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Main Author: Huff, Michael
Format: Recurso educativo Open Access
Language:en
Published: 1998
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Online Access:https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ573883
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  • Librarians in Robes: The Monks of Wat Muniransyarama. Huff, Michael Buddhism Foreign Countries Higher Education Librarians Library Automation Library Networks Literacy Preservation Religious Libraries Describes the experience of an American Library Association (ALA) Fellow at Can Tho University (Vietnam) assisting Khmer monks at the library of Wat Muniransyarama (Temple of Intelligent Light) in designing and implementing a library automation system and network. Highlights the preservation of Khmer and Theravada Buddhist texts and the efforts of the monks to increase literacy outside the monastic community. (PEN)