NATIONAL LIBRARY OF VIETNAM

On the 4^th of February 2013, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MoCST) and the Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) held a signing ceremony on the Cooperation Program between the MoCST and the MIC for the period 2013-2020. This cooperation program is to concretize the strategic plan for Culture Development toward the year 2020 which had been approved by the Premier of the Government at the Decree number 581/QĐ-TTg dated May 6^th, 2009. According to this strategic plan, the aim of the culture sector in the field of library is “To build the reading habit among the society contributing to effectively build the future reader generations”, “… to promote the development of commune libraries and reading rooms in the communities, precincts, cultural groups as well as cultural post offices in the highland, border, island and remote areas and minority regions.

In the afternoon of 24^th January 2013, the journalist and writer Ho Quang Loi visited and donated 63 book copies entitled “Viet Nam on the wave of the times” to the National Library of Viet Nam and 63 provincial libraries of the Vietnamese library system. Especially, the author directly recorded words on books donated to each recipient library; this is really the sincere gesture of the author given to the libraries. With the trust and love to the library, the writer wishes “Viet Nam on the wave of the times” will be sent to the numerous readers of the country

 On 23^rd January 2013, the National Library of Vietnam held a conference to review the works of 2012 and implement the direction, tasks in 2013.  Accordingly, in 2012, the National Library of Viet Nam has successfully completed the services of political propaganda; organized successfully the 95^th Anniversary and received the First Class Independence Order; promote collecting the additional publications through depository acquisition; improve the effectiveness of the professional works; continue to implementing the slogan “All for the readers” with specific and active solutions to introduce, advertise the image in order to attract social communities to extract information; expand international co-operation in the field of library oriented the MoCST..