Large gifts from the late Professor Hiroshi Miyaji and from Robert and Take Dean have increased Middlebury’s Japanese Collection by 50%; we now have approximately 4,500 items in the collection. In addition, items containing some English as well as Japanese (including bi-lingual dictionaries) are in the regular stacks and video materials are in the video collections.
The Japanese Collection has extensive works of Japanese literature and works on Japanese literature, philosophy, religion, and history. It includes resources on almost any subject imaginable and can be used to support papers in almost any field.
For the first few weeks of the Japanese summer school, a significant selection of recently added titles is displayed in the New Book shelves section of the Main Library. Books we did not add to the collection or which have been removed from the collection will be displayed separately for sale from July 7-12; these books are chiefly duplicates of items already in the collection and may well be of interest to individuals.