(29 August 2013) Beyond Access has announced a new partnership with the City Government of Davao, Philippines and the Davao City Library to support the City Government in its efforts to transform its libraries into centers for economic opportunity. After attending the Beyond Access 2012 conference, the Davao City Library hosted a series of public…
(30 July 2013) When the world’s librarians gather in Singapore at IFLA’s World Library and Information Congress in August, Beyond Access will be there to share and learn the latest on how public libraries are contributing to development goals. How are libraries helping make governments more transparent? How are they bringing women into political discussions?…
“Our people are avid readers,” said Thant Thu Zar Maung of the Myanmar Book Aid and Preservation Foundation, as she showed Beyond Access a small school library bustling with children in June. “We just need more to read.” The school in Thanlyn, a town 30 kilometers east of the capital, Yangon, is run by Buddhist…
A team from Beyond Access visited Myanmar recently to gain an understanding of the potential for the country’s 5,000 libraries to contribute to development goals. A country brief is the result of that visit. Beyond Access examines key elements of Myanmar’s rapid development and highlights the essential role of public libraries in the development process.…
Which country is Asia has nearly five thousand public libraries and is aiming to have a library in each of its 60,000 villages? The answer is Myanmar. At a time when libraries of all sorts in all countries are having difficult times, the Myanmar government with the help of philanthropists and donors is forging ahead to…
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