The East Asian Library Collections are part of the collections for which yearly summer grants are available from the Friends of the Princeton University Library. 

The application process opens in the fall, are due by January, for research typically in the summer.

Browse recently added titles at the East Asian Library. 

The East Asian Library, a branch library in the Frist Campus Center, is open to all users (especially for professors and students of other institutions) without any particular procedure, during normal opening hours. Outside users will have access to use, but not borrow, all books on the shelves (those are listed with location East Asian Library in the online catalog), including the reference collection.

Also, our databases are freely available for anyone physically on campus. You can use them on the computers in the library without an ID., and save articles etc. to a memory stick; however, of course, usual legal restrictions (no massive batch downloads) apply.

A large percentage of books is in storage however, and the Princeton catalog also includes items in the storage collections we share with Columbia, Harvard and New York Public universities. These latter will not be available to visitors to the EAL (use ILL at your own institution for that.) For EAL books in storage (listed as Recap - Remote Storage), we suggest you contact [email protected], or any of the specialist librarians, well ahead in time; rarer EAL books in storage, including most traditionally bound books, are not available through ILL.

For items part of the EAL Rare Books collection (listed with location Special Collections - East Asian Library Rare Books in the online catalog), refer to the guidelines in using rare books. 

In Western languages, the EAL only holds books on language and literature, and book history. Other subjects are generally located in the Firestone main library; see the general access web page.