(6 October 2015) In September, IREX partnered with IFLA and the New York Public Library to host a discussion about access to information and the Sustainable Development Goals. During the event, librarian Myat Sann Nyein shared her experience leveraging libraries for community development in Myanmar. During the darkest years of the former regime, information was…
10 December 2015) The Myanmar Libraries Foundation last month opened a book stand on Platform 1 of Yangon’s central railway station, for the benefit of regular commuters who enjoy reading while waiting for the train. “Almost every town in Myanmar has a self-help library founded by our foundation. However, there are many ordinary people earning…
(28 August 2015) Myanmar is in the early stages of recovering from devastating floods that have displaced 384,900 households and affected more than 1.6 million people. While the government and relief organizations have organized a strong response to the floods, access to food, health services, and communications is still limited in many remote villages and…
(23 July 2015) For over a year now, 166,000 students and 4,000 academic staff at seven universities in Myanmar have had round-the-clock access to more than 10,000 scholarly journals and 130,000 academic books. An e-library project led by the international NGO Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL) is providing instant access to resources across all disciplines…
(20 June 2015, Pyay, Myanmar) A crowd of children reach for books on a full shelve and start reading their selections on sheets and benches placed in the shade of trees on a school ground. In early April, the “mobile library on wheels,” operated by a local public library, arrived at this elementary school in…
Librarian wins Citizen of Burma Award (23 June 2015) The books, thousands of them, stretch from floor to ceiling. If the librarian thinks not enough people are borrowing them, he will get on his bike and deliver a basketful to readers. There is no charge. In fact, he has been known to pay people to…
(27 May 2015) EIFL reports that as Myanmar emerges from five decades of economic and political isolation, the government is taking measures to open up the economy and to introduce legal and social reforms across a wide range of sectors. Trade-related legislation such as competition and consumer protection laws are being revised, and comprehensive new…
(20 May 2015) EIFL – in association with the University of Mandalay and the University of Yangon – will organize a series of seminars on open access as a part of the EIFL eLibrary Myanmar project. A guest speaker – Fred Chan, Research and Data Services Librarian, the University of Hong Kong Libraries – will…
(9 May 2015) The Endangered Archives Programme offers a number of grants every year to individual researchers world-wide to locate vulnerable archival collections, to arrange their transfer wherever possible to a suitable local archival home, and to deliver digital copies into the international research domain via the British Library. The specific focus of this Programme…
(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…
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