Background Index
The future library building - Nov 2000
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Devastation and a new beginnings - building a University and its library service from scratch. The background story of the UNTL Library Project.
Three months before the new National University of East Timor (UNTL) opened for classes in November 2000, there was no library at all. Within weeks, the beginnings of a library started to take shape in an empty classroom in a building still under reconstruction: [read more]
Almost the entire educational infrastructure in East Timor was looted, smashed and torched in the devastation following the Independence Referendum in 1999: [read more]
The entire annual education budget for East Timor is less than that of a major Australian University library. In 1999 90% of schools and the entire tertiary education sector was destroyed. Find out why the development of the UNTL Library is so important for the reconstruction of East Timor: [read more]
The aim of this Web site is to support all Australian and international efforts to assist the UNTL Library: [read more]
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