The Sainsbury Institute gives an annual grant to fund the purchase of books on Japanese art and culture in the SOAS library. The long-term goal is to make the SOAS-Sainsbury Institute library consortium one of top resources in the West for volumes on Japanese art and culture. The library project, inaugurated in 1999, has focused on acquiring out-of-print books from the post-war period and recently published multi-volume series on Japanese art, especially in the areas of Japanese painting, prints, and calligraphy. Purchases of rare or out-of-print books on highly specialised topics are coordinated to make collections of SOAS Library and the Lisa Sainsbury Library supplement and build on each other.

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