To disseminate the spirit and content of the Constitution to all officers and employees of the institution, in the afternoon of the 26^th June 2014, NLV held a workshop to disseminate the Constitution 2013 presented by Dr. Hoang Minh Thai – Director General of the Legal Department, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. At the meeting, Dr. Hoang Minh Thai introduced the need to make amendments on the Constitution 1992; purposes, requirements, modified process, scopes of the Constitution and basic content of the Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam 2013.

On the 26^th June 2014, the National Library of Viet Nam (NLV) preliminary review the first 6 months of 2014. In thefirst 6 months of 2014, the NLV has actively implemented synchronously, effectively political tasks and work targets of the year, initiatives and solutions to improve quality of governance management, operations, using savings, rational, efficient allocation of funds, strengthening and expanding foreign affairs and international co-operation, many events have been organized gradually related to political, cultural, profound social and practical, security and safety for the institution etc. gradually overcome the limitations, challenges and difficulties, complete and outperforming the work targets, shown in some typical results such as:

Celebrating 40 years of diplomatic relations between Viet Nam and France, “Viet Nam - France Year 2014”, under approval of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Viet Nam, National Library of Viet Nam (NLV) coordinated with Xua and Nay Magazine held the exhibition titled Memory of Viet Nam 1895-1896. The exhibition introduced nearly 300 precious documents from Indochina collection among more than 2.5 million material items of NLV. They have been published as books, published in newspapers, magazines, and other special types of documents from the late nineteenth century to early twentieth century. In particular, the exhibition presented a historical source of precious photos of Viet Nam in the late nineteenth century, collection of photos taken during Armand Rousseau’s mission as Governor of Indochina (from February 1895 to December 1896). 200 typical photos have selected from ...

The 2^nd meeting of CONSAL XVI Executive Board held in Thailand as the annual meeting of Executive Board members of CONSAL, it was also the preparatory meeting of the Congress of librarians in Southeast Asia countries. The meeting was chaired by the Thai Library Association and National Library of Thailand, organized at the Kantary Hills Hotel, ChiangMai, Thailand from 7^th to 10^th 2014. At the meeting, participants proposed and discussed the main themes of the General Conference CONSAL XVI as the call for paper, CONSAL Outstanding librarians Awards, way of support and encouragement librarians participating in the General Conference etc.

In honor of the 124^th Anniversary of birthday of President Ho Chi Minh and the 60^th Anniversary of the historic victory of Dien Bien Phu , in the morning of 6^th May 2014, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism opened the Exhibition "Dien Bien Phu Victory through the material in the country and abroad” at the National Library of Viet Nam. The exhibition Exhibition "Dien Bien Phu Victory through the material in the country and abroad” introduced more than 800 items including books, newspapers, excerpts, photos. They are organized according to five themes: Context of the Dien Bien Phu campaign; Evolution of the Dien Bien Phu campaign; President Ho Chi Minh, General Vo Nguyen Giap and the Dien Bien Phu campaign through foreign materials; Dien Bien Phu - Symbol of the Strength of Viet Nam; Movies archive on the Dien Bien Phu Victory.

In the morning of 20^th April, the National Library of Viet Nam (NLV) opened the Book Festival Day 2014 on the theme "Book - From Past to Present" Mr. Huynh Vinh Ai – Vice Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Head of the Steering Committee of the Book Festival Day 2014 at the Temple of Literature and NLV; Mr. Truong Minh Tuan – Vice Minister of Information and Communication, Permanent Steering Committee of the Viet Nam Book Day 21^st April, attended and kicked off the festival. A new feature in the Book Festival Day 2014 is identification of the authors, works, and characters Contest for visitors. Thanks to the ingenious in carnation of the classic literature of Viet Nam and the world by artists, the audience will remember and be able to update information, knowledge of authors, works and representative figure.

On April 10, the General Assembly of the Francophone Digital Network met in Bern, capital of Switzerland. Under the chairmanship of Mr. Guy Berthiaume, Chairman and CEO of National Library and Archives of Quebec, Secretary General of Digital Francophone Network, representatives of 14 French-speaking countries highlighted the results achieved during the past year and discussed the action plan for this year. At the meeting, Sandra Coulibaly Leroy - representative of the International Organization of the Francophonie (OIF) re-affirmed the support of OIF for the protection and promotion of tangible and intangible heritage of the Francophone community. Digitalizing and sharing of resources contribute to the promotion of cultural exchanges, enhance mutual understanding and build a rich community identity.

On 26^th March 2014, National Library of Viet Nam in collaboration with the Goethe Institute Hanoiorganized Workshop on “Structuring Library Space”. Currently, Vietnamese Library career has been concentrated and invested in infrastructure. Many libraries including special, academic, public and school libraries have new buildings. Constructions methods are also various, some libraries are involved in all stages of construction process, couple of stages, othersare getting in the “handover the key”. Similar situations happened to equipment projects including project on IT application. It is necessary to do assessment on structuring the library space.

In the morning of 24^th March 2014, National Library of Viet Nam (NLV)and the Special Libraries Association – Asian Chapter (SLA) has opened the training course and experience sharing on traditional, digital materials and disaster management for more than 200 colleagues representing the city/provincial, academic, special libraries, information centers, National Agency for Science and Technology Information, State Records Management and Archives Department of Viet Nam, lecturers and researchers from Viet Nam, India, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka and Malaysia.

Conference CDNL-AO22 2014 held on 26-27 February 2014 at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, Australia. This is the third time that the National Library of Australia has hosted the event since the 1st Conference CDNL-AO in 1979. It was attended by officials from 18 national libraries of countries in Asia - Oceania including Australia, Brunei, Cook Islands, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Vanuatu and Viet Nam. The Delegation of the National Library of Viet Nam (NLV) was led by its Director, Mrs. Phan Thi Kim Dung