09 Apr 2009

Aceh Books Online
www.acehbooks.org, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Supplied note:
"Aceh Digital Library now Online! The devastating tsunami that struck Aceh on 26 December 2004 caused thousands of victims but also destroyed important libraries in Banda Aceh. The Royal Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) initiated a project to digitize a major part of the literature on Aceh that is kept in the KITLV Library. The Dutch Ministry of Education generously financed this project and the Royal Library of the Netherlands supervised the digitization process.
[...]
The titles listed are books about Aceh in a variety of languages such as Indonesian, Acehnese, English, Dutch, as well as other European languages. At present 656 files are available in digital form in pdf format on the website. More titles are to follow in the course of 2009. - gvk."
Site contents:
* [Browse books in the] Index; * Search Index (Search by Title, Author, Keywords, Free Search); * Contact Us
[A tri-lingual (IN, EN, NL) site, with books in a PDF format in the language of the original - ed.]
URL http://www.acehbooks.org
Link reported by: Gerry van Klinken (gvanklinken--at--gmail.com), forwarded by h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Library
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30