NATIONAL LIBRARY OF VIETNAM

Implementing the 2019 plan, from December 9-12, 2019, the Vietnamese Library Association of Southern Academic Libraries in collaboration with the University of Finance and Marketing Library organized a training course on using the cataloguing rules Resource Description and Access (RDA) – Vietnamese edition with the National Library of Viet Nam as the trainers. Attending the training course were managing officials and cataloguers of universities and colleges in the Southern region. The training course introduced important knowlege about RDA cataloguing rules, such as: overview about RDA, structure and management principles; relationships with other standards on resource description and access; usage of guidelines and instructions in RDA to record attributes of manifestations and items, attributes of works and expressions, attributes of persons, families and corporate bodies, attributes of concepts, objects, events and places; the basics of relationships between entities in RDA...

On December 10, 2019, a Book presentation ceremony from the National Library of Korea to the National Library of Viet Nam (NLV) under the “Window on Viet Nam” – a component of the “Window on Korea” project took place in Ha Noi. Attending the ceremony were Ms. Park Hyejin– Director of Korean Cultural Center in Ha Noi, Ms. Nguyen Ngoc Anh, Mr. Nguyen Xuan Dung – Deputy Directors of the NLV and managing officials of the library divisions, students of Korean studies – university of social sciences and humanities (Ha Noi National University). With the experience of implementing major projects in receiving books, the NLV has been actively maintaining and expanding the exchange and cooperation relations with libraries and information centers at home and abroad to supplement and enrich the foreign language resources of the library. Since 2005, the “Window on Korea” project has been officially launched at the NLV. Over the past ten years, many books have been donated by the National Library of Korea to the NLV’s readers. So far, the total number of books received by the NLV has reached to over 9,000 items.

On November 26, 2019, a presentation ceremony of theGuamán Poma de Ayala Artworks by Embassy of the Republic of Peru to the National Library of Viet Nam (NLV) took place at the NLV. Attending the ceremony were Mr. Tran Nhat Hoang – Deputy Director General of the International Cooperation Department, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism; Mr. Augusto Morelli Salgado– Ambassador of the Republic of Peru to Viet Nam; Mr. Nguyen Xuan Dung – NLV Deputy Director, leaders and managing officials of the NLV, Ambassadors of Colombia, Mexico, Czech Republic; representatives of Uruguay and Chile embassies, staff of Peru embassy, and the library readers. Viet Nam and Peru have been close partners for many years. The NLV has always been selected as the destination to promote culture exchange, introduce and popularize literature, culture, cuisine and tourism of Peru through activities of donating books, journals and magazines.