NATIONAL LIBRARY OF VIETNAM

“Read Me a Book” is a reading aloud program strongly implemented by the National Library of Viet Nam (NLV) during the last time to celebrate the Viet Nam Book Day 2020 and spread the values of experiencing reading with children, especially in the days when the whole country is implementing social isolation to prevent Covid-19 pandemic. The “Read Me a Book” campaign organizes reading promotion events and sharing posts of photos and video clips of reading aloud programs led by storytellers on social media with the view to create an overall and tangible effect, contributing to the promotion of reading culture, encouraging reading movement, expanding the reading aloud activities to all people, especially among children, thereby help them access to each book, develop their thinking, imagination and realize the value of companion with book, promote the reading enjoyment, arouse the love for books and develop the reading culture.

On March 27, 2020, the National Library of Viet Nam (NLV) held a meeting to implement the projectof developing the National Standard TCVN: Information and Documentation – Open systems Interconnection – Interlibrary Loan Application Service Definition, led by MAKieu Thuy Nga, NLV Director. The project is developed on the basis of accepting ISO 10160:2015 Information and documentation– Open Systems Interconnection– Interlibrary Loan Application Service Definition.The development of this standard derives from the actual needs,when the industrial revolution 4.0 is taking place strongly, in which “connection” and “linking” of data information is the key factor, becoming solutions to connectinformation systems for e-government and for automated information analysis systems… In library activities, interlibrary loan is an important service for library users as well as for each library-information institution in Viet Nam when budget for acquisition activity is limited and it is necessary to strengthen the ability to exploit the available sources. Interlibrary loan service and data communication among libraries and between libraries and other information systems in Viet Nam are very few and limited due to the lack of consensus on understanding and specific regulations and guiding documents for implementing this service.

Within the framework of activities to celebrate the founding day of the Communist Party of Viet Nam, on February 3, 2020, the National Library of Viet Nam (NLV) was honored to welcome comrade Nguyen Xuan Phuc – Politburo Member, Prime Minister to visist the Book Exhibition celebrating the 90th founding anniversary of the Communist Party of Viet Nam, hosted by the Ministry of Information and Communications, in collaboration with the Central Propaganda and Training Department and the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. Also attending the visit were Mr. Vo Van Thuong – Politburo Member, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Head of Central Propaganda and Training Department, Mr. Mai Tien Dung – Member of the Party Central Committee, Chairman of the Office of the Government, comrade Nguyen Ngoc Thien – Member of the Party Central Committee, Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, comrade Nguyen Manh Hung – Member of the Party Central Committee, Minister of Information and Communications, comrade Hoang Vinh Bao – Deputy Minister of Information and Communications, President of Vietnamese Publishing Association.