Humanities and Social Sciences Library > Collections & Reading Rooms > The Asian and Middle Eastern Division

Instructional Support Level Collections

Subjects collected at the Instructional Support Level (I) are intended to support undergraduate and graduate instruction and independent study. The collections at this level include core grammars and dictionaries, reference books, scholarly journals, scholarly monographs, collections of major authors, and bibliographic aids. Intended users include undergraduate and graduate students, fluent readers of a given Oriental language, and well informed members of the general public.

Middle East Section

• Turkish Language and Literature
• Central Asian Turkic Languages and Literatures
• Armenian Language and Literature
• Georgian Language and Literature
• The Oriental Christian Churches (Coptic, Ethiopic, Syriac, Armenian, Georgian)

South Asia Section

• Hindi Language and Literature
• Kannada Language and Literature
• Malayalam Language and Literature
• Telugu Language and Literature
• Pali Language and Literature
• Islam in South Asia
• Traditional Medicine (Ayurveda, etc.)

East Asia Section

• Japanese Language and Literature
• Chinese Language and Literature
• Korean Language and Literature
• Confucianism
• Taoism
• Shintoism
• The Archaeology of China
• Japanese Theater
• Scholarly Biography of Major Figures
• Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Folklore
• Traditional Medicine