In response to Viet Nam Book Day April 21st, the World Book and Copy Right Day April 23rd, the National Library of Viet Nam (NLV) has implemented the plan for 2019 Book Festival entitled “Books-Connecting Knowledge and Development”, with the aim to honor the value of books, affirm the role and importance of books in social life, encourage and promote the reading movement, contributing to building the reading culture in Viet Nam…. Within the framework of the festival, beside activities organized at the library headquarter, the NLV has actively and positively contacted and sought funding, called books donation for municipal/provincial libraries, district and commune libraries, and ethnic people in the highlands and remote areas, especially soldiers safeguarding the airspace, the islands and the borders of the country.
In the series of the 2019 Book Festival activities, from April 11-13, 2019, the NLV has collaborated with the Department of Information and Communications and the Command of Border Defense Force of Cao Bang Province to organized a delegation led by comrade Kieu Thuy Nga – Party Committee Secretary, Director of the NLV to present books and encourage officials and soldiers working in the province. This is a spiritual gift that the NLV would like to send to border guards and officials on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the fight for northern border protection (17/2/1979-17/2/2019) and 30 years of the people border day (3/3/1989-3/3/2019).
This time, the NLV selected and presented 1,000 books and over 500 newspapers and magazines (worth over VND 80,000,000) to 6 border posts under the Cao Bang Command of Border Defense Force, including Soc Giang border post (Ha Quang district), Dam Thuy and Po Peo border post (Trung Khanh district), Ly Van border post (Ha Lang district), Hung Quoc border post (Tra Linh district) and Duc Long border post (Thach An district). For the selected books, newspapers and magazines, the main content focuses on science, history, culture, arts, Viet Nam and world literature… will help border guards and officials have more tools to conduct the activities of information propagandizing, dissemination of knowledge and entertainment, contributing to raising awareness, cultural and spiritual life for border guards and officials, at the same time, encourage and replicate the reading movement in ethnic communities.
On the occasion of working visit to Cao Bang Province, the NLV delegation has visited and donated 500 books to the provincial library, helping to increase its collections for grassroots libraries and reading rooms, contributing to promote the reading culture more deeply.
Photos of the NLV’s working visit and book donation to border posts and provincial library of Cao Bang Province.
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News: Lan Tran; Photos: Cong Lung