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SEA Library Collections

The University of Michigan is home to one of the best library collections on Southeast Asia. Below are links to these collections:

Harlan Hatcher Library, Southeast Asia Collections
While three countries - Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand - have received the most comprehensive attention in collections, the Hatcher Library is also concerned with developing the collection by increasing our holdings for the other seven countries that make up the geographic region: Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar (Burma), Singapore, and Vietnam.

The Hatcher Library collection can be searched online here.

The Bentley Historical Library Philippines Collection
 Over the past one hundred years or more, a large number of University of Michigan faculty and alumni and other citizens of the state of Michigan have played a decisive role in shaping relations between the United States and the Philippines. The Bentley Historical Library has collected the papers of many of these men and women.

The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
 The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library, housed on the University of Michigan's North Campus, contains core collections on the war in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos during especially the Nixon and Ford administrations; the flight of refugees from Indochina after April 1975 and the admittance of many to the United States; the accounting of U.S. armed forces MIAs and POWs; and the issue of amnesty/clemency for draft resisters and military absence offenders.