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                  Internet Burma Library now available

Mizzima News (www.mizzima.com)

Sept. 28: An online database library with classified and annotated links
to thousands of full-text documents on Burma is now available. The
text-based Online Burma Library (OBL) ?http://www.burmalibrary.org/- is
"an evolving project designed to make full texts of Burma documents
accessible online to Burmese and non-Burmese researchers, academics,
journalists, etc.", said the Librarian in an email release today. "It
functions as a linked, annotated catalogue to much of the Burma material
already on the Internet and will eventually house a number of
archives..."

The library is divided into subject-wise categories such as Aung San Suu
Kyi, Civil Society, Drugs, Economy, Foreign Relations, Internal
Displacement, Military (Tatmadaw), Society and Culture, Women, Ethnic
groups in Burma, etc. which are also searchable in the "Alphabetical
list". Moreover, the library has the "Reading Room" where directories,
general information on Burma, portals, news sites, and Burma Community
homepages, etc. are available.

"The most important single document on OBL is The Burma Press Summary --
the searchable 17MB archive of Hugh MacDougall's excellent summary of
"The Working People's Daily" and "The New Light of Myanmar" from 1987 to
1996 -- containing many full texts of major SLORC/SPDC speeches,
decrees, laws etc." The two newspapers are published by the government
in Burma.

The database is MySQL, used in combination with PHP. The library is the
first of its kind available on Internet to the interested individuals
and organizations on Burma. (www.burmalibrary.org)



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<p><i><font color="#FF0000">Mizzima News <a href="http://www.mizzima.com";>(www.mizzima.com)</a></font></i>
<p>Sept. 28: An online database library with classified and annotated links
to thousands of full-text documents on Burma is now available. The text-based
Online Burma Library (OBL) ?<a href="http://www.burmalibrary.org";>http://www.burmalibrary.org/-</a>
is "an evolving project designed to make full texts of Burma documents
accessible online to Burmese and non-Burmese researchers, academics, journalists,
etc.", said the Librarian in an email release today. "It functions as a
linked, annotated catalogue to much of the Burma material already on the
Internet and will eventually house a number of archives..."
<p>The library is divided into subject-wise categories such as Aung San
Suu Kyi, Civil Society, Drugs, Economy, Foreign Relations, Internal Displacement,
Military (Tatmadaw), Society and Culture, Women, Ethnic groups in Burma,
etc. which are also searchable in the "Alphabetical list". Moreover, the
library has the "Reading Room" where directories, general information on
Burma, portals, news sites, and Burma Community homepages, etc. are available.
<p>"The most important single document on OBL is The Burma Press Summary
-- the searchable 17MB archive of Hugh MacDougall's excellent summary of
"The Working People's Daily" and "The New Light of Myanmar" from 1987 to
1996 -- containing many full texts of major SLORC/SPDC speeches, decrees,
laws etc." The two newspapers are published by the government in Burma.
<p>The database is MySQL, used in combination with PHP. The library is
the first of its kind available on Internet to the interested individuals
and organizations on Burma. <a href="http://www.burmalibrary.org";>(www.burmalibrary.org)</a>
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