Libraries and the development of civilization / Syed Hussein Alatas -- Collecting Malay books in nineteenth century Europe / Holger Warnk -- British collectors, classifiers and researchers of the Malay world from the eighteenth to early twentieth century / Nicholas Martland -- Preserving what otherwise would be lost : the KITLV library / Sirtjo Koolhof -- The Malay world at the Library of Congress / Kathryn Anderson -- Southeast Asia librarianship in the U.S. / Rohayati Paseng Barnard -- Monash and the Malay world / Aline Scott-Maxwell -- Australian National University and the Malay world / Anna Reid -- Library as a heritage of a new nation : the National Library of Malaysia / Zawiyah Baba -- The National Library of Indonesia / Sungkowo Rahardo -- National Archives of Malaysia / Rahani Jamil -- The Malay Documentation Centre / Rohani Rustam -- The future of libraries and Malay studies / Shamsul Amir Baharuddin.