Post Tagged with: "Dr. Thant Thaw Kaung"

17Feb
2012

Our Mandalay Book Fair Donations

in About the Project, Donations, Newsletter, Our Myanmar Partner-MBAPF
Our Mandalay Book Fair Donations

As you know from previous postings, we are able to purchase Myanmar language texts and reference books because of MBAPF’s success in staging book fairs. Two weeks ago Thant organized one in Mandalay’s newest mall, using lobby space rented from the owners at a sharply reduced rate. This kind of support from many Myanmar businesses really stretches our cash donations.  People who buy books at our book fairs are donating kyats so we can buy Myanmar language texts, dictionaries and [...]

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31Jan
2012

Our Three Library Readers Workshops

in About the Project, Cultural, Libraries, Newsletter, Our Myanmar Partner-MBAPF, Sponsors

Check out Jack Simpson’s blog following our Library Readers workshops organized by Gayle Holmes and Sue Simpson. I am grateful for financial support offered by the  Opportunity Foundation and the considerable effort by the leadership of MBAPF in organizing this pedagogical experiment in Bogalay, Yangon and Mandalay! Over ninety participants–librarians, teachers, administrators and monks–learned how to teach early readers through a method that invites children and readers alike to ease into English through imaginative games that Gayle and her husband, [...]

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15Nov
2011

Marc Piano’s Library Reading Report

in About the Project, Libraries, Library Photos, Newsletter, Tour Reports
Marc Piano’s Library Reading Report

MARC PIANO’S REPORT OF HIS LIBRARY READER EXPERIENCE IN LATE AUGUST, 2011 On Monday morning I met with members of the Myanmar Youth Empowerment Program. Set up by 11 young men and women, this group teaches ‘soft skills’ to its students, based on education and training the founders received from the Pacific Education Trust. The school is based just outside of Yangon. As well as requesting books, it was agreed that I would visit on the Saturday. I also met [...]

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12Nov
2011

Myanmar Language Books Distributed

in About the Project, Donations, Our Myanmar Partner-MBAPF

As for average number of copies per title, it is about 5 copies per title. As for books, we donate both children and adult.  Below are the subject area that we usually chose. 1. Children Books – eg. books published by Ko Tar 2. Self-help books3. Livelihood books4. History and culture5. Politics and current affairs6. Fiction7. Non-fiction8. Magazine and Journals9. Exercise books, pencils and stationaries As for 2009-10, we donated 45,662 copies of titles.  So far, we have donated 58,334 [...]

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11Jul
2011

A Perfect Monday

in About the Project, Donations, Libraries, Newsletter, Our Myanmar Partner-MBAPF

Black Fridays are commonplace in this era of financial stress; perfect Mondays come much less frequently. Today achieved that stature because of five contributors: Professors Frank Ching and Barry Onouye, just retired after a career of teaching in the University of Washington’s Department of Architecture and donated a gaylord box filled with texts & references in their field; then Marc Piano located a potential donor with 300,000 books in England; and Carolyn Aamot, University of Washington’s Gifts Librarian, steered Ching [...]

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2Apr
2011

Rural Library Development Foundation, Myanmar’s First

in Libraries, Press
Rural Library Development Foundation, Myanmar’s First

With no fanfare our NLR/MBAPF project became the model for Myanmar’s national program to sustain rural libraries. MYANMAR TIMES By Sandar Lwin March 7 – 13,, 2011 NEW LIBRARY CARDS MAKE HAPPY KIDS THE task facing administrators and backers of rural libraries is immense. While lack of funding means many are under-resourced, a greater challenge, experts say, is simply getting people to pick up a book. “Rural society has basically been divorced from reading for a century. We have only [...]

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28Mar
2011

Library Opened in Thingangone

in Libraries

By David Leuthold Thingangone [thin’-gan’-goan’] Community Library officially opened December 14, 2010, the first library constructed under Nargis Library Recovery (NLR) auspices.  Previous articles have referred to the library as being in Labutta; Thingangone is in Labutta Township. Thingangone village is located in the southwest corner of Myanmar, on the Irrawaddy River Delta, and was ravaged by Cyclone Nargis in May 2008.  Two small existing libraries were destroyed.  The village is the principal community on Middle Island, which has 40,000 [...]

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27Mar
2011

2011-2013 NLR Funding and Program Goals

in About the Project, Donations, Friends of NLR

  Report by our ad-hoc committee:  John Badgley, Roger Paget, and Jack Simpson, with appended comment by Dave Richards WE ARE A UNIQUE ORGANIZATION – AN ACCOMPLISHMENT IN ITSELF NLR’s greatest achievement may be simply “opening up” Myanmar to more involvement, showing that even with sanctions and the bad feeling between the US and Myanmar, a small lightly funded organization from the US can make a big difference. Our opinion is supported by these facts: We have developed constructive relationships [...]

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27Mar
2011

Daw Ah Win’s Comment on the Cochran Trip Report

in Tour Reports

Dear Bill, First of all your thoughts are very valuable.  I really want to know how you evaluated Myanmar’s current library development and what suggestions you have for the future.  These are the seeds and the plants can not come out without the seeds.  What follows is information for you as we did not have time for discussion during the trip. Partnership Concerning  our partnership, I would like to describe my role.  UNWG, Vienna, is not a partner with NLR [...]

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18Mar
2011

Letter from Billings Librarian to Myanmar Library Friends

in About the Project, Friends of NLR, Newsletter, Our Myanmar Partner-MBAPF, Tour Reports

Letter to Myanmar Library Friends February 10, 2011 Each of you asked if I would share impressions of Myanmar libraries and your efforts to assist them, formed as a result of the December tour. I’m sending these thoughts while the journey is still fresh in my mind, in hopes that there might be something of value to you, although I suspect that you will have already thought of and discussed most of these ideas. I focus on libraries in the [...]

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