Post Tagged with: "libraries"

19Mar
2013

World Bank and Asian Development Bank Myanmar Assistance will support school libraries

http://www.worldbank.org/en/country/myanmar

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23Jan
2013

Libraries in Myanmar, Asia and the West~~Share a Common Destiny

Pew Study Suggests Libraries (And Print) Still Have A Future In An E-Book World ANTHONY HA Monday, January 21st, 2013 1 Comments A new study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project looks at the future of libraries. The study, titled “Library services in the digital age,” doesn’t include anything particularly shocking or revelatory, but it suggests that many people still value the role of libraries, and that librarians are thinking about how their services can evolve. Pew found that in the past [...]

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20Nov
2012

Myanmar Students May Use Libraries for High Value Internet Courses

November 19, 2012 College of Future Could Be Come One, Come All By TAMAR LEWIN Teaching Introduction to Sociology is almost second nature to Mitchell Duneier, a professor at Princeton: he has taught it 30 times, and a textbook he co-wrote is in its eighth edition. But last summer, as he transformed the class into a free online course, he had to grapple with some brand-new questions: Where should he focus his gaze while a camera recorded the lectures? How could the 40,000 [...]

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14Sep
2012

Minutes of NLR’s 5th Annual Directors’ Meeting

MINUTESOFBOARDMEETING5sep2012.doc   

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8Sep
2012

Village Knowledge Centers~~Sesh Velamoor

Follow this article. It leads to our village/town/city learning centers~~as  libraries we’re now assisting in Myanmar will be transformed. Choices already made are outlined, options remaining come into clear focus. Myanmar is the beneficiary of a priceless library, Foundation for the Future’s collection of books, serials and one-of-a-kind research reports. Sesh Velamoor assembled this lode over fifteen years as he led the Foundation’s extraordinary workshops. conferences and gatherings. Scholars from around the world participated. What is most appealing is the practical [...]

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