Please note that all publications in Western languages about East Asia (published in English, German, French, etc.) can be found in the Main Catalogue of the library. The following information applies only to holdings in the languages of East Asia (Chinese, etc.).

The Central Asia Catalogue (GB encoded) contains books in the Mongolian, Tibetan, and Uyghur languages, which have been catalogued in recent years. The main bulk of the Catalogue consists of books in the Mongolian language (approximately 4000 items) mostly published in Mongolia after World War II, but also a fair number of publications from China (Inner Mongolia). Tibetan is represented by some 2000 items, published partly in China, and partly by the Tibetan exile communities in India and Nepal. There are also a few Dzongkha publications from Bhutan. Uyghur books number only a few hundreds at the time of writing (August 2002).
If you are interested in periodicals, please note that the catalogue contains only information referring to the periodical title. For actual periodical holdings and a complete bibliographic description please consult the Zeitschriften Datenbank (Periodicals Database [ZDB]).
For all other Central Asia relevant SBB - PK holdings in Western languages refer to the Main catalogue.
In order to login to the Central Asia catalogue use a web browser and connect to:

http://ead.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/cat1/

This database is GB encoded, hence a font-end-processor like UnionWay or ChinesePartner is needed.

Romanization

The original scripts used for writing the Central Asian languages mentioned above are all alphabetical scripts which can be romanised. The transliteration systems by which these alphabets  are converted into Latin letters are outlined as follows:
For further details see also:
Cyrillic 
Mongol 
Tibetan 
Uyghur
Chinese

Help & Information

To view Chinese characters use a font-end processor which is able to read Chinese characters (GB). The Central Asia catalogue currently contains approximately 10,000 records (last update August 2002).
To search the index of the catalogue always use small letters.
German "umlauts" (ä, ü, ö) should be typed ae, ue, oe.
The romanisation applied used in the catalogue is Hanyu Pinyin. Please note that Chinese personal names transcribed along Hanyu Pinyin need to be written in one string:

Search for: wangaili
Instead of: wang, aili or wang aili

More detailed information on the Chinese catalogue can be found here: