Korean materials in the C.V. Starr East Asian library can be found in CLIO, Columbia Libraries online catalog, in romanized form as well as in Korean scripts. Searches can be done in either Korean or with the romanization. However, searches using romanization are more reliable for finding materials than searches using Korean script.

Korean materials are romanized using the McCune-Reischauer system as defined by the Library of Congress. The McCune-Reischauer system, based on pronunciation, is quite different from the system developed by the Korean Ministry of Culture & Tourism. The following resources are useful for your better understanding how to romanize Korean using the McCune-Reischauer system:

• ALA-LC romanization table for Korean
• Choe Tae-yong, "Hangul matchumpop kanghae"  Seoul: Sungsil Taehakkyo Chulpanbu, 1989. PL917.C43 1989
• Romanization table from UCLA East Asian Library
• "Tables of the McCune-Reischauer system for the romanization of Korean" Seoul, Korea, 1961. PL911.T3 1961g

If you are unable to find materials in CLIO, please search one of the following catalogs using romanized search terms.

• Borrow Direct
  Students, faculty, and staff can request materials through this interlibrary loan service from partner institutions, including Brown University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, and Yale University.
• OCLC WorldCat
  A union catalog consisting of over 57 million cataloging records and holding information of 17,000 member libraries of the OCLC Consortium around the world, comprising of books, serials, manuscript collections, audiovisual materials, computer files, and other media. Students, faculty, and staff can request these materials through Interlibrary Loan.