Mission

CONSALD (Committee on South Asian Libraries and Documentation) is organized as a committee of the South Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies. The primary objective of CONSALD is the development of North American library resources related to South Asia. The Committee shall facilitate library cooperation, collection development, bibliographic control, access, and preservation to benefit the use of South Asian research and teaching materials.

Membership
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Members of CONSALD are also members of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS). Click here to join AAS.

CONSALD Listserv

For more about joining the CONSALD listserv, click here.

Upcoming Meeting

The Annual Conference on South Asia in Madison, Wisconsin
​October 15, 2020

1. Books are for use.      2. Books are for all.      3. Every book its reader.
4. Save the time of the reader.         5. A library is a growing organism.
- S.R. Ranganathan's "The Five Laws of Library Science" (1931)