From August 16-22, 2014 the 80^th World Library and Information Congress of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA WLIC 2014) was taken place in Lyon, Republic of France. Over 4,000 delegates from more than 120 countries participated in the Congress. Viet Nam sent 5 delegates. During the Congress, theme of the IFLA WLIC 2014 “Libraries, Citizens, Societies: Confluence for Knowledge” has been actively explored and discussed by library and information experts through more than 400 reports in 227 sessions. NLV delegates has actively participated in some focus activities of the IFLA WLIC 2014...

In accordance with the professional plan approved by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, from August 4 to 11, 2014, in Da Nang City, the National Library of Viet Nam organized a training course on the use of the Dewey Decimal Classification - Edition 23 in Vietnamese – DDC 23 in favor of the librarians in charge of cataloging at the information – library in the Center and Tay Nguyen Region. This is second of three courses at the North, Centre and the South. The first training course was held for library – information agencies, training institutions of the mountainous region in the North, North – West and Red River Delta had been organized in Hai Phong City in June 2014. The training course presented all important knowledge regarding the use of DDC23 which help the learners to understand the use of DDC with hierarchical structure and notations; becoming familiar with the different types of notes in DDC; to apply the basic principles for the right choice among the main potential numbers and techniques to add numbers from tables and adding tables to create classification number for a document.

On 4^th August 2014, at Da Nang City, the National Library of Viet Nam (NLV) organized the first symposium “Commentsand suggestions for the draft of Vietnamese standard: Library activities – Terms and definitions of acquisition and cataloging”. There were presented of Mr. Pham The Khang – President of Vietnam Library Association, representatives of provincal and city libraries, information centers and libraries of the universities from Da Nang to the South. Vietnamese standards are one of the important factors in assessing the quality and effectiveness of agencies and organizations in general and in the area of ​​the library – information in particular. Since 2012, with the approval of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the NLV has concentrated on efforts and knowledge, took the help of several organizations and individuals, complying with the Law on standards and technical regulation to develop national standards for termsand definitions used in library activities. Following the TCVN 10274:2013“Library activities – General terms and definitions” published in 2013, the NLV continues compiling Vietnamese standards “Library activities – Terminology and definitions of acquisition and cataloging”

To disseminate the spirit and content of the Constitution to all officers and employees of the institution, in the afternoon of the 26^th June 2014, NLV held a workshop to disseminate the Constitution 2013 presented by Dr. Hoang Minh Thai – Director General of the Legal Department, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. At the meeting, Dr. Hoang Minh Thai introduced the need to make amendments on the Constitution 1992; purposes, requirements, modified process, scopes of the Constitution and basic content of the Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam 2013.

On the 26^th June 2014, the National Library of Viet Nam (NLV) preliminary review the first 6 months of 2014. In thefirst 6 months of 2014, the NLV has actively implemented synchronously, effectively political tasks and work targets of the year, initiatives and solutions to improve quality of governance management, operations, using savings, rational, efficient allocation of funds, strengthening and expanding foreign affairs and international co-operation, many events have been organized gradually related to political, cultural, profound social and practical, security and safety for the institution etc. gradually overcome the limitations, challenges and difficulties, complete and outperforming the work targets, shown in some typical results such as: