On April 2, 2005, in conjunction with the Association for Asian Studies meeting held in Chicago, the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC), in participation with the Center for South Asian Libraries (CSAL), the Committee on Research Materials on Southeast Asia (CORMOSEA), the Center for Research in Computational Linguistics (CRCL), Northern Illinois University Libraries and the Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library (THDL, University of Virginia) presented “Challenges and Opportunities for Information Access for Asian Studies.” The informative roundtable discussion was chaired by David Magier, Library Consultant to CAORC, President of CSAL and Director of Area Studies, Columbia University Libraries. The other members of the panel were: Diane Ryan, Program Coordinator of CAORC’s Digital Library for International Research (DLIR) project; Jim Nye, Treasurer and Secretary of CSAL and Bibliographer for Southern Asia, University of Chicago; Doug Cooper, President of CRCL; Gray Tuttle of the THDL project, and Gregory Green of Northern Illinois University Libraries. The roundtable provided an opportunity for librarians involved in international collaborative information projects to showcase the new research-support resources for Asian Studies that they are creating. The over thirty Asian Studies scholars who attended the panel had a chance to see first-hand some of the most exciting recent developments in large-scale efforts to provide new bibliographic and full-text access to important and unique research resources from libraries and archives in Asia. In addition, attendees learned how they can immediately begin to make use of these non-commercial, freely available online resources of which they may have been unaware.