Archive for January, 2010

6Jan
2010

Knowledge Bank Library–

Happy New Year!!  We wish you all the best for this 2010. Let me give you  good news.  I am now attaching photos of a new library which we all should be proud of.  This is a newly opened private library located in central Yangon (on Fraser Road near Sule Pagoda).   95% of  books  in these photos are donated by us.  Most are from Thrift Books, some are donated by the  University of Washington Library.  Since this library concentrate on [...]

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5Jan
2010

Books Across The Delta: Goals for 2010

NARGIS LIBRARY RECOVERY NEWSLETTER #11  January As I write this newsletter NLR’s fourth 40 foot, high cube container of books is being transferred into MBAPF’s Yangon warehouse, while our fifth container is loaded at Thrift Books’ Dallas, Texas warehouse. It will travel by rail to Port Seattle and ship mid-month: just routine actions; yet 50,000 books are in each container. Our project has attained a level of performance inconceivable at the outset, in September 2008, now we can reasonably project [...]

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