The Chiang Mai Library

Chiang Mai Library

Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient

131 Charoen Prathet Road
Chiang Mai 50100 , THAILAND
Tel : 00 66 53 272 421

Head: Mrs Raquel SELOSSE
Librarian: Mrs Naphat SUTTHICHAIDET
Cataloguer : Mr. Sumet PONJORN
Photographic archives : Mrs Duansiri SRICHAIWIT

 

In 2009-2010, the French School of Asian Studies built a new library on the grounds of its Chiang Mai Centre.  The new buildings are open to the public since 2011.  The EFEO library in Chiang Mai now holds a considerably enlarged collection of approximately 50 000 books in English, French, Thai and some other languages, focus on Asia, especially Southeast Asia and Thailand, Buddhism and other religions, philosophy, anthropology, archeology, history, art and literature.

In addition to its monograph holdings, the library also comprises a major collection of almost 53 000 issues of about 1 370 titles of periodicals in the fields of Thai and Southeast Asian Studies.

 

Opening hours

Monday to Friday from 9:00 am to 4:30 pm.

  • Closed on Thai public holidays and during the Songkrant festival, or Thai New Year, in mid-April.
  • Borrowing privileges are restricted to EFEO staff
The Chiang Mai centre
Head: Christophe Pottier

École française d'Extrême-Orient
 131 Charoen Prathet Road, A. Muang
Chiang Mai 50100, Thailand
Tel +66 53 28 05 80

christophe.pottier@efeo.net

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EFEO News
Visit of the French ambassador to Thailand
Chiang Mai, Thailand, 09 March 2021
On March 4, 2021, the French Ambassador to Thailand, Thierry Mathou, was welcomed at the EFEO Center in Chiang Mai by its director, Yves Goudineau, and by Jacques Leider, director of the EFEO Center in Bangkok.

After a presentation of the EFEO's activities in Thailand and the European projects it is piloting in the region, the ambassador took part in a round-table discussion on the human and social sciences that brought together some twenty people: academics, publishers, and journalists. 
Director's visit to the Chiang Mai Centre
Chiang Mai, Thailand, 06 February 2020
Le directeur de l’EFEO a signé le 6 février 2020 le renouvellement du MOU avec la Chiang Mai University, avec son président, en présence d’Yves Goudineau, responsable du Centre EFEO de Chiang Mai.
EFEO publications

In order to highlight the EFEO publications, a new website dedicated to them is online.
You can now consult the catalog of all the books published since the creation of the EFEO and buy directly those that interest you HERE.