This issue is devoted to the Center’s Southeast Asia collections, resources, and activities, including its preservation programs, partnerships, new acquisitions, and e-resources.

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CONTENTS:

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE – Ensuring Access to Sources for Research on Southeast Asia.

SOUTHEAST ASIA MICROFORM PROJECT (SEAM)
The growth and achievements of SEAM, its preservation and acquisition strategies, and collection highlights.

PRESERVING KHMER ROUGE ARCHIVES
The Yale-CRL undertaking to preserve the official documentation of the activities, policies, and objectives of the Santebal, the secret state police of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge.

ACQUIRED BY CRL IN 2005
The newly acquired, five-part archive of British Foreign Office Files covering Southeast Asia from 1959-1966. The archive includes extensive documentation of the U.S. war in Viet Nam.

PRESERVATION MICROFILMING IN VIET NAM
How SEAM established a microfilming program at the National Library of Viet Nam, to ensure preservation of rare newspapers, with details on funding, training, field logistics, and highlights of the preserved materials.

THE DIGITAL SOUTHEAST ASIA LIBRARY
Details on the October 1, 2005 launch of the Digital Southeast Asia Library, based at Northern Illinois University Library, which provides free access to a number of collaborating archives.