NATIONAL LIBRARY OF VIETNAM

On the morning of January 12, 2016, National Library of Viet Nam (NLV) held the 2015 Conference for Officials and Employees to summarize 2015’s working activities and plan the orientations and tasks for the year of 2016. Attending the Conference, from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MCST) there were Mr. Huynh Vinh Ai – Deputy Minister, Mr. Nguyen Huu Gioi – President of Labor Union, Mrs. Vu Duong Thuy Nga – Director of Library Department, Mr. Trinh Ngoc Canh – Deputy Head of the Party Organization Committee, Mr. Quan Van Hai – Office Manager of Youth Union, and leadership representatives from Division 5, Department of Information- communication security (A87), Ministry of Public Security. In 2015, under the attention and guidance from the MCST, with the cooperation and efforts between the related Ministries, Departments and Divisions, the NLV’s Management Board, officials and employees have striven to accomplish effectively every assigned tasks following the scheduled plans, demonstrated by the outstanding achievements as follow:

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.