Reader Services

Reader Services

1.Reading Cubicles:

Reading Room: 48 cubicles

2.Reader Access

Anyone with a library card issued by the National Central Library can use the library.

3. Reading Room Procedures

  1. Readers wishing to use the Center for Chinese Studies Reading Room must exchange their library card for a numbered tile on entering. The numbered tile is to be returned upon leaving the Reading Room.
  2. Books in the open stacks may be accessed freely. Readers are asked to return materials to their proper place or leave them on a reading room desk when they are done.
  3. Books may not be removed from the Reading Room. Two copiers are in the room for making photocopies.

4. Access to Closed Stacks

  1. Access Hours: Tuesday through Sunday, 9-11:30 AM and 1:30-4:30 PM
  2. Return Time: Books must be returned to the stacks by 4:50 PM on the same day.
  3. Procedures: To check out materials, readers should locate the titles they want, fill out a check-out form and give it along with their numbered tile to a staff member.

5. Collections

  1. Post-1949 Chinese Studies Publications from Mainland China
    We currently have over 80,000 books and 1,500 different journals and newspapers published in Mainland China on literature, history, philosophy, art, archeology and other subjects in the humanities as well.
  2. Chinese Texts in Foreign Collections
    This collection of rare Chinese works in foreign collections includes originals and photo-reproductions of ancient texts including Confucian classics, historical materials, Ming dynasty government documents and memorials to emperors, Ming and Qing dynasty gazetteers and Ming dynasty literary works.
  3. Doctoral Dissertations in Western Languages
    This collection currently contains around 10,000 dissertations related to Chinese studies from universities in the US, Canada and the Netherlands.
  4. Data Retrieval Resources
    We provide the following electronic resources: Database of the Center for Chinese Studies Collection, Foreign Sinologists' Dissertation Abstract Database, Ming Literary Collection Union Catalog and Title Index Database, the Chinese Academic Journal, Scripta Sinica, Siku Quanshu, Newspaper & Periodical Full Text and Index CD-ROM Database, and the Chinese-language Social Sciences Newspapers and Periodicals Database. 6. Reproduction Services