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.

Within the framework of activities to celebrate the founding day of the Communist Party of Viet Nam, on February 3, 2020, the National Library of Viet Nam (NLV) was honored to welcome comrade Nguyen Xuan Phuc – Politburo Member, Prime Minister to visist the Book Exhibition celebrating the 90th founding anniversary of the Communist Party of Viet Nam, hosted by the Ministry of Information and Communications, in collaboration with the Central Propaganda and Training Department and the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. Also attending the visit were Mr. Vo Van Thuong – Politburo Member, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Head of Central Propaganda and Training Department, Mr. Mai Tien Dung – Member of the Party Central Committee, Chairman of the Office of the Government, comrade Nguyen Ngoc Thien – Member of the Party Central Committee, Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, comrade Nguyen Manh Hung – Member of the Party Central Committee, Minister of Information and Communications, comrade Hoang Vinh Bao – Deputy Minister of Information and Communications, President of Vietnamese Publishing Association.

On February 2, 2020, the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) hosted and coordinated with the Central Propaganda and Education Commissionand the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism to organize a book exhibition celebrating the 90th founding anniversary of the Communist Party of VietNam (February 3, 1930 - February 3, 2020) at the National Library of Viet Nam (NLV). Attending the exhibition were comradeVo Van Thuong – ​Memberof the Politburo, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Head of Central Propaganda and Education  Commission; comrade Nguyen Manh Hung - Member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Head of the Central Propaganda and Education Commission, Minister of Information and Communications; comrade Nguyen The Ky - Member of the Party Central Committee, General Director of the Voice of Viet Nam, Chairman of the Central Council for the Theory and Criticism of Literature and the Arts; Lieutenant General Nguyen Trong Nghia - Member of the Party Central Committee...

Implementing the 2019 plan, from December 9-12, 2019, the Vietnamese Library Association of Southern Academic Libraries in collaboration with the University of Finance and Marketing Library organized a training course on using the cataloguing rules Resource Description and Access (RDA) – Vietnamese edition with the National Library of Viet Nam as the trainers. Attending the training course were managing officials and cataloguers of universities and colleges in the Southern region. The training course introduced important knowlege about RDA cataloguing rules, such as: overview about RDA, structure and management principles; relationships with other standards on resource description and access; usage of guidelines and instructions in RDA to record attributes of manifestations and items, attributes of works and expressions, attributes of persons, families and corporate bodies, attributes of concepts, objects, events and places; the basics of relationships between entities in RDA...

On December 10, 2019, a Book presentation ceremony from the National Library of Korea to the National Library of Viet Nam (NLV) under the “Window on Viet Nam” – a component of the “Window on Korea” project took place in Ha Noi. Attending the ceremony were Ms. Park Hyejin– Director of Korean Cultural Center in Ha Noi, Ms. Nguyen Ngoc Anh, Mr. Nguyen Xuan Dung – Deputy Directors of the NLV and managing officials of the library divisions, students of Korean studies – university of social sciences and humanities (Ha Noi National University). With the experience of implementing major projects in receiving books, the NLV has been actively maintaining and expanding the exchange and cooperation relations with libraries and information centers at home and abroad to supplement and enrich the foreign language resources of the library. Since 2005, the “Window on Korea” project has been officially launched at the NLV. Over the past ten years, many books have been donated by the National Library of Korea to the NLV’s readers. So far, the total number of books received by the NLV has reached to over 9,000 items.

On November 26, 2019, a presentation ceremony of theGuamán Poma de Ayala Artworks by Embassy of the Republic of Peru to the National Library of Viet Nam (NLV) took place at the NLV. Attending the ceremony were Mr. Tran Nhat Hoang – Deputy Director General of the International Cooperation Department, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism; Mr. Augusto Morelli Salgado– Ambassador of the Republic of Peru to Viet Nam; Mr. Nguyen Xuan Dung – NLV Deputy Director, leaders and managing officials of the NLV, Ambassadors of Colombia, Mexico, Czech Republic; representatives of Uruguay and Chile embassies, staff of Peru embassy, and the library readers. Viet Nam and Peru have been close partners for many years. The NLV has always been selected as the destination to promote culture exchange, introduce and popularize literature, culture, cuisine and tourism of Peru through activities of donating books, journals and magazines.