NATIONAL LIBRARY OF VIETNAM

With the hope to further strengthening the relations of friendship and cooperation between Vietnam and Iran for the last 40 years as well as creating opportunities for two countries’ citizens to learn about the cultures of both countries, in the morning of 15^th September 2015, with the consent of Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MoCST), the National Library of Vietnam collaborated with the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Vietnam to solemnly hold an official opening of the Photo exhibition “Iran and history of diplomatic relations of Iran – Vietnam”. The exhibition has introduced 80 unique photographs of cities, historical monuments, buildings, the world of Iran’s famous traditional craft of the diplomatic relation between Vietnam and Iran through milestones marking visits of two countries’ senior leaders and some miniatures of philosophy, nature, and calligraphies of poems by Persian…

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.

From 15^th - 21^st August, 2015, the 81^st annual conference was held in Cape Town, South Africa by International Federation of library associations and institutions with the theme “Dynamic Libraries: Access, Development and Transformation”. There were 3,190 leaders and experts in the field of library and information from 112 countries around the world attending the conference. During the conference, there were 224 science presentations, dozens of satellite conferences, seminars, open forums, meetings that orientated development path of the world and region’s library, the session on the development of National Library (NL), public library, digital library, preservation of documents, equipment and library building, readers’ services, construction and application of professional standards of international library, facility exhibition, technology and library documents,…