The earthquake and tsunami disaster on March 11 has caused hard consequences on the lives of thousands of Japanese people. In order to share the pain and huge loss of the Japanese, all official and staff of the National Library of Vietnam (NLV) with mutual love and affection, noble humanistic tradition of Vietnam and the spirit of the Vietnam – Japan friendship, voluntarily contributed 1 day’s salary to support Japanese victims, especially to whom directly affected by the disaster. Hopefully, the small gift from the NLV will partly help them overcome tribulation and quickly stabilize their lives. Concurrently, the NLV extends deep sympathy and encouragement to library colleagues in Japan

Under the agreement, District 5160 will immediately provide the Academy of Reading software as needed to operate a reading and writing English language program at the NLV on ten workstations concurrently in a time frame of three years (from March 2011 until March 2014); from its side, NLV will provide adequate technology resources (workstations, power and high bandwidth internet access) to run the Academy of Reading software at the Multimedia room of the NLV. Direct recipients to this program include NLV staff and readers. It is planned that, Academy of Reading software will be available to readers by early April 2011 at the Multimedia Room during the normal hours of operation of the library.