We are actively working to make the Eide Library collections easily accessible online and are implementing our new online catalog, which will allow scholars to search our entire collection.
Research at the Elling Eide Library
The Elling Eide Library welcomes researchers whose work would benefit from its general or special collections. Faculty, students, independent and retired scholars, librarians, and other researchers are encouraged to contact us. University affiliation is not required.
Research Appointment Hours: Monday – Friday • 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Other Ways to Engage
Not planning a research visit? There are other ways to engage with the Library. Learn about our exhibitions and upcoming programs below, or visit our Volunteer page under ‘Get Involved’ to explore volunteer opportunities.
Exhibitions and Programs
The Eide Library presents rotating exhibitions that bring works from its collections into conversation with broader themes in Asian art, literature, and culture. A new exhibition is currently installed at the Library. Opportunities to view the exhibition through scheduled talks, tours, and related programs will be announced soon.
Our library catalog will continue to expand daily until it represents our full collection of books, manuscripts, works of art, and objects dating back to the 13th century.
Digitization
We are also working to digitize materials from our Special Collections holdings, including manuscripts and rare books in Chinese, Japanese and Western languages, ephemera, archival collections, artwork, objects, and textiles to provide researchers better access to our materials from anywhere in the world.
Photo: Description of the Mangostan and the Bread-fruit; the first, esteemed one of the most delicious; the other, the most useful of all the fruits in the East Indies. To which are added, directions to voyagers, for bringing over these and other vegetable productions, which would be extremely beneficial to the inhabitants of our West India islands. Publication Date: 1775. Author: John Ellis RB HB161 .G64 1775
For an example of our digitized collections, flip through the volume below
Poems by Li Po
Poems by Li Po. Translated by Elling Eide. Lexington, KY: Anvil Press, 1984. vi, 69 leaves; includes translator’s note and finding lists (18 p., illustrated) and 1 sound disc. Limited edition of 150 copies. This elegantly produced volume presents a selection of 50 poems by the Tang dynasty poet Li Po (701–762), translated by Elling O. Eide (1935–2012). Printed to Elling’s exact specifications by the Anvil Press of Lexington, Kentucky, Poems exemplifies the highest standards of fine press printing and literary translation. The work was issued in a portfolio format, accompanied by a separate volume—Translator’s Note and Finding Lists—and a phonograph recording titled Tunes from the T’ang, transcribed and arranged by ethnomusicologist Laurence Picken and performed by the Jesus College Chinese Band, Cambridge. Elling’s translations are widely regarded as among the finest English renderings of Tang poetry.
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