CKS Library
Since opening in 2001, the Center for Khmer Studies (CKS) Library in Siem Reap has grown from a few hundred to over 19,000 titles.
Situated within Wat Damnak, a thriving Buddhist monastery in the heart of Siem Reap, the CKS Library is the largest academic library in Cambodia outside of the capital and the second most important for the social sciences and humanities throughout the country.
The library is open to all, free of charge, from Monday through Saturday. Its collection of periodicals has expanded to include, among others: Kambuja Soriya, Bulletin de l’École française d’Extrême-Orient, Aséanie, and Asian Perspectives, as well as the journals of the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization’s Regional Centre for Archaeology and Fine Arts (SPAFA) and the Siam Society.
The collection also contains unique, out-of-print publications from local and overseas libraries, a wide selection of M.A. and Ph.D. dissertations from overseas universities, and research papers by Cambodian university students and CKS Fellows.
See CKS Library Online Catalog.
Views of the library outside and inside [photos by CKS, 2024].
Views of the library outside and inside [photos by CKS, 2024].
Views of the library outside and inside [photos by CKS, 2024].