Elling O. Eide Library

The Elling O. Eide Library (Eide Library) is a private, independent, non-profit, non-circulating, special collections research library named for its founder, Elling Oliver Eide (1935-2012). The Elling Eide Library shares its collections to promote and encourage the study of medieval China and Inner Asia. Elling Eide’s collecting, guided by methodological and meticulous principles grounded in Chinese bibliography, linguistic knowledge, and amplified by an encyclopedic approach, led to the acquisition of numerous significant works, laying the groundwork for the Library’s future. The Eide Library’s exemplary collection of printed materials, manuscripts, rare books, and works of art facilitates its ability to support collections-based research in specialized academic fields such as literature, linguistics, history, and culture of medieval China (200 CE – 1000 CE) and neighboring regions of greater East Asia.