Post Tagged with: "Myanmar Book Centre"

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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11Jul
2011

A Perfect Monday

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

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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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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