(4 Feb 2022) Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) will name its library The Ngee Ann Kongsi Library and establish The Ngee Ann Kongsi Emergence Fund in recognition of this endowed gift – the biggest donation it has ever received to-date. The Ngee Ann Kongsi has formalised its intention to make a generous endowed gift…
(16 November 2017) For nearly two decades, BDRC has sought out and preserved Buddhist literature in its digital library, making over 13.5 million pages of texts freely available online. Now, BDRC is taking the next step in its mission to greatly expand access to the treasures of Buddhist cultural heritage—and you can help! BDRC is…
Asia Foundation Powers access to minority language children’s books (August 2017, Chiang Mai, Thailand) In the mountainous regions of Northern Thailand, books are rare commodities, and children’s books in languages other than standard Thai are almost non-existent. For speakers of S’gaw Karen, a minority language spoken by nearly one million people primarily living in mostly…
(1 June 2017) Leading Australian businesswoman Christine Christian has donated $2 million to State Library Victoria to establish Start Space – a new centre to support early-stage entrepreneurs, the first of its kind in Victoria. Part of the Library’s Vision 2020 redevelopment, Start Space will provide emerging entrepreneurs with free access to resources, services, programs…
(10 June 2015) The American Library Association is partnering with READ Global (Rural Education and Development) libraries, other NGOs and other government organizations in Nepal to collect monetary donations, which will be sent to continue leading the relief effort. The Nepal Library Relief Fund will help to rebuild libraries and archives in Nepal that were destroyed…
(30 April 2015) READ Nepal establishes community library and resource centers (READ Centers) by partnering with rural communities where a majority of women are illiterate, and most families live below the poverty line. All of the 59 READ Centers are owned and operated by the local community. Each Center has a library, computer room, women’s…
(29 April 2015) On 24 April 2015, Dr. Verapong Chaiperm, Governor of Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand (IEAT), presented a cheque of 500,000 Thai Baht to the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) on behalf of IEAT as a substantial donation to the ongoing AIT Library Modernization Campaign. The donation was supplemented with another 500,000 Baht…
(12 April 2015) Telecom major Advanced Info Service Plc (AIS) has donated two million Baht [USD 66,000] towards the library modernization campaign of the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand. CEO of AIS Mr. Somchai Lertsutiwong handed over the cheque to AIT President Prof. Worsak Kanok-Nukulchai in a ceremony organized at the Intouch Towers on…
(10 April 2015) In the past few months, the National Library Board of Singapore, the Library Association of Singapore, the National Library of Myanmar and the Library Association of Myanmar have been working together to bring 50,000 used library books from Singapore libraries to libraries in Myanmar. 40,000 of these books were presented to the…
(March 2015) When the ferocious waters of the 2011 flood struck the library of the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) in Thailand in November 2011, no one could have imagined the extent of loss suffered to its prestigious library. The entire ground floor of the library was inundated, with precious books and theses lost forever.…