ASEAN Digital Library 2nd Regional Meeting

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From 17 -19 May 2016, ASEAN Digital Library 2nd Regional Meeting(ADL) has taken place at the National Library Board of Singapore (NLB) with participation of 10 ASEAN countries’ delegates. The digital library project is managed by Singaporean Library Council with the aim of connecting national libraries of ASEAN countries to share and contribute digital resource for ASEAN Community and the global. The main session of the Regional Meeting took place lively with reports and discussions from national libraries. The Regional Meeting records the positive achievements of national libraries of ASEAN countries, including National Library of Viet Nam, National Library of Thailand, National Library Board of Singapore that had great attribution and met high technical requirements in providing data to…

 

RMIT International University donated books to National Library of Viet Nam

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In the morning of May 10, 2016 at the National Library of Viet Nam (NLV), Mrs. Clare O’Dwyer - Senior Library Manager of RMIT Viet Nam – has donated 100 titles of foreign books to NLV in order to support the Book Festival 2016. This is the second donation from RMIT Viet Nam during last 2 years. These 100 books including literary works of writers from Australia and in the world will be the valuable materials to support study and research of the library’s users. Speaking at the receiving ceremony, Mr. Nguyen Xuan Dung – Deputy Director of NLV expresses the appreciation and support frequently from RMIT Viet Nam to NLV’s activities in the recent years, he also expresses the desire to tighten cooperative relations between two institutions through the mutual projects on staff training, human resource exchange, increasing librarian’s professional skills, organizing events together…

 

General Assembly session of Francophone Library Network in 2016

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On 27th April, 2016, at the Headquarter of Organization internationale de la Francophonie (OIF), Paris – France, General Assembly of Francophone Digital Network (RFN) has held a meeting with the participation of representatives from OIF and Directors of network’s member libraries. To the National Library of Viet Nam, we have Mrs. Kieu Thuy Nga – Director attending the meeting which is held on the 10th Birthday occasion of RFN. Speaking at the meeting, the RFN Secretary General emphasized the role of the network in promoting cultural diversity, maintaining and preserving French heritage through a digitization program to documents stored in the member libraries. This content has been emphasized at the session of RFN in Dakar - Senegal in 2015, which aimed to facilitate readers in Francophone to access French-language knowledge. During the past year, a number of pilot projects have been implemented by some members with technical assistance from French, Belgian, Canadian members, especially the Project provides digital materials for portal Gallica Marque Blanche of the National Library of France.

 
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