Post Tagged with: "Thingangone"

30Apr
2012

Myanmar’s Libraries Future

in About the Project, Libraries, Newsletter, Our Myanmar Partner-MBAPF, Overall Nargis Recovery Strategy

Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin’s splendid study of Abraham Lincoln’s key cabinet members, could never have been written but for archived letters of their families saved in libraries. Kearns’ influential book about America’s civil war reminds me of another vital role of local libraries. They enable creative writers to re-frame history. Imagine an industrious Monywa scholar in 2060 turning to a private library archive to write a fresh interpretation of Myanmar’s 60 years of civil strife? Will they exist? [...]

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17Apr
2011

Daw Ah Win’s Photo Memory of our December Tour

in Libraries, Library Photos, Photo Galleries, Tour Reports
Daw Ah Win’s Photo Memory of our December Tour

To see photos of a recent trip, visit Daw Ah Win’s photos here: https://picasaweb.google.com/ahwin2006/NLRTripMyanmar2010?feat=email#

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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

Thingangon Library Report

in Libraries, Our Myanmar Partner-MBAPF

By Dr. Thant Thaw Kaung I would like to give an update on MBAPF activities: Thingangone (Latputta) Library – I met with these villagers who visited Yangon two days ago.  I am happy to inform you that the library is running very well.  Ashin Dhammapiya visited the village a month ago with our board member, Daw Khin Hnin Oo, who is Yangon University librarian.  Dhammapiya offered a sermon about the value of library and books; membership registration increased dramatically after the Sayadaw’s [...]

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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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