Gest Oriental Libraries

Catalogs 

Gest Library maintains four separate public catalogs: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Western language. 
Online subject access for all records cataloged after September 1982 is available.

Subject areas 

Works in Chinese, Manchu, Mongolian, Tibetan, Japanese, Korean; also works in Western languages covering East Asian
languages and literature.Note

Collection 

3,331 subscriptions; 564,488 monographs; 39,661 bound periodicals; 27,315 microforms.

Rare Books Collection 

Gest Library has a collection of about 120,000 volumes of string-bound books in Chinese. Most of the books were
printed in the Ming (1368-1644) and early Ch'ing (1644-1911) periods. 
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About the Technical Services Department
 


The Technical Services Department -- along with the departments of 

     Administrative Services, 
     Reference Collection Development, 
     Rare Books and Special Collections, and 
     Special Libraries,

is one of five major units which constitute the Princeton University Library. The five units are: 
    i.Administrative Services, 
    ii.Reference Collection Development, 
    iii.Rare Books and Special Collections, and 
                                                 A.Technical Services Department
                                                 B.Special Libraries.

 

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                                The Technical Services Department provides technical processing:
                                acquisition (where we pay in ¥, £, and ¢),cataloging, binding and record management  
 				for the vast majority of materials acquired for the Princeton
                                collections, with the chief exceptions of federal and New Jersey State
                                government documents, technical reports and ephemera. Specialized processing
operations, complementing those provided by the Technical Services Department, are those of the Technical Services
Section of the Gest Oriental Library and East Asian CollectionsSee above, the Rare Books and Manuscripts Cataloging
Team of the Rare Books and Special Collections Department, and the Documents Division of the Reference and
Collection Development Department. 

                 The Technical Services Department
                 is responsible for all
                 circulation, shelving and
                 stack maintenance functions
                 pertaining to the collections housed
                 within the main library (Firestone)
                 and the two remote book storage
                 facilities (the annexes), comprising
                 more than one-half of the Library's
                 holdings of six million volumes. 
                                               Reserve/General Periodicals Services,
                                               a unit of the Circulation Division of the
                                               Technical Services Department,
                                               maintains and services the General
                                               Periodicals Collection (containing
                                               more than 4,200 active newspapers,
                                               periodicals and other serials) and the
                                               Library's primary course reserve
                                               facilities (typically serving ca. 250
                                               academic courses and maintaining
                                               10,000 reserve items per semester). 


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