You can use Hangul, Hanja and transliterations in the library catalogue.

Romanisation for Korean in South Korea follows the "Revised Romanisation", implemented in 2000. The transliteration system used before is/was McCune-Reischauer. In library catalogues you may find both. Romanisation in North Korea follows a modified version of McCune-Reischauer.

Korean language books are held in several different locations:

Menzies East Asian

These books are located in the Menzies Library, on Level One (for Harvard-Yenching items) and Level Three.

Call numbers beginning with numerals, i.e. 9291 5436 are arranged by Harvard-Yenching (H-Y) classification and are found on Level One (basement level). Most of these were titles acquired by the Library before 1993.

Call numbers beginning with letters belong to the Library of Congress (LC) classification, and are found on Level Three. Significant call number ranges are:

• Korea -- History : DS907
• Korea -- Political Science DS901-DS916
• Korea -- Literature (PL901)
• Korea -- Labor (various areas)

English Language

Books in English and other non CJK languages about Korea with the location Menzies can be found in the Menzies Library on Level Four.

Print Repository

These books are stored off-campus. To request a title, sign in to your library account, then click the “Request” tab in the online catalogue record and follow the instructions.