NATIONAL LIBRARY OF VIETNAM

On August 29, 2014, the National Library of Viet Nam (NLV) held workshop Enforcement of copyright and related rights in library-information activities in Vietnam, the workshop is aimed to perform the task given by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism appointed for the NLV as chairman of this ministerial science study. Attending theworkshop were representatives from the Department of Science, Technology and Environment, Bureau of Copyright; representatives of Viet Nam Library Association, Viet Nam Information and Documentation Association, libraries from provinces and cities, library - information center at the universities, specialized and multi-disciplinary libraries. Copyright is a part of intellectual property rights, including a set of rights for creators over their works of science, literature and art. In the communication - library section, most of activities are related to copyright, from creating information resources, compiling information products to serving users.

Following the first symposiumwas organized in Da Nang, on August 29, 2014, the National Library of Viet Nam has held the second symposium “Commentsand suggestions for the Vietnamese Standard Draft: Library activities – Terms and definitions of acquisition and cataloging” in order to continue gather discussion exchanges, suggestions on issues to the StandardsDraft. Acquisition and cataloging are the first factors deciding quality and quantity of book storage, making a united way of using materials and affecting on information-library activities, creating potential information in single agency, as well as the whole library profession. Acquisition and cataloging are not only have a special significant in improving the information resource’s quality, but the basic standard in determining the social status of the library, especially in the period of building an industrialized, modernized country.

On the occasion of the 69^th Anniversary of the National Day of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, the 47^th Anniversary of establishing the Association of Southeast Asian Nation – ASEAN, and 19 years since Viet Nam joined ASEAN, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism held the exhibition titled “ASEAN cultural space” on August 28, 2014. Attending the Opening Ceremony were Mr. Vuong Duy Bien, Deputy Minister ofthe Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Mr. Le Nhu Tien, Deputy Chairman of the National Assembly’s Committee for Culture, Education, Youth and ChildrenAffairs, Mr. Nguyen The Ky, Deputy Head of the Central Committee’s Propaganda Department, Mrs. Phan Thi Kim Dzung – Director of the National Library of Viet Nam, the Ambassadors, representatives from Embassies: Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand, representatives of foreign cultural centers in Viet Nam, representatives from Ministries, Departments, Agencies of the Country and Hanoi; public and readers.