On the occasion of the 40^th year of diplomatic relations between Vietnam and Austria, on June 15^th, 2012, National Library of Vietnam (NLV) has coordinated with the Embassy of Austria in Vietnam to hold an exhibition “Gustav Klimt – Forerunner of Modernism – 150th  Anniversary” in Hanoi. Besides displaying the Painter Gustav Klimt’s unique artworks in 15 large size and high quality colored-posters, the exhibition also introduced about his road to the art, his representations, ideas, his art development and also the controversy about his art or private life.

On May 5th, 2012, Pakistan Ambassador in Vietnam, Mr. Shahid M.G. Kiani has directly awarded two titles “Pakistan Folk Stories” and “The tales of Pakistan Children” with 300 books for National Library of Vietnam (NLV) and other libraries in Vietnam.This is the second time that the Ambassador himself has given books to NLV and other libraries in Vietnam with the hope that these books will be brought to young readers in Vietnam, especially those who are in difficult areas.

On 11th May, 2012, “European Literature Days”, which has twice taken place, was raised at National Library of Vietnam with various exciting activities. This literature event was started with an Exhibition which presented more than 300 typical literature works of writers, poets and philosophers, … from United Kingdom, Poland, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, France, Spain. They are stored at National Library of Vietnam and translated into Vietnamese by Vietnamese and foreign translators.

Towards the 60^th anniversary of the traditional day of book Publishing – Printing and Distributing Sector of Vietnam and the 95 years anniversary of the National Library of Vietnam (NLV), under the approval of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Vietnam, NLV has jubilant organized the Reading Festival with the theme “Books-Knowledge: Origination of Success” on 21^st April 2012. The Reading Festival included many diverse activities, be renewed for content quality and format to continue affirming the great value of reading, honoring authors, works, publishing profession, printing, distribution and library sector in Vietnam....

In the morning of 12 March, 2012, the National Library of Vietnam (NLV) in cooperation with The Asia Foundation (U.S.A) launched the two-day training course on “Enhancement of reader service provision for Books for Asia recipient libraries in Vietnam” for over 76 librarians of recipient libraries in the North and North Central provinces of Vietnam under the Books for Asia program (BFA program) funded by The Asia Foundation (TAF). The training course takes place in two days (12-13 March 2012) in the framework of the BFA program for Vietnamese libraries in the period of 2009-2012.