NATIONAL LIBRARY OF VIETNAM

On November 24, 2011, the Congress of Việt Nam Library Association term II was taken place in Hanoi with the participation of over 200 delegates representing the entire members of the Association working at all library systems in every part of Việt Nam. At the congress, discussions has helped to completed the Summary Report of the 1^st Term (2006 - 2011) and orientations for the 2^nd Term (2011 - 2016) in such contents as expanding VLA members in the library related sectors, paying more attentions to libraries and operation of association branches, strenthening international cooperation, establishing joint branches of the association in academic library system by reagion or field of training, etc.

On October 3 2011, the National Library of Vietnam (NLV) has successfully organized library readers’s Conference in 2011. At this meeting, the NLV has received nearly 30 direct comments from generations of library readers: scientists, researchers, students, retired people whom have become friendly readers of NLV for years.

On 31 October 2011, Ms Jung-eun Park, Librarian in charge of Window of Korea (WOK) and Ms. Jihae Jeon, Librarian in charge of Cultural Partnership program (CPI) have visited and worked with the National Library of Vietnam. The purpose of the delegation’s visit is to evaluate current use of books, facilities and discuss on effectiveness operation of Window of Korea corner at NLV (launching in 2007); concurrently to do survey on effectiveness of training librarians in Asean countries program within the framework of Cultural Partnership Initiatives (CPI) which has been implemented so far.