Training course “Digitization of library materials serving Digital Transformation” for libraries in Northern region

To carry out the Minister of Culture, Sports, and Tourism's Decision No. 2175/QD-BVHTTDL, dated July 23, 2021 on the implementation of the Plan “Digital Transformation Program of the library sector to 2025 with a vision to 2030”, from September 29 to 30, 2022, in Sa Pa town, Lao Cai province, the National Library of Viet Nam organized a training course on “Digitization of library materials serving digital transformation”.

Attending the training course, there were Ms. Kieu Thuy Nga - Director of the National Library of Viet Nam, Mr. Nguyen Dinh Dung – Deputy Director of Lao Cai Department of Culture and Sports, and representatives of leaders and employees working in the field of information and communication technology from public libraries, university libraries, special libraries and armed forces libraries in the Northern region.

Currently, digital transformation is taking place at high speech, opening the door for countries to promote innovation and improve national competitiveness. In Viet Nam, the Digital National Transformation Program approved by the Prime Minister set the goals with a 10-year vision will comprehensively change the country. In library activities, the Prime Minister issued Decision No. 206/QD-TTg dated February 11, 2021 on “Digital Transformation Program of the library sector to 2025 with a vision to 2030”. The program has strongly promoted awareness about the role and value of digital transformation.

Speaking at the opening of the training course, Ms. Kieu Thuy Nga – Director of the National Library of Viet Nam emphasized that digital transformation is a mandatory requirement and an inevitable trend of industries and fields in the context of the industrial revolution 4.0. To implement effective digital transformation, the development of digital information resources is one of the important contents and tasks of libraries at present. However, the number of libraries implementing this work is still small or the quality of digital resources developed by libraries still doesn’t meet the standard, making it difficult to ensure data integration, communication and sharing of digital resources. The training course “Digitization of library materials serving digital transformation” aims to equip librarians with basic and necessary knowledge about the process and method of digitizing materials, as well as technique for handling digital material to create digital collections and databases for digital transformation of libraries.

At the opening ceremony, Mr. Nguyen Dinh Dung – Deputy Director of Lao Cai Department of Culture and Sports highly appreciated the importance of the training course “Digitization of library materials serving digital transformation” organized by the National Library of Viet Nam and expected that after the training course, the trainees will gain useful and effective knowledge to serve the task of digitizing library materials serving digital transformation at their libraries.

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Overview of the Training Course “Digitization of library materials serving digital transformation”

Ms. Kieu Thuy Nga – Director of the National Library of Viet Nam gave the opening speech of the Training Course “Digitization of library materials serving digital transformation”