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25May
2011

Half-million books

in About the Project, Donations, Sponsors

This past week our 11th container shipped from Seattle bound for Yangon.  Thrift Books has fulfilled half of its million books pledge! May 3rd marked the third anniversary of Cyclone Nargis’ devastating pass across the Irrawaddy delta and Yangon. Family friends of a half-century were affected by this catastrophy, including U Thaw Kaung’s family who stepped forward to help libraries recover. Nargis Library Recovery is a personal response to aid villages, towns and monasteries;  after three years  I speak for [...]

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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

Daw Ah Win’s Comment on the Cochran Trip Report

in Tour Reports

Dear Bill, First of all your thoughts are very valuable.  I really want to know how you evaluated Myanmar’s current library development and what suggestions you have for the future.  These are the seeds and the plants can not come out without the seeds.  What follows is information for you as we did not have time for discussion during the trip. Partnership Concerning  our partnership, I would like to describe my role.  UNWG, Vienna, is not a partner with NLR [...]

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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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