In celebration of the Viet Nam Book and Reading Culture Day April 21 and World Book and Copyright Day April 23, on April 15, 2022, the National Library of Viet Nam (NLV) in cooperation with ministries, branches, international organizations, libraries, schools, publishers, bookstores, businesses... organized the Book and Reading Culture Festival 2022 with the theme: "Culture Revival and Development of Reading Culture". Continuing to inherit and promote the Book Festival's recent successes, the event was organized flexibly this year in the context of the complicated development of the Covid 19 epidemic, with various forms such as: live activities, live activities combined with online livestreams, activities held remotely in line with the actual situation and still bring positive social effects.

The National Library of Vietnam (NLV) conducted a meeting on March 18, 2022, to implement the project of developing the National Standards "Document management - Electronic document file format for long-term preservation," which is managed by MLS Kieu Thuy Nga – NLV’s Director. This Standard was created in response to the current requirement for data management and storage. Along with the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the aggressive implementation of national digital transformation, growing the diversity of digital resources, and conserving electronic records, poses new and pressing issues for archivists. In order for documents to be utilized as legal evidence, their content, context, and structure, which exist independently of the media in the technological environment, must be maintained. Managing the media on its own will not suffice. As a result, agreement on a common electronic document file format that satisfies the needs of long-term preservation is required.

On the morning of January 27, 2022, at the National Library of Viet Nam (NLV), the Embassy of Kazakhstan in Viet Nam presented 100 books entitled “Kazakh fairy tales” to the NLV and through the NLV to libraries throughout the country. This book is published by the Embassy of Kazakhstan in Viet Nam in collaboration with Kim Dong Publishing House. Attending the book presentation ceremony, representing the Embassy of Kazakhstan, there were Mr. Baizhanov Yerlan – Ambassador, Mr. Urazbayev Arman – Third Secretary; On the NLV side, there were Ms. Kieu Thuy Nga – Director, Ms. Bui Thi Thuy – Head of Acquisition and Exchange Division and officials of the two agencies. On behalf of the NLV, Ms. Kieu Thuy Nga – Secretary of the Party Committee, Director of the NLV expressed her respect for the meaningful gift presented by the Embassy of Kazakhstan. The NLV is committed to bringing the donated books to readers as soon as possible. This is a very meaningful spiritual gift that will surely attract the attention and love of a large number of young readers. At the same time, the NLV will share the book with the entire public library system nationwide to help them have more resources to serve children’s readers.

On the morning of January 4, 2022, the National Library of Viet Nam (NLV) presented 1,200 books to the Library-Documentation Center, under the Department for Judicial Affairs and Scientific Management, the Supreme People’s Court (SPC). This is a regular activity of the NLV to support materials for agencies under ministries, and libraries across the country in order to spread, inspire and develop reading culture in the community and society. At the ceremony, the NLV presented more than 1,200 copies of books covering many fields, of which about 750 books are in Vietnamese, 450 books are in such foreign languages as Russian, English, Chinese, Korean, and some Korean-English bilingual books. In addition to more than 500 copies of books on the field of law, the NLV also selected and presented books on many different fields such as politics, history, culture, literature, arts, sciences, education, medicine, common sense...

On the afternoon of December 3, 2021, the National Library of Viet Nam in collaboration with the Wallonia-Brussels General Delegation to Viet Nam, held the opening of the French-speaking Belgian Literature Day. The ceremony was co-chaired by Ms. Kieu Thuy Nga, Director of the National Library of Viet Nam(NLV), and Mr. Nicolas Dervaux, Representative of the Government of the French-speaking Belgian Community and the Government of the Wallonia Region of Belgium in Viet Nam. Among those at the event were Mr. Tran Nhat Hoang, Deputy Director of the International Cooperation Department, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Viet Nam; Mr. Paul Jansen, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Belgium to Viet Nam; and Mr. Chékou Oussouman, Director of the Asia – Pacific Region, International Organization of La Francophonie; translators, lecturers, and students of French from several universities in Ha Noi, as well as representatives from a number of publishers, press, and television agencies,were also in attendance.

On the afternoon of November 27, 2021, the National Library of Viet Nam (NLV) received and worked with the delegation of the Law Commission of the National Assembly (LCNA) on surveying the practice of implementing provisions of the intellectual property legislation at the NLV. At the meeting, Ms. Kieu Thuy Nga, Director of the NLV, presented a report on the implementation of the Intellectual Property Law at the NLV. The Report outlined the main contents on the implementation of intellectual property law provisions at the Library in the construction, development, exploitation, and sharing of information resources, in equipment and use of computer software, in the Library's products and operations; advantages, difficulties, and recommendations, proposals to improve the intellectual property law. At the same time, the delegates gave ideas to strengthen the draft Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Intellectual Property Law, as well as measures to execute the Law once it is adopted by the National Assembly.

On the morning of November 26, 2021, Mr. Hans-Peter Glanzer - Ambassador of the Republic of Austria to Viet Nam paid a working visit to the National Library of Viet Nam (NLV). Ms. Kieu Thuy Nga - NLV Director received the delegation. At the working session, Director Kieu Thuy Nga expressed her pleasure to welcome Ambassador Hans-Peter Glanzer, who recently received his assignment in Viet Nam. She took the time to briefly introduce the establishment and development history of the NLV, its information resources,and some outstanding cooperation activities between the NLV and embassies, international organizations in Viet Nam over the past time, including the joint events with the Embassy of the Republic of Austria. Ambassador Hans-Peter Glanzer expressed hisinterest in the tasks and functions of the NLV, especially the legal deposit function, user services, as well as theNLV’s collections and preservation activity. He also highly appreciated the cooperation results of the NLV and embassies of different countries in Ha Noi, and propose cooperation between the two sides in the coming time.

The second executive board meeting of Congress of Southeast Asian Librarians (CONSAL XVIII) chaired by the host country Cambodia was held online on October 22, 2021. At the meeting,thedelegates approved the minute of the first CONSAL XVIII Executive Board meeting taking place in Cambodia in 2019 and discussed contents related to the CONSAL XVIII General Congress in the coming time: format of the conference, time, registration fee, logo, theme, main topics of sessions… The general congress of CONSAL XVIII is scheduled to be held on November 7-8, 2022. However, due to the complicated situation of the COVID-19 pandemic in many countries, it is impossible to decide whether the conference is held face-to-face, online or hybrid, the registration fee has not been decided yet. In addition, the delegates also discussed and reached an agreement on the logo design and main theme of the CONSAL XVIII General Congress: “Libraries united: Rising to the challenge”, activities to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of CONSAL, CONSAL Awards, and timelines for the activity of Call for Paper. Issues of website administration, setting up a CONSAL Facebook account, revising the Country Report template and CONSAL Constitution were also analyzed and discussed bydelegates atthe meeting.

The 86^th World Library and Information Congress of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions(IFLA WLIC 86) was held online onAugust 17-19, 2021. The IFLA WLIC 86 with the theme “Let’s Work Together for the Future” drew more than 2,750 attendees representing 125 countries to more than 160 sessions, 90 hours of content, and received11,461 online comments from all around the world. The sessions focused on discussing how libraries can join and contribute to the partnership to address two key issues: cultural integration into common development and climate action, based on the library’s efforts in Inspiration-Inclusion-Commitment -Innovation and Sustainability. Following the success of the IFLA WLIC 86, the IFLA General Assembly was held virtually with the participation of hundreds of IFLA members representing libary associations and institutions around the world. The meeting summarized theresults of IFLA’s activities in the last term 2019-2021 under the theme “Let’s Work Together”...

On the afternoon of July 16, 2021, Mr. Patricio Becker - Ambassador of the Republic of Chi Le to Viet Nam visited the National Library of Viet Nam (NLV), Ms. Kieu Thuy Nga - NLV director received the delegation. At the meeting, Ms. Kieu Thuy Nga - NLV director expressed her pleasure to welcome Ambassador Patricio Becker who has just received his assignment in Viet Nam and reviewed the results of cooperation between the National Library of Viet Nam and Embassy of Chile in recent years through a series of cultural events jointly organized by the two sides. Speaking at the meeting, Ambassador Patricio Becker highly appreciated the effective cooperation between the National Library of Viet Nam and Embassy of Chile, and at the same time, he discussed plans to organize cultural events in the coming time. The ambassador suggested that the NLV continues to coordinate exhibition activities on the occasion of the 500^th anniversary of the discovery of the Strait of Magellan and the ability to coordinate events on the occasion of the 50^th founding anniversary of diplomatic relations between Viet Nam and Chile...