CEAS Lending Library 

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CEAS Lending Library

CEAS is constantly adding to its lending library of printed media, multimedia, vernacular items, traditional items, teaching tools, costumes, and toys from East Asia. These materials are available free of charge to educators who can pick them up in person. CEAS library items are available for public use and can be checked out from our office. Please note that we DO NOT mail the library items. 
These are great resources for teachers. We are currently creating our region-themed culture kits for the Lunar New Year, Mid-Autumn Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Chuseok, and Japanese calculating. Please come back for a detailed list of our inventory and the Culture Kits organized by themes. 

 

Examples

Book item– Morning Sun in Wuhan

Morning Sun in Wuhan is a highly engaging quick read for younger readers. Thirteen-year-old Mei Li (pronounced: may lee) is a foodie and a gamer who has found herself caught at the nexus of the COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan, China. Check out our 20 copies and bring the story to your classroom. A guide for teaching and discussion is also available upon request. 
Morning Sun in Wuhan

Culture Kit item– そろばん Japanese soroban abacus

Learn math the East Asian way! Students across East Asia practice a form of the abacus at school or in after-school lessons. You can provide the same experience to your students using this class set of 40 soroban. Using the beads to count ones and fives provides a scaffold to mental arithmetic while introducing your students to a new perspective on how they view doing math.
four Japanese soroban abacus

Instructions for Check-out

As we are currently building and expanding our lending library, it is best to contact CEAS and inform us of the type of materials you are interested in. Then, we can either lend you our current items or source them for you. Please make sure to include the following information.

Email: eas-center@arizona.edu
Phone: 520-621-0777

  • School/ organization/ institution name
  • Contact person (email address)
  • Item(s) you wish to check out
  • Preferred date to have the item(s)
  • Preferred duration of keeping the item(s)
  • Student grade and class size (optional)

Note: Lending Library items are subject to availability.

If there are resources you would like to have but are not listed on our inventory, please fill out the form https://forms.gle/oMvCBP7Ed2SZVLLA7. We welcome all suggestions as we continue to build and expand our lending library.