Post Tagged with: "Mandalay"

7May
2012

Myanmar Libraries We Are Assisting

Direct library assistance means individual libraries we are helping; Redistribution Libraries means centers sustaining distant town & village libraries through mobile delivery via boat, truck or bullock cart.

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19Feb
2012

Our Myanmar Books for Mandalay Libraries

Popular LiteratureVery Library Needs These Stamping Before Giving

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17Feb
2012

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

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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28Jan
2012

STELLAR STUDENT MANAGED LIBRARIES

Scattered in Myanmar’s two largest cities~~Yangon and Mandalay~~ are a dozen student-created and managed lending libraries. Each has the unique stamp of the young trustees who dreamed up their project. In each case, they came to our partner, Myanmar Book and Preservation Foundation, seeking books and in several instances, funding to expand their capacity. The photos that follow reveal a new generation of bright young men and women who tested among the top secondary school graduates, and applied for study [...]

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27Mar
2011

December 2010 Trip Activities

By David Leuthold Activities during Myanmar Trip, December 2010 Wednesday December 8. Arrive at Winner Inn about 5:30 pm Welcome Dinner sponsored by Myanmar Book Aid and Preservation Foundation (MBAPF) at Royal Garden restaurant at 7 pm. Guests included U Thaw Kaung, founder of Myanmar’s Library Diploma program, distinguished historian, patron of NLR project and father of Thant Thaw, Thaw’s wife Su-Su, Thant Thaw, his wife May Moe Nwe, Dr. Robert Taylor and Dr. Myo Myint (Cornell PhD, former Director-General [...]

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21Jul
2010

Tour Myanmar & Our Libraries in December 2010

I visit Myanmar annually,  more often since our Nargis Library Recovery started, usually accompanied with a few friends and interested newcomers. The tour remains very economical and the country has more regions open to learners than any time in the past half-century. A daughter of an adviser to this project  arranges details and pricing for each trip through her travel agency, which is independent of the government, a start-up she created by franchising with Exotissimo, an Italian global agency. I [...]

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28Mar
2009

Gaylords of Books

  Photo of gaylord box with texts in our next container shipment for this May. Most of us know nothing about ‘gaylord boxes’ so this offers a view of how 1000 books [plus or minus] fit in one gaylord. Forty-four gaylords constitute a full 40 foot container. We expect to continue emphasizing children’s books until Thant and our librarians change priorities. Our second largest category is trade books, both hard and soft cover NYT best sellers. Specialty categories make up [...]

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