Thaivisa News Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 Bangkok:- The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration will spend Bt200 million to develop a building at the Kokwua Intersection on Rajdamnoen Road as a 24-hour library, a senior BMA official said Thursday. Pranee Satayaprakorb, director of BMA’s Culture, Sports and Tourism Department, said the city administration is under commitment to operate a 24-hour City Library after the Thai capital was selected as the World Book Capital for 2013. She said the BMA will rent a building of the Crown Property Bureau at the Kokwua Intersection to run the City Library for 30 years. The building has three floors and it has a total usage area of 4,000 square meters. Pranee said the Crown Property Bureau has agreed to exempt the renting fee while the building is being renovated. The BMA will start paying the rent after the library is open to the public. Now, the BMA is in the process of signing the renting contract. Once the contract is signed, the BMA will call for tenders to renovate the building. The renovation can start this year because the BMA has already designed the library. After the renovation, the building will have modern style while identity of the old building will also be preserved. She said the library will be ready for serving the public in 2016 and it will be open on around the clock basis. All in all, the BMA is expected to spend Bt200 million for the development and the City Library will become an important landmark on Ratanakosin Island, she added. She added that BMA also planned to build a cartoon museum at the Thai-Japanese Youth Center in Din Daeng. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samsensam Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 hopefully they'll have some books/magazines/newspapers in english and wont charge entrance to the one group of people most likely to use a library in thailand, foreigners open 24 hours? why? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deserted Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 Many people like to read through the night, I expect you will see many sleeping students in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post PatOngo Posted March 5, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted March 5, 2015 The locals will be queueing for blocks in a mad frenzy to expand their knowledge 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NongKhaiKid Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 Seems an excessive expenditure to house comics. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ratcatcher Posted March 6, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted March 6, 2015 She added that BMA also planned to build a cartoon museum at the Thai-Japanese Youth Center in Din Daeng. The most significant announcement. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TallGuyJohninBKK Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 (edited) open 24 hours? why? the city administration is under commitment to operate a 24-hour City Library after the Thai capital was selected as the World Book Capital for 2013. That's quite a joke!!! Remember what happened with the abortive BMA futsal stadium (completed late and never used)?? Check back a year or two from now...and see if the library project went the same way. Or the fleet of new BKK fire engines (lost to corruption)... Or the thousands of long-promised natural gas fueled new buses (still not purchased) , Or the sidewalk bicycle path along Sukhumvit Road (abandoned) etc etc etc. Edited March 6, 2015 by TallGuyJohninBKK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Time Traveller Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 When my family and I immigrated to the USA, we were amazed by the public library system in America. Since then, I could never understand how Bangkok was selected as world book capital? (did officials need a reason to visit Bangkok?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lupatria Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 Many people like to read through the night, I expect you will see many sleeping students in it. Yeah and all those poor suckers with broken smartphones turn to read books... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lupatria Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 Seems an excessive expenditure to house comics. Wait when they negotiate with Disney to have a Mickey Mouse museum. You can't have enough education. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaiChai Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 While the rest of the world is closing libraries, probably because everything is on the Internet, Bangkok decides to open one! Does it ever cross ones mind that these projects are just a way to release government money so some of it can be skimmed off? Presumably it will be air conditioned so an ideal place for people to keep cool and not have to run up electricity bills? Guess it will make a change from shopping malls! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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