The literacy education materials formerly owned by the Asia-Pacific Cultural Centre for UNESCO is the collection presents a large corpus of materials of 3,487 items collected by the Centre in the course of its activities in 25 countries throughout the Asia-Pacific region.

The essential distinctive feature of the collection is that it consists of teaching materials intended for out-of-school (non-formal) education of illiterate adults. And the collection provides valuable primary sources for studies in a variety of research areas, such as education, history, linguistics, local culture, gender, hygiene and public health.

Catalogs of this collection have been published as A catalog of the Asian Research Library collection of the literacy education materials formerly owned by the Asia-Pacific Cultural Centre for UNESCO, 1-3, (Asian Research Library Series, 1-3), 2022-2023.

• The materials contained in this catalog can be used by anyone who can admit into the General Library.
• The materials contained in this catalog are not registerd in the UTokyo OPAC
• The materials contained in this catalog will be delivered by staff, so please contact us by email at least 7 days before (excluding weekends and holidays) the date you wish to use.
  asialib★lib.u-tokyo.ac.jp（Please use @ instead of ★）
• The full text of this catalog is also available on the UTokyo Repository.

  • KAWAHARA Yayoi & SUZUKI Mai (eds.), A catalog of the Asian Research Library collection of the literacy education materials formerly owned by the Asia-Pacific Cultural Centre for UNESCO, 1 (Asian Research Library Series, 1), 2022.

    This volume includes the materials from: Afghanistan, China, Iran, Mongolia, and Uzbekistan.

  • KAWAHARA Yayoi (ed.), A catalog of the Asian Research Library collection of the literacy education materials formerly owned by the Asia-Pacific Cultural Centre for UNESCO, 2 (Asian Research Library Series, 2), 2023.

    This volume includes the materials from: Australia, Fiji, Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Malaysia, Philippines, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Thailand and Vietnam.

  • KAWASAKI Yutaka (ed.), A catalog of the Asian Research Library collection of the literacy education materials formerly owned by the Asia-Pacific Cultural Centre for UNESCO, 3 (Asian Research Library Series, 3), 2023.

    This volume includes the materials from: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and other materials.

As for this collection, also refer to the introduction by U-PARL