LIBRARY

Updated October 12th 2011

Ian Proudfoot, one of the greatest scholars of the Malay world, passed away on 23 September 2011. Ian was with Australian National University in Canberra and transformed the world of Malay studies with his visionary online resources. Foremost is the Malay Concordance Project, a corpus of pre-modern Malay texts, now comprising over 140 texts and 5.7 million words, including 120,000 verses. Click here to read the introduction to the book 'Lost Times and Untold Tales From The Malay World' which pays tribute to his work.

The Sejarah Melayu Library is perhaps the largest public on-line collection of books and other documents on the history of the Malay archipleago and its surrounding region. Consisting of over 2700 books, academic papers and articles in electronic PDF format, the library is divided into eight broad sections:

GENERAL includes miscellaneous books related to specific topics in the history of the Malay archipleago and its surrounding region; HISTORIES AND OTHER REFERENCES contain general histories, encyclopedias, geography texts and other types of references; TRAVELOGUE consists of books and accounts by various travellers, explorers and visitors to the Malay archipelago; LANGUAGE houses dictionaries, vocabularies, grammar and other texts related to the Malay language and related languages; FICTION has novels, fables, short stories and other fictional works set in or with links to the Malay archipelago; JOURNALS houses key scholarly journals related to Malay studies; PAPERS AND ARTICLES contains selected academic papers and journal articles on various aspects of Malay history and culture; and NEWS AND DISPATCHES contains selected news, dispatches, reports, articles and other short snippets from historical newspapers, chronicles, gazettes and other publications.

Click on the '+' symbol of the relevant section folder to expand the folder and view the list of books available. Then click on any of the book icons listed to view summary information on it and a download link.

To view or download the book in question, left-click on the

symbol to view the relevant PDF file, or right-click and 'Save As' to your computer. Please note that files vary in size from less than 1 MB to nearly 100 MB, so please check the size of the file in question before downloading. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to read these books. You can download the latest version of Acrobat Reader at Adobe's website.

Contact the Librarian: Sabri Zain

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