Eastern Art Library
The Eastern Art Library is housed in the Sackler Library.
Opening hours and access arrangements are as for the Sackler Library.
Books in this collection may not be borrowed.
Basic directional enquiries should be made at the Floor 2 Help Desk (when open and at other times at the Main Help Desk).
Bibliographic enquiries and suggestions for purchase should be directed to:
Clare Hills-Nova - Art and Architecture Librarian: clare.hills-nova@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
The library (23,000 volumes approx., at June 2000) is designated the University's research library for this field as well as being the working library for the staff and graduate students of the Eastern Art Department of the Ashmolean Museum. The collection covers all aspects of oriental art, architecture and archaeology (except the pre-Islamic Near East which is the concern of the Griffith Institute Library on Floor 1 of the Sackler). Since July 1994, relevant material acquired in the Bodleian by legal deposit has been placed on its shelves.
The books are arranged firstly by area and then by subject according to a simple classification scheme devised for the collection. All holdings are recorded on SOLO. Chinese and Japanese language publications should be searched, in SOLO or Allegro, using original scripts.