William Sage Collection Mimijac Palgen Cambodian Photographic Collection

The Arizona State University Libraries currently maintain an extensive Southeast Asia collection both in western languages and in the languages of Southeast Asia.  Intensive collection development began in 1989 with the collection being built to support university and non-campus community interests in Southeast Asia and Southeast Asian area studies.  The focus of collection development is on the curriculum and research needs of the Program for Southeast Asian Studies at Arizona State University.  These collections support undergraduate studies in Southeast Asian languages, cultures, history, geography, political science and religion as well as working to satisfy the demands of faculty and graduate student research, teaching and publication.  The Southeast Asian language portion of the collection is housed on the lower level (map/tour) of Charles Trumbull Hayden Library adjacent to the East Asian Collection.  The collection also includes western language material shelved throughout the University Libraries' system, and a serial collection housed in Current Periodicals.

The Southeast Asia Bibliographer collects library material and helps provide public access or service to information, primarily in western languages and in the Southeast Asian languages taught at the University.  These languages are Thai, Vietnamese, and Indonesian.  Other Southeast Asian languages represented in the Libraries' collection on a smaller scale are Lao, Khmer, Burmese, Hmong, and Tagalog.  The Special Collections Library, also on the second floor of Hayden Library houses several special collections dealing with Southeast Asia, including the Agnese Nelms Haury Collection on Burma, the William Sage Collection on Laos, and the Mimijac Palgen Cambodian Photograph Collection.  Included in the Museum of Anthropology collections is William Sage's collection of ethnographic artifacts collected in Laos during his years working in that country.

The Arizona State University Libraries work cooperatively with other Southeast Asian library collections in the United States through CORMOSEA, the professional organization for Southeast Asian Studies librarians, and the Southeast Asia Microform Project of the Center for Research Libraries.  The Libraries are also engaged in the cooperative exchange of duplicate Southeast Asian library materials with other university libraries.