Bridge (St. Olaf and Carleton, combined) will offer subject access to individual materials on your topic (but not individual journal articles -- more on that later). Use a KeyWord search if you do not know the subject heading or you wish to combine more than one idea. Conduct a Subject search if you know the subject heading.
University of Minnesota Libraries ; UMN East Asian Library
University of Minnesota materials are available to you for free through Minitex.  The first address is for their online catalog; the second is the home page for the East Asia collection.  From that page you have access to a variety of databases.
World Cat : Originally the database for cooperative library catalog records; now a sophisticated search engine for books, journals (but not articles!), musical scores, government documents, videos, websites, manuscript materials, and anything else a library might catalog (puppets, anyone?). Useful to get a feel for how many and which libraries might own a particluar esoteric item so you can decide if something is worth requesting on interlibrary loan. Subject, author and title searching possible. Use Library of Congress Subject Headings as descriptors; keyword searches are okay for narrowly defined topics. Duplicate records signify disagreements among librarians as to how an item should be cataloged. Once at the record level, click on the library icon to see which libraries hold an item, and request with the ILL button if you want it. Items from Minnesota libraries should come in a very timely way; UWiscMadison cooperates with Minitex but is slower. We have cooperative lending agreements with other liberal arts colleges; you are more likely to have to pay with the bigger universities.

Country Specific Items: Search in Bridge by keyword using a rather general subject heading and the word "bibliography" (e.g. Japan Bibliography). The "Limit This Search" [by date] command can be very useful in clearing older materials out of your set.

• World Bibliographical Series . ABC-Clio Press has an ongoing series of country bibliographies. They are most easily accessible by doing a keyword search for "world bibliographical series country," e.g. world bibliographical series laos.