Acq Programs
- Indonesia Program
- Vietnam Program
- Chinese Program
- Malaysia Program
- Thailand Program
- Laos Program
- Phillipines Program
- Burma Program
- Singapore Program [under construction]
- Brunei Program [under construction]
- Timor Program [under construction]
Since the early 1960s the Library of Congress Office, Jakarta, Indonesia, serves as the regional office for Southeast Asia. The Jakarta office is responsible for collecting scholarly materials specifically in Indonesia, Singapore, Timor and Vietnam. It has expanded its operations and now oversees the representative offices in Bangkok, Thailand; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; and Manila, Philippines. These information acquisitions programs were established support the access information needs of the U.S. Congress and the American people. Staff actively seek out and acquire material that would otherwise be unavailable to researchers. Staff coordinates with vendors to buy new books as they are published, and maintain contacts and exchange agreements with various international, governmental, and nongovernmental organizations to acquire noncommercial material. Acquisitions trips are also taken to collect material from outlying provinces, and staff regularly searches local bookstores and the World Wide Web for material that might have been missed. The Jakarta office offers hundreds of serial titles, thousands of monographs, e-materials annually to CAPSEA institutions.
In addition to the management and acquisitions functions the Jakarta staff are the primary Library of Congress unit for the original cataloging of Southeast Asian materials. The office is only one of two Library of Congress regional offices that also as preservation operations for microformatting and an experimental digitalization section. Once the material is acquired, staff does original cataloging.
The office is located in the heart of Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia, on the island of Java. The over forty staff work in an independent compound that consists of converted two-story house three additional buildings all surrounding a small courtyard.