On the morning of March 4, 2021, Ms. Kieu Thuy Nga, Director of the National Library of Viet Nam (NLV) welcomed Mr. Etienne Rolland-Piègue, Counselor for Culture and Cooperation – French Embassy to Viet Nam and Mr. Phillipne Le Failler, Representative of the French School of the Far East to Viet Nam to visit and work. At the meeting, the NLV Director happily shared about results of the cooperation between the NLV and the NLF recently. She took the time to introduce about France-Viet Nam Information Portal which just opened on February 12, 2021, right on the first day of the traditional Vietnamese New Year. This is the result of diversified and effective cooperation between the two national libraries, based on the idea of the NLF mentioned in the Cooperation Agreement between the two libraries term 2016-2018. In the two years of 2019-2020, the NLV and the NLF have actively cooperated and exchanged ideas to select and digitize materials, integrated materials into the Portal, organized and attended meetings of the science council, invited experts to write introductory articles to realize this Portal

On the morning of February 26, 2021, at the National Library of Viet Nam, Ms. Kieu Thuy Nga – Director of the National Library of Viet Nam (NLV) had a meeting with Mr. Pham Quoc Hung – Director of the Library Department to discuss the coordination between the two institutions in implementing programs and action plans ò the Viet Nam library sector in the new stage. At the meeting, leader of the Library Department stated a number of programs, tasks and action plans to implement the library activities such as: The digital transformation program of the library sector to 2025 with a vision to 2030 approved by the Prime Minister; activities to celebrate the Viet Nam Book and Reading Culture Day (April 21^st annually) specified in the Library Law...

Implementing the decision bythe Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism assigned the National Library of Viet Nam (NLV) to implement projects on developing national standards, on December 30, 2020, the NLV organized the first symposium to collect comments on thedevelopment ofthe National Standard “Information and Documentation – Open systems Interconnection – Interlibrary Loan Application Service definition”, led by MAKieu Thuy Nga, NLV director, as project manager. The symposium was organized with the aim to exchange, discuss and receive comments of scientists, managers and experts in the fields of library, information, standard for the 2nd draft of the Standard. Attending the first symposium to collect comments on the development ofthe National Standard, there were delegates and experts...

Following the direction of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MoCST), on December 14, 2020, the National Library of Viet Nam (NLV) in cooperation with Sweden Embassy to Viet Nam solemnly opened the exhibition “Pippi Longstocking” at the NLV on the occasion of the 75^th anniversary of the Swedish children literary Pippi Longstockings. Attending the event, there were Ms. Nguyen Phuong Hoa, Director of the International Cooperation Department, MoCST; Ms. Ann Mawe, Ambassador of Sweden to Viet Nam;Ms. Kieu Thuy Nga, Director of the National Library of Viet Nam; Ms. Nguyen Thi Tao, Vice Principle of Trung Hoa Secondary School; leaders of departments under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Ministry of Information and Communications, representatives of central and Ha Noi agencies, international guests, library colleagues, news agencies, central and Ha Noi press.

To celebrate the 50^th anniversary of the establishment of the International Organization of La Francophonie (OIF), in implementation of the direction of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MoCST), on the morning of November 24, 2020, in Ha Noi, the National Library of Viet Nam held signing ceremony of cooperation agreement between the National Library of Viet Nam (NLV) and the International Organization of La Francophonie (OIF) on the implementation of the Francophone Book Space project in Viet Nam’s libraries. Attending the ceremony, there were Mr. Ta Quang Dong – Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Mr. Chékou Oussouman – OIF’s Chief Representative for Asia-Pacific, Ms. Kieu Thuy Nga – Director of the NLV; leaders of departments under the MoCST and the Ministry of Information and Communications; Ambassadors, representatives of embassies of countries of the Francophone community, international organizations in Viet Nam; representatives of the project beneficiary libraries, central and Ha Noi news agencies...

On the morning of September 1, 2020, at the National Library of Viet Nam (NLV), the Ministry of Information and Communications in collaboration with the Central Propaganda Department, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MoCST) held the opening of an online Book exhibition to celebrate the 75^th anniversary of the National Day of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam (September 2,1945 - September 2, 2020). Mr. Hoang Vinh Bao - Deputy Minister of Information and Communications presided over the ceremony and delivered the speech to open the exhibition. At the exhibition, the Authority of Publication, Printing and Distribution together with the Department of Press-Publication, the National Library of Viet Nam, the Department of Informatics, Viet Nam Post Corporation, Information and Communications Publishing House, V&V Technology Solution Development and Investment Joint Stock Company... introduce more than 1,000 documents, images and videos selected from publishing, distribution, library and museum institutions...

On the morning of June 19, 2020, Mr. Chékou Oussouman, Director of the Asia – Pacific Region, International Organization of La Francophonie (OIF) visited and worked with the National Library of Viet Nam. Ms. Kieu Thuy Nga, Director of the National Library of Viet Nam (NLV) received the delegation. At the meeting, NLV Director respectfully welcomed the newly appointed Director of the Asia-Pacific Region of OIF and expressed her belief that Mr. Chékou Oussouman would help promote the cooperation relation between the National Library of Viet Nam and the International Organization of La Francophonie in the coming time. Ms. Kieu Thuy Nga gave an overview of the establishment development, the information resources and projects that the NLV has implemented with international partners.

President Ho Chi Minh is a genius leader of our Party and people, a hero of national liberation, an outstanding cultural celebrity, and a representative of the movement for the liberation of oppressed peoples in the world. With passionate patriotism, noble communist ideals and pure international sentiments, President Ho Chi Minh devoted his whole life to the cause of emancipation of the working class, the national liberation and human liberation. As a particularly talented revolutionary, President Ho Chi Minh has creatively applied Marxism-Leninism to the specific circumstances of our country, setting the right path for Vietnamese revolution move from one victory to another. The noble qualities of President Ho Chi Minh are the embodiment of the combination of the best traditions of the Vietnamese people from thousands of years ago with the revolutionary thought of the time. His life is full of hardships and sacrifices but extremely glorious, is a shining example of revolutionary heroism, fighting solidarity, simple and humble morality…

“Read Me a Book” is a reading aloud program strongly implemented by the National Library of Viet Nam (NLV) during the last time to celebrate the Viet Nam Book Day 2020 and spread the values of experiencing reading with children, especially in the days when the whole country is implementing social isolation to prevent Covid-19 pandemic. The “Read Me a Book” campaign organizes reading promotion events and sharing posts of photos and video clips of reading aloud programs led by storytellers on social media with the view to create an overall and tangible effect, contributing to the promotion of reading culture, encouraging reading movement, expanding the reading aloud activities to all people, especially among children, thereby help them access to each book, develop their thinking, imagination and realize the value of companion with book, promote the reading enjoyment, arouse the love for books and develop the reading culture.

On March 27, 2020, the National Library of Viet Nam (NLV) held a meeting to implement the projectof developing the National Standard TCVN: Information and Documentation – Open systems Interconnection – Interlibrary Loan Application Service Definition, led by MAKieu Thuy Nga, NLV Director. The project is developed on the basis of accepting ISO 10160:2015 Information and documentation– Open Systems Interconnection– Interlibrary Loan Application Service Definition.The development of this standard derives from the actual needs,when the industrial revolution 4.0 is taking place strongly, in which “connection” and “linking” of data information is the key factor, becoming solutions to connectinformation systems for e-government and for automated information analysis systems… In library activities, interlibrary loan is an important service for library users as well as for each library-information institution in Viet Nam when budget for acquisition activity is limited and it is necessary to strengthen the ability to exploit the available sources. Interlibrary loan service and data communication among libraries and between libraries and other information systems in Viet Nam are very few and limited due to the lack of consensus on understanding and specific regulations and guiding documents for implementing this service.