journals, 12,000 reels of microfilm, 70,000 sheets of microfiche, and other digitized materials (documents, maps, photographs, videos).

The library has holdings of several rare materials. Among the remarkable resources are: the Khmer script version of the Tripitaka (the Buddhist sacred texts). The original texts have been lost during the wars in Cambodia. However, reproductions were made from the ones in the Institute Library, and then donated to the cultural and educational institution and temples in Cambodia. These reproductions of the texts contributed to the revitalization of Cambodian culture. The library also possesses a valuable collection by the late Prof. Erin Asai (1895-1969), a renowned scholar of Austronesian studies. The collection, acquired in 1970, includes land contract documents, videos, photographs, lexicon, linguistic material, field notes on the indigenous people of Taiwan.

Among the other remarkable resources are:

  • A collection of theatrical posters in Ottoman period.
  • Description de l'Egypte ou Recueil des observations et des recherches, 2nd ed.
  • Views in Cairo, a collection of lithographs depicting Cairo in 19th century by Robert Hay.
  • 65 Iranian newspapers issued from the late 19th century to 1970.
  • Back numbers of the monthly Bengali literary journals published during the 19th and 20th centuries.
  • A set of pictures describing sugar manufacture of the Qing period.
  • A Picture book of people in Taiwan illustrating Taiwan folklore in Qing period.
  • The Mongolian Buddhism Texts of the Qing period
  • The Mongolian Bible (St. Petersburg, 1819)
  • The Records of the Manzhouguo (Manchukuo) Legation in Thailand
  • The Papers of Jisaku Shinoda, a Japanese colonial official in the pre-Second World War’s Korea
  • The Korea’s Joseon Dynasty documents (ex-Prof. Hiroyuki Miura Collection)
  • Qing Archival Documents

The Institute Library also houses personal collections of the following prominent linguists and historians:

Kengo Yamamoto (the Manchurian language), Takashiro Kobayashi (the Mongolian history), Shinji Maejima (the Islamic studies), Ioketek Ong (the Taiwanese language and culture).

Also, a part of the collection of Kazuo Otsuka (anthropology, Middle Eastern and Islamic studies) is included.

For further details, the latest information, and how to use materials at ILCAA, please see the following website:
https://wp.tufs.ac.jp/library/en/top-2/how-to-use/service/borrowing/ilcaa/

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