Three directors of NRL [Hector Rivas, Jack Simpson and John Badgley] join Myanmar Book Aid and Preservation Foundation directors on October 31 at Park Royal Hotel, Yangon for a day-long discussion about our joint project. U Thaw Kaung will moderate discussion as noted in the attached agenda. Dr. Thant Thaw Kaung will report on how staff of Myanmar Book Centre and librarian volunteers unloaded, sorted, selected and distributed over 100,000 books thus far, and the additional 100,000 scheduled to arrive [...]

NARGIS LIBRARY RECOVERY PROJECT NEWSLETTER #8, OCTOBER 2009 Our fourth container of books ships from Seattle October 9, with Thrift Books donating 30,000 children’s, 10,000 trade hard/soft back NYT bestsellers, plus 5,000 reference and ‘how-to’ titles and 2,000 cookbooks, plus 3,000 academic texts donated by University of Washington Libraries. As noted in previous postings, 10-15% of these books are sold through charitable book fairs and Myanmar Book Centre stores in Yangon and Mandalay to raise funds for Burmese languages texts [...]