In celebration of 66th Anniversary of August Revolution and the Independence Day of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (September 2nd 1945 – September 2nd 2011) and the Vietnamese Tourism Year 2011 themed “Exotic beaches and islands”, under the approval of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Vietnam. Today, the National Library of Vietnam (NLV) in cooperation with Publishing Directorate, Publishing Houses, Book companies, corporations, central and local agencies, provincial/municipal libraries nationwide and international organizations in Hanoi organizes an "exhibition on pictures, photos, maps and documents entitled “Ha Long Bay, exotic Beaches and Islands of Vietnam”.
The delegates in the ribbon cutting Ceremony
More than 1,000 items featuring information inculded materials, books, maps, photos, audio-viusal documents about Ha Long Bay and Vietnam's sea and islands areas are on exhibition at the NLV etc. which are selected from NLV’s various collection and city/provicial libraries in Vietnam.
The exhibition is a chance for readers and public at home and abroad to deeper understand about the natural beauty of Vietnam, the hospitable and friendly Vietnamese people and the charming culture of Vietnam; more understand about NLV’s collection abundant in materials about beaches and islands including copies of documents, ancient bibliography on beaches and islands dated from the 17th century to present.
Through these selected materials displayed at the exhibition "Ha Long Bay, beaches and islands of Vietnam", the NLV and coordinating institutions would like to introduce to readers at home and abroad the unique and particularly interesting traits of exotic beaches and islands tourism of Vietnam; thence loving more and making more effort to build and promote value of the sea and islands; this also help to raise awareness of the responsibility for management, conservation and protect seas and islands and the nation; Vietnam strives to become a powerful maritime country, enrich from the sea, contributing to stability and national development.
On this occasion, with the hopes to promote reading culture in the country, the NLV calls for sponsor from 31 agencies including Publishing Directorate, Publishing Houses, Book companies, Bookstores, Enteprises etc. donated books, library equipments for 27 public libraries in marine areas and 2 public libraries in difficulty. Each library receives 1,000 books and among them, 3 libaries receive computers.
Within the framework of the exhibition, the Youth Union of the NLV host an exchange program entitled “Discovering the beauty of beaches and islands of Vietnam through book pages”; participants of Youth Union from 4 institutions attended the program included
National Library of Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh museum
College of Hanoi tourism
Management Board of the Culture-Tourism Village of Vietnamese Ethnic Groups.
List of sponsors:
- Cultural researcher Nguyen Duc Ton
- Publishing Directorate, Ministry of Information and Communication
- Embassy of Iran
- Japanese Cultural Centre in Hanoi
- L'ÉFEO
- Bach Khoa Publishing Houses
- Political-Administrative Publishing House
- National Political Publishing House
- Dan tri Publishing House
- Vietnam Education Publishing House
- Transportation Publishing House
- Ha Noi Publishing House
- Financial Publishing House
- Hai Phong Publishing House
- Social Sciences Publishing House
- Kim Dong Publishing House
- Labor Publishing House
- Fine Art Publishing House
- Judicial Publishing House
- Encyclopedia Publishing House
- Vinabook Jsc
- Bach Viet Book Company
- Tu Van Book Company
- Dong A Book Company
- Nha Nam Publishing and Communications JSC
- Restoring Fund for King Hung’s temple
- Trung Nguyen book café centre
- Nguyen Kim Trang Thi shopping centre
- Minh Lam bookstore
- National Library of Vietnam
- Vietnam National Corporation for the export and import of books, periodicals and other cultural commodities
List of the recipient libraries:
- Quang Ninh provincial library
- Hai Phong city library
- Thai Binh provincial library
- Nam Dinh provincial library
- Ninh Binh provincial library
- Thanh Hoa provincial library
- Nghe An provincial library
- Ha Tinh provincial library
- Quang Binh provincial library
- Quang Tri provincial library
- Hue city library
- Da Nang city library
- Quang Nam provincial library
- Quang Ngai provincial library
- Binh Dinh provincial libary
- Phu Yen provincial library
- Khanh Hoa provincial library
- Ninh Thuan provincial library
- Binh Thuan provincial library
- Ba Ria – Vung Tau provincial library
- Binh Phuoc provincial library
- Tien Giang provincial library
- Ben Tre provincial library
- Tra Vinh provincial library
- Hau Giang provincial library
- Soc Trang provincial library
- Bac Lieu provicial library
- Kien Giang provincial library
- Ca Mau provincial library
Photos of the same event: Many readers and public visiting the exhibition
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Text: Phuong Lan, photos: Hung Manh
Source: Reference Division, Professional Guidance Division