East Asia Library generally collects books in Chinese, Japanese and Korean, and Chinese books include Chinese publications from Chinese mainland, Taiwan Province Province, Hongkong, Macau and overseas. At present, there are 86 East Asian libraries or collections in the United States and Canada. These libraries * * * have more than 500 librarians, more than 90,000 volumes of books/kloc-0, and more than 60,000 kinds of Chinese, Japanese and Korean periodicals, of which the purchase cost of Chinese books and materials exceeds 5 million US dollars.