With the aim to celebrate 105^th Birthday of General Vo Nguyen Giap (25/8/1911-25/8/2016), the National Library of Viet Nam opened a Documentary gallery conveying the following contents: General Vo Nguyen Giap with the resistance against France and the battle of Dien Bien Phu; General Vo Nguyen Giap with the resistance against America and the construction of socialism; General Vo Nguyen Giap – the legendary human being. More than 400 documents of books, newspapers and magazines are displayed mentioning various aspects, fields of the life and career of General which includes many memoirs; chronicles with profound studies about General and are published in newspapers, magazines along with the 1.000 page thick books of many authors and publishers. Particularly, these military-political memoirs, essays of General will help readers better understand about General Vo Nguyen Giap, his personality and great dedication in his fighting career - a national hero being loved and admired by people throughout the country and international friends.

From August 13-19, 2016, the 82^nd annual congress of International Federation of library associations and institutions (IFLA) has taken place in Columbus, Ohio, United States of America with the theme: “Connections. Collaboration. Community”. This congress brought together nearly 4,000 library - information leaders and experts from 145 countries in the world. Right after the congress’s opening ceremony, hundreds of papers were presented in 228 sessions. Topics presented at the congress aimed at building a developed global library network, at the same time, raise the issue of tighter cooperation among every member countries to jointly solve all challenges of the era successfully. In particular, the congress emphasized the tasks and roles of national libraries in the digital age; their contributions to lead the sustainable development goals by implementing library laws, boosting the activities of exploring information resources in the libraries, building digital collections, conducting library marketing, cataloguing, preservation, and cooperation of precious collections sharing, connecting the global information network... in each country.

In order to extensively propagate to readers and public about the location, enormous stature, great historical value of The August Revolution and the Birth of the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam, the National Library of Viet Nam opened the Documentary Gallery with the theme: Celebrating 71 years of the August Revolution and the National Day of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam (1945 - 2016) with more than 300 documents of books, newspapers and magazines selected according to 4 contents: The Pre-Insurgency Period; The General uprising and The first independence days; President Ho Chi Minh – The Founder and Leader of Viet Nam Revolution; and Viet Nam’s achievements after 71 years of construction and development. The exhibited documentary materials have fully generalized contents, victory values of The 1945 August Revolution which is attached to the historical events, images of famous people, heroes, country songs and achievements attained during the national reconstruction in the past 71 years.

In the afternoon of August 10, 2016, the delegation of Laos Publishing Department and National Library (NLL) headed by Mrs. Bouakhay Phenphachanh - Director of the Publishing Department paid a working visit to the National Library of Viet Nam (NLV). Accompanying the delegation were Mrs. Doan Quynh Dzung – Vice Director of the Library Department, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Viet Nam. To the NLV side, Mr. Nguyen Xuan Dung – Vice Director and representatives of some divisions jointly received the delegation. At the reception, Mrs. Bouakhay expressed her thanks to the sentiment and supports of the NLV for NLL over the years and announced new progresses that they have achieved such as building new modern NLL headquaters; receiving legal deposit publications of all kinds... On this occasion, NLL hoped to restore the material exchange relationship between two libraries and receive the NLV’s  training support for operating and managing modern libraries. The Laos’ side also proposed to sign a Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation between two libraries as a foundation for implementing related activities in the coming period.

From 28^th – 29^th July, 2016, the 1^st Meeting of Congress of Southeast Asian Librarians (CONSAL) XVII has taken place in Yangon (Myanmar) with the participation of more than 50 delegates and observers from: Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Viet Nam, Timor Leste and the host country Myanmar. Vietnamese delegation attending the 1^st Meeting includes 03 delegates from the National Library of Viet Nam and Viet Nam Library Association. After 16times of Congress since establishment and development, CONSAL has truly become one of the most prestigious professional organizations regarding library aspect in the region. In the Meeting, besides annual activities like reports on operational updates from country members, reports on progress of common CONSAL programs and projects, delegates and observers have spent a great amount of time to lively discuss on the arising issues such as: Calendar of operation from each CONSAL country; CONSAL’s strategic vision in the future; Theme and logo of CONSAL XVII; Key goals in the period of 2016-2019 and Proposed activities to celebrate 50^th Anniversary of ASEAN 2017.