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 by year’s end. How that work is accomplished, how libraries are selected to receive our assistance, and proposed improvements in our program will take up our morning discussion.
We hope to begin funding repair and reconstruction of structures in 2010, which is a very different task than replacing books. Discussion of how to raise funds for that purpose, criteria to use as we select libraries, and how we will contract workers to rebuild each library will take most of the afternoon.
NRL directors will visit a number of libraries in Pyapon and Bogalay Townships that we are assisting on October 27-28, then return to Yangon to survey libraries we helped this year, or hope to assist in 2010. We will also meet with program administrators of other INGO Nargis relief projects and embassy officials supervising distribution of the Tripartite Core Group funds [UN, ASEAN and Myanmar government].
Our November post will be delayed so all this activity can be incorporated.
MYANMAR BOOK AID AND PRESERVATION FOUNDATION’S AGENDA
ROUNDTABLE MEETING WITH NARGIS LIBRARY RECOVERY DIRECTORS
Date : 31st October 2009 (Saturday)
Place : Park Royal Hotel, Shwedagon Pagoda Road
9:00 am Opening Speech U Thaw Kaung
9:10 am Introduction to directors of MBAPF and donors Dr. Thant Thaw Kaung
9:20 am Explanation of the Program Details Dr. John Badgley
10:00 am Coffee Break
10:30 am Criteria for selecting libraries for book donation & book replacement subects Dr. Thant Thaw Kaung
11:15 am Future fund raising program John Badgley
12:00 noon Lunch
1:30 pm Review of visits to libraries in delta & Yangon Jack/Hector/John/Thant
2:00 pm Future Criteria of rebuilding libraries Thant/ John
2:30pm Coffee Break
2: 45pm Winding up and general discussion
3:00pm Closing Speech U Thaw Kaung
*A dozen Burmese librarians, publishers, authors and business representatives will participate. Their commitments have made our success thus far possible.
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