10 Jun 2009

Library of Congress, Overseas Office, South East Asia Region
Library of Congress - Jakarta, U.S. Embassy, Jakarta, Indonesia
Self-description:
"The Library of Congress Office in Jakarta is one of six overseas offices administered by the African/Asian Acquisitions and Overseas Operations Division of the Library of Congress. The staff acquire, catalog, preserve, and distribute library and research materials from countries where such materials are essentially unavailable through conventional acquisitions methods and provide assistance to the US congress. This Website is primarily for the use of the participants in the South East Asian Cooperative Acquisitions Program (CAPSEA). We welcome new participants worldwide."
Site contents:
* About the Office;
* Addresses;
* Current News;
* Annual Reports;
* Common Abbreviations;
* Trip Reports;
* FAQ;
* Related Resources (Exchange Program, Preservation Program, Productions Statistics, South East Asia Serials List - by country - all participants) * Library Projects (LC Southeast Asia Blog [http://www.locjkt.or.id/application/blog/Main.asp], LC Overseas Chinese in South East Asia Blog [http://www.locjkt.or.id/application/chinese_blog/Default.asp], Parliament Library Projects (Timor) [http://www.locjkt.or.id/Timor/Projects/parliament_library_project.asp]);
* Participants Section [50 institutions in the US and worldwide]
* Cooperative Acquisitions Programs (CAPSEA) for Indonesia, Singapore, Timor Leste,Vietnam, Chinese in ASEAN countries, and Burma. (Cost Estimates for the Cooperative Acquisitions Program, Digitized Table of Contents, How the Cooperative Acquisitions Programs Works, Inquiries About the Program, List of Participating Libraries, Schedule of Sending Circular Letter to CAPSEA for FY 2009, Selected Serials, Standard Abbreviations in Various Languages, Timor Electronic Resources);
* Links To Other South East Asia Materials Web Sites (ASEAN Secretariat, Asia Matters for America CORMOSEA Website, CORMOSEA Bulletin, Library of Congress, Asian Reading Room, National Library of Australia, Asian Collections, South East Asia Microfom (SEAM) Project, SEADL Project, South East Asia Guide, Dr. Shao You-Bao Overseas Chinese Documentation and Research Center, World Confederation of Institutes and Libraries on Chinese Overseas Studies, WCILCOS New Publications (outside Southeast Asia)).
URL http://www.locjkt.or.id/
Link reported by: William P Tuchrello (wtuc--at--loc.gov), forwarded by h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.locjkt.or.id/
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info./ Study/ News
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Library
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 100