NATIONAL LIBRARY OF VIETNAM

To celebrate the 70^th Anniversary of Viet Nam’s first General Election Day (06/01/1946 – 06/01/2016), on the afternoon of January 4^th, 2016, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MCST) solemnly opened the exhibition of books, documents: “70 years of National Assembly of Viet Nam” at the National Library of Viet Nam (NLV). The exhibition displays more than 1.000 significant items which were selected out of over 2 million NLV’s items about National Assembly of Viet Nam, it aims to reappear the historical years, operation process and the great achievements that the National Assembly and Vietnamese people have achieved over 70 years. These documents mostly published as books, newspapers. Especially, documents of films and photos are considered as the very important, original evidences for the exploring, studying of the National Assembly, are also displayed at the event.

Following the first symposium was organized in Ho Chi Minh City, on December 29, 2015, the National Library of Viet Nam has held the second symposium “Comments and suggestions for the Draft of Vietnamese Standard: Library activities – Terms and definitions of Library Products and Services” in order to continue gather discussion exchanges, suggestions on issues to the Standard’s Draft. The Library’s Products and Services are the result of library’s activities and have great significance in bringing library’s values to users, in order to discover effectively these achievements for the benefit of community. This is the fourth professional national standard on library sector which was compiled by the National Library of Viet Nam under assignment of Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

On December 24, 2015, the National Library of Viet Nam has organized the first symposium “Making suggestions on National Standards: Library activities - Terms and definitionsof library products and services” in Ho Chi Minh City in order to exchange opinions, discussion and comments on the draft. There were leader-level representatives from library – information institutions; Directorate for Standards, Metrology and Quality; experts in the library sector of the southern territory from Thua Thien Hue downwardly attending the symposium. The draft of National Standards “Library activities - Terms and definitionsof library products and services” consists of 132 terms and definitions which were built on the basis of reference, extension, update from the modern content, terminologies of the announced standards, dictionaries… of some countries (mostly from United States and Russia), compliance with the harmonic principle with ISO (international standard)....