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21As a research resource base, we promote the activities to compile research materials and information on languages and cultures of Asia and Africa for making them available for studies, and to share them internationally.■Information Resources Center (IRC-ILCAA) processes information resources such as linguistic texts and sound data of languages, images, maps, records of eld research, and publicizes them in the form of databases, archives, electronic dictionaries, linguistic maps with a view to develop inter-institutional and international academic exchange. →p.22■The academic base ‘Grammatological Informatics based on the Corpora of Asian Scripts’ (GICAS) builds electronic corpora of written materials around Asia, leading to the emergence of a new academic sphere ‘Grammatological Informatics’ based on the corpora, and aims to play the role of an internationally accessible reference-center of scripts and characters. →p.23■The Institute’s library holds materials such as books, magazines, documents, maps acquired from the eldwork, microlms and donated personal collections of several pioneers of Asian and African studies, indispensable for the study and research of languages and cultures of Asia and Africa. →p.24■Phonetics laboratory has the library of speech and language materials obtained through eld studies, as well as the equipment for recording and analysis of speech sounds. →p.24