NATIONAL LIBRARY OF VIETNAM

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.

From August 16-22, 2014 the 80^th World Library and Information Congress of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA WLIC 2014) was taken place in Lyon, Republic of France. Over 4,000 delegates from more than 120 countries participated in the Congress. Viet Nam sent 5 delegates. During the Congress, theme of the IFLA WLIC 2014 “Libraries, Citizens, Societies: Confluence for Knowledge” has been actively explored and discussed by library and information experts through more than 400 reports in 227 sessions. NLV delegates has actively participated in some focus activities of the IFLA WLIC 2014...

In accordance with the professional plan approved by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, from August 4 to 11, 2014, in Da Nang City, the National Library of Viet Nam organized a training course on the use of the Dewey Decimal Classification - Edition 23 in Vietnamese – DDC 23 in favor of the librarians in charge of cataloging at the information – library in the Center and Tay Nguyen Region. This is second of three courses at the North, Centre and the South. The first training course was held for library – information agencies, training institutions of the mountainous region in the North, North – West and Red River Delta had been organized in Hai Phong City in June 2014. The training course presented all important knowledge regarding the use of DDC23 which help the learners to understand the use of DDC with hierarchical structure and notations; becoming familiar with the different types of notes in DDC; to apply the basic principles for the right choice among the main potential numbers and techniques to add numbers from tables and adding tables to create classification number for a document.