NATIONAL LIBRARY OF VIETNAM

On 8^th October 2012, in the National Library of Vietnam (NLV), the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) has held a Seminar on “Reading culture and Book Reading Festival Day in Vietnam”. This is one in many activities in celebrating the 60^th Anniversary of the establishment of Vietnam Publishing-Printing-Issuing Sector (10/10/1952-10/10/2012). This seminar focused on the prominent issues such as: the current state and guidelines of reading culture and, the Party’s policies, the State’s legislation policies on reading culture; the trends of developing reading culture in the coming time; the theoretical and practical basis to select “Vietnam Book Reading Day”.

On 27^th September 2012, H.E. Mr. Ranjit Rea – Ambassador of India to Viet Nam has directly donated National Library of Viet Nam (NLV) about 200 books which was collected by the Ambassador in U.S., Europe and South Africa etc., covering many subject areas introduced culture, homeland, people of India and other countries around the world, in different languages. This is not only the first time the Ambassador donating books, pictures and materials to the National Library of Viet Nam.

On 25^th September 2012, the National Library of Vietnam (NLV) and the Asia Foundation have signed in Agreement of Co-operation period 2012-2015. According to the Agreement period of 2012-2015, the Asia Foundation to continue donating 120,000 books valued at 5,8 million USD to Vietnamese libraries with commitment that 100% of new books are funded in many subject areas and covered different levels of education which included e-book and CD-ROM. Beneficiary institutions in this project period including public, university, special libraries etc. among them, NLV will be the focal point agency of the Foundation to receive and distribute donated books to other beneficiary institutions.