digitised. Selections of the digitized materials are searchable down to individual chapters. First results from the Western inventory can be viewed and searched in the digital presentation of the Staats [...] Subject Collections East and South-East Asia (Sondersammelgebiet Ost- und Südostasien; SSG): SSG 6,25 Digital With this ongoing project, the East Asia Department of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin has started [...] In the history of Chinese art, however, copper printing remained an episode. Lao Manuscripts The Digital Library of Lao Manuscripts (Digitale Bibliothek Lao Manuscripts, DLLM) collects scans of nearly 12

albeit their title entries are partially rather sketchy. They are available in digital format and can be accessed in the digital collections of the Staatsbibliothek (a structured access is possible via Search [...] 309 titles in Berlin and 84 in Krakow, the digitisation project will make it possible to provide digital access for the general public to about one quarter of the historical Libri sinici ( Libri sin. and

Asia Department of Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (Berlin State Library) digitized selected parts of its Berlin holdings. The digitization project encompassed five segments of the collection in East Asian languages:

Kulturbesitz. Wiesbaden 1982 Since 2009, all card catalogues are gradually being converted into digital format, providing a combined electronical documentation in the online catalogue of the EAD. Conversion

in digitized form. The already digitized manuscripts as well as the digitized book holdings for the region of Southeast Asia can be found under Southeast Asia Collection of CrossAsia’s digitized ressources [...] resources on traditional and modern China that contrast traditional printed facsimile editions with digital, searchable full-text editions, such as, for example, 10,000 traditional titles of the collection

that have concluded a respective contract with the EAD. The portal CrossAsia provides access to digital resources for scientific and scholarly information in the field of Asian Studies. Within the project

Asien – Project coordination Tristan Hinkel tristan.hinkel@sbb.spk-berlin.de Tel.: +49 30 266 436152 Digital Services | CrossAsia Lab Dr. Martina Siebert martina.siebert@sbb.spk-berlin.de Tel.: +49 30 266 436120

resources on traditional and modern China that contrast traditional printed facsimile editions with digital, searchable full-text editions, such as, for example, 10,000 traditional titles of the collection

historical East Asia collection at Berlin and Krakow has been digitised in the projects SSG 6,25 digital and Berlin-Krakow . Digitasiation of further titles can be requested via CrossAsia DoD . Bibliography