NATIONAL LIBRARY OF VIETNAM

On January 8 of the lunar calendar (30^th January 2012) National Library of Vietnam (NLV) hosted the spring meeting and the signing of the agreement emulation for executives and officials on the occasion of the Lunar New Year of the Dragon (2012). Also at the meeting in the new year, the Trade Union of the National Library of Vietnam launched the agreement emulation with the slogan “Tradition – Modern – Digital Library, creating the friendly environment for people to read and study in the whole life” including contents adhere to the library’s main tasks in 2012.

In the afternoon of January 20, 2012, the last working day of the Year 2011, Minister of Information and Communications Nguyễn Bắc Son paid a visit to the National Library of Viet Nam (NLV), wished the Directorial Board and staff of the NLV a Happy New Year and presented photographs to the Library.

The NLV operates under the management of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism but up to 85% of its national collection comes from Publishing Houses and Press Agencies of the Ministry of Information and Communications. With the functions to collect, preserve and promote the national culture written heritage, the NLV has established effective collaborations with Publishing Houses and Press Agencies throughout the country to collect the most sufficient publications in Viet Nam as well as publications about Viet Nam published overseas.

On 11^th January 2012, the National Library of Vietnam (NLV) organizes Conference of officials and employees and summarizes the Party work 2011; implementation of the work plan 2012. The Resolution has been adopted at the Conference which determined the direction, key tasks in 2012 toward 95^th anniversary of the National Library of Vietnam’s establishment, year 2012 is the year to implement phase 1 of the work plan to improve the library followed up the model "National Library: Traditional - modern -  Digital National Library"; striving to achieve "First-class Independence Medal" by the State.