Keep Wisdom Alive
Preserve an Endangered Text at the National Library of Mongolia
Keep Wisdom Alive
The National Library of Mongolia is a cultural heritage treasure of Asian wisdom literature. The collection itself, and the contents within, represent a national cultural heritage. We have an exciting window of opportunity to preserve this treasure and make it widely available to the Mongolian people, and to the world. Preserving an endangered text at the National Library of Mongolia, keeps wisdom alive.
The Treasure House of the National Library of Mongolia
The National Library contains 41,000 volumes of precious manuscripts. With one scanning station, we can scan 500 volumes in one year. With 4 stations currently ramping up to 16 stations by year three, it will take six years to complete the entire collection, starting in 2019. We have a very willing administration that is eager for us to complete the project over the next six years. It is very important to meet this window of opportunity while we can, because political and social changes can affect our access over the longer term.
Project Costs
$466,000 per year covers direct project costs for computer and scanning equipment, office expenses and local staffing. $200,000 per year covers technical assistance, including professional staff time and international travel for ACIP home office staff based in Sedona, AZ USA. Total project costs, therefore, are $666,000 per year. With 41,000 volumes to be preserved over the next six years, it costs $100 to preserve a single volume. 20% processing and transaction costs brings the total cost to $120 to preserve one volume.
Campaign
Our cultural preservation work has very concrete outcomes. Our campaign strategy is to connect individual people with individual volumes of manuscripts and block prints. If donors have a personal connection to actual manuscripts, it will make our preservation effort more transparent.
There are different levels of donations: text and collection donations. Text Donors can make a one-time gift to preserve one text volume, and Collection Donors can make a one-time gift to preserve 108 volumes.
- Preserve a Text – $120 preserves one text volume.
- Preserve a Collection – $12,000 preserves 108 volumes.
- Wisdom Keeper – significant donations of $50,000 and above, please contact the Executive Director, John Brady.
Donation Gateway
Please visit our donation gateway to preserve an endangered text.
Donor Acknowledgement
The donor’s name will be entered into the cataloging record and shown on the National Library of Mongolia website, the ACIP and BDRC website. It is traditional to acknowledge the donor’s name as a display of gratitude for their generosity.
ACIP would like to acknowledge the generosity of the following donors
Wisdom Keepers
Collection Donors
Rachal Huang
Hiro Liao
Text Donors
- 姵甄, PENG PEI-CHEN
- 歐瑋真, WEI-CHEN OU
- 林啟旭, CHI-HSU ,LIN
- Taiwan Association of Volunteering Angel
- 張沛緁, ZHANG, PEI-JIE
- 吳敦煌, WU,DUN-HUANG
- 黃欣茹, Hsin-Ju Huang
- 林以婕, Yi-jie Lin
- 林丞峰, LIN,CHENG-FENG
- Gary Lin
- 程信淵
- 程博琮
- 程博祥
- 蔡家宜
- 陳芯怡
- 潘毓浩
- 陳毓琳
- 潘品均
- 柯博仁
- 潘品薇
- 陳宏毅
- 謝舒閔
- 高庭均
- Alex Cheok Lun Hua
- 朱愛琪 朱宗榮 黃雅淑
- Hsingju, Julia, Tseng
- Lei Chao Ming
- 陳慧姿
- 郭鎌毅
- Sugeng Shi & Xintian Ie
- Aaron Shi, Alison Shi, Alston Shi
- Nursulu
- Rose & Alfred Sperber
- Sarahni Stumpf
- Lobsang Kading Kat Ehrhorn
- Valerie R. Dorn
- Jampa Utpala
- Antje Reichert
- Javier Barron
- Charlotte Hageman
- GDC, Johor Bahru, Malaysia
- Fish Ng Teng Yen, 黄艇雁
- Ria
- Norita Chung
- TZU-HUA-CHIU、RUEI-MAN-CHEN
- Lin Wen Yi
- Vesta Hung
- HUI TZU’S STRDY GROUP
- CHEN JENG JUNG
- Yung-hwa Ho
- Jack Pham
- CHANG YIHSIANG
- Chen Su chen
- WANG, CHAO-PIN
- Kang-Run-Kai
- KUO TING YIN、KUO TING YU、KUO HSIEH CHUN、LIN MEI YUEH
- LING-YU YU
- OU Wei-chen
- 楊玉惠
- Tomi Wang, Josephine Tu
- Bianca Wang ,Max Ho,Thomas Ho,Nancy Ho,Jennie Tsai – 48
- CHEN,YI-CHEN/張春
- Sam Tsai
- Jennie Hu
- Vickie Shen
- Mars Hsu
- Tsai Pen
- LIAO,HSIEN-YI
- HSIEH, TSAI-NI
- 李佳紋
- 王立人
- 洪上玉
- 沈楊金花沈勝雄
- 林美君
- 周采璇
- 林亮妘
- 張沛緁
- 吳敦煌
- 莊淯丞
- 陳丁一
- 杜婉君
- 姚旭
- 曹湧
- 釋法肇，朱美美
- 鄭詩諭
- 游婷婷
- 吳林文子
- 駱俊良 駱江彥珠
- 廖志剛
- 何秀琴
- 陳霖政
- 黃忠義、歐陽英
- 陳怡伶
- 蔡吉忠
- 陳霖政
- 陳彥妤
- LIAO,HSIEN-YI
- Andrea Tuettelmann
- Linda Senger
- Susanna Reuther
- 周采璇
- 李秀枝
- 鄭明承
- 李王月宏
- 社團法人天使協會
- Mathew Jhuang
- 周新民
- 蔡明達 /蔡宜岑 /蔡翔宇/ 黃瀞瑩
- 張可翰
- 游翔惠
- 陳盈如
- 馮仟澔
- 黃敏華
- 粘哲綸
- 袁筱晴
- 張竣閔
- 張崇鳴
- 游登宇
- 元圓商店
- 賴品君
- 謝詒媛
- 劉文英
- 林秀芬
- 陳亦萲
- 許曜欐
- Florian Thurner
- Bernd Buchwald
- LIM AH KOW
- Prokhorova Alena
- Tania Nuñez
- Anna Okas
- Lobsang Kading Kat Ehrhorn
- Nai Puay Guan & Chiner Ko
- Daniel Popov
- Keith C. Knapp
- Monique Bongers
- Leah Kreger
- XIAOPING ZHOU
- P’ng Hui Pin, 方惠宾
- Nancy Giovinazzo
- Sydny Ang
- Harliandy Salim
- Kelly Magee
- Low Yeng Ying
- Patric Valicenti
- Yoppie Sagita
- Alvin Kurniawan
- JOO YEE KHOO
- Keely Han
- Basia Gorska
- 謝明進
- 謝志駿
- 謝函岑
- 陳世豪
- 陳語緗
- 盧冠宏
- 王君鑫
- 周聖豪
- 曾佩宜
- 張簡石柱
- 陳張月女
- 陳張月女
- 張鳳元
- 張黃純靜
- 張程凱
- 張燿麟
- 張燿麟
- 張家瑄
- 張庭亨
- 張家芬
- 張氏歷代祖先
- 姜亮宇
- 馮瑮萱
- 李金雪
- 林小琪
- 葉佳芳
- 李麗君
- 邱荷硯
- 蔡孟剛
- 蔡騰慶