Tag: Library

by Hla Min

Updated : Aug 2025

U Khin Zaw

• Chief Librarian, Rangoon University Library
• Founder & Director of “Myanmar Ah Than” (Burma Broadcasting Service).
• Has a son (Ko Wint Khin Zaw) and four daughters.

U Thein Han / Zaw Gyi

• Co-founder of the “Khit San Sar Pay”
• Literary Award Winner
• Laureate Poet
• Succeeded U Khin Zaw as Chief Librarian of Rangoon University

U Thaw Kaung

• Succeeded U Thein Han as Chief Librarian of Rangoon University
• He and Saya U Ba Than (M) were the early supporters of the HMEE (History of Myanmar Engineering Education) project. He provided access to the library archives for Saya U Soe Paing (EE, UCC) and his team to compile an early draft for the HMEE-2012 book.

Libraries

Universities and Colleges around the world usually maintain libraries and offer cross-loans for rare books and documents.

There are Public Libraries and Private Libraries.

Before the Internet, most libraries use the Dewey Decimal System for cataloging books. Since the distribution of the books is not uniform, some books have several decimal digits following the original three digit category.

ISBN is used by major publishers. A Stanford University Arts Professor wanted to use “The Illustrated History of Buddhism ” by Ashin Janakabhivamsa (Taung Myo Sayadaw) and illustrated by Saya U Ba Kyi. Since the book did not have an ISBN, the book could not be ordered and sold through the University Book Store.

The Library of Congress has a large collection of books. It also has a section for books from Asian countries. The books in the Burma Collection are cataloged using phonetic transcription of the Burmese title.

U Win Pe (Maung Swan Yi) served as Secretary of the Burmese Curriculum and later studied Library Science. He wrote an article in Myanmar Gazette about collecting Burmese books for access via the New York libraries and the Library of Congress.