Abstract
The Bavarian State Library (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek) holds a rich collection of Chinese, Japanese and Korean books and manuscripts, overseen by Dr Thomas Tabery, curator of the East Asia Collection. It is the Chinese collection that stands out, in terms of both quality and quantity. Currently, it comprises around 230,000 printed volumes and over 3000 manuscripts including a large number of Chinese rare books and manuscripts. In the last years the library has made great efforts to make its East Asian materials more clearly visible and more easily accessible for the public and the scholarly community around the world. Bibliographic descriptions of Chinese and Japanese titles have been improved and extensive digitisation projects launched. As a result, today, the majority of out-of-copyright Chinese titles (titles published before 1875) as well as a large number of Japanese titles of the Bavarian State Library are fully digitised and freely accessible online.
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