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14Sep
2012

Minutes of NLR’s 5th Annual Directors’ Meeting

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

MINUTESOFBOARDMEETING5sep2012.doc   

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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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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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