LIBRARY OF CONGRESS JAKARTA
About Library of Congress Jakarta
In 1963, the Library of Congress office in Jakarta was opened. Today, Jakarta serves as the regional center for Southeast Asia and has offices in Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, and Rangoon. There are also collection arrangements for Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Singapore, Vietnam and Timor Leste (East Timor). Over 2,000,000 pieces of research material have been acquired for the Library of Congress and the Cooperative Acquisitions Program for Southeast Asia (CAPSEA) participants. The office acquires, catalogs, and preserves publications from this region, including electronic resources. The offices provide assistance for the US Congress, particularly the Congressional Research Service (CRS) and news updates to relevant foreign affairs staff (SFRC and HFAC), Department of State and on occasion provides reference and assistance to program participants.The Library of Congress Jakarta is one of six overseas offices administered by the African/Asian Acquisitions and Overseas Operations Division (OvOp) of the Library of Congress (LC) The staff acquire, catalog, preserve, and distribute library and research materials from countries where such materials are essentially unavailable through conventional acquisitions methods. Jakarta also provides to selective staff of the Congress, Congressional Research Service, and other U.S. government staff current regional information. This website is primarily to support the participants in the Southeast Asian Cooperative Acquisitions Program (CAPSEA).
The Library of Congress Jakarta collects a wide range of analog and digital materials from Southeast Asia. Some of the materials collected include monographs, maps, non-print materials, sound recordings, videos, pamphlets, magazines, newspapers, gazettes, and electronic media. The office has also started collecting grey literature documenting the growth of civil societies, local languages, religion, environment and works about the Chinese in Southeast Asia. The office also selectively archives digital data from the region's national elections.
Cooperative Acquisitions Program (CAPSEA)
Library of Congress Jakarta coordinates the Cooperative Acquisitions Program (CAPSEA) and manages acquiring materials from the following countries: Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor Leste, and Vietnam. The goal of the CAPSEA legislative mandated cost recovery program is to provide selectively valuable research analog and digital materials to participating academic institutions and public libraries on a cost-recovery basis.We collect and provide bibliographic control materials in more than ten major languages about many different topics. The topics range from education, religion, anthropology, sociology, economics, government and politics, history and current events, geography and the environment, science and technology, literature, medicine, agriculture, to law.
We welcome new CAPSEA participants worldwide. For further information including joining the cost-recovery CAPSEA program please contact :
Library of Congress Jakarta
U.S. Embassy Jakarta
Jl. Merdeka Selatan 3-5 Jakarta 10110, Indonesia
Participants Section
Library of Congress
American Institute for Indonesian Studies
Arizona State University
Center for Research Libraries
Center for Southeast Asian Studies Kyoto University
Columbia University
Cornell University Echols Collection
Harvard Law School
Harvard University
Harvard University, Fine Arts Library
Indiana University
Institute Foreign Language Center
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies - Yusof Ishak Institute
Leiden University Libraries
McGill University
Michigan State University Libraries
Murdoch University
American Institute for Indonesian Studies
Arizona State University
Center for Research Libraries
Center for Southeast Asian Studies Kyoto University
Columbia University
Cornell University Echols Collection
Harvard Law School
Harvard University
Harvard University, Fine Arts Library
Indiana University
Institute Foreign Language Center
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies - Yusof Ishak Institute
Leiden University Libraries
McGill University
Michigan State University Libraries
Murdoch University
National Agricultural Library
National Diet Library
National Library Board, Singapore
National Library of Australia
National Library of Medicine
Northern Illinois University
Northwestern University Library
Ohio University
Open Source Center
Pennsylvania State University
Royal Ontario Museum
Temple University
University of British Columbia
University of California Berkeley School of Law
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Irvine
University of California, Los Angeles
National Diet Library
National Library Board, Singapore
National Library of Australia
National Library of Medicine
Northern Illinois University
Northwestern University Library
Ohio University
Open Source Center
Pennsylvania State University
Royal Ontario Museum
Temple University
University of British Columbia
University of California Berkeley School of Law
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Irvine
University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Los Angeles, Diaspora
University of California, Riverside
University of Hawaii
University of Iowa Law Library
University of Iowa Libraries
University of Michigan
University of Minnesota
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
University of Pennsylvania
University of Toronto Libraries
University of Washington
University of Wisconsin Law School
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Yale Divinity School
Yale University
University of California, Riverside
University of Hawaii
University of Iowa Law Library
University of Iowa Libraries
University of Michigan
University of Minnesota
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
University of Pennsylvania
University of Toronto Libraries
University of Washington
University of Wisconsin Law School
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Yale Divinity School
Yale University