Early in 1979 the Central Nationalities Institute (Zhongyang minzu xueyuan) in Beijing invited me to spend the summer of that year with them. I decided to stay for two months with the institute and another two weeks in Inner Mongolia. My time was spent inspecting library holdings on Mon­golia and preparing bibliographical entries for over 1,000 books and book chap­ters which will be included in Parts II and III of the Bibliotheca Mongolica. This report is based on my brief residence in Beijing and Huhehot and will address itself to institution and publications.