(9 Aug 2024) A national digital library on explosive ordnance risk education was officially launched on August 9 by the Vietnam National Mine Action Centre (VNMAC) with support from Catholic Relief Services (CRS) Vietnam and the US Department of State. The free library, at https://thuviendientu.vnmac.gov.vn, aims to help with the education on and prevention of…
(14 May 2024) The IFLA Information Literacy (ILS) Section Newsletter is published twice a year. Articles in the Summer 2024 issue include: Unlocking Minds: Digital Libraries for Sustainable Literacy (Banaras Hindu University, India) Transforming the AMDI Library, Universiti Sains Malaysia: Embracing Innovation for Enhanced Learning (Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia) Library Instruction and Blended Learning at RMIT University Vietnam…
(9 May 2024) Prof. Dr. Vo Xuan Vinh, who is ranked 8th among 47 Vietnamese people in the ‘top most influential scientists in the world’, is the author of an article that was just removed by an international magazine. Prof. Dr. Vo Xuan Vinh is “Vietnam’s leading economic researcher”, one of four Vietnamese people…
(8 May 2024) Asia-Pacific Member States newly inscribed 20 items during the 2024 cycle of the Memory of the World Regional Register at the 10th General Meeting of the Memory of the World Committee for Asia and the Pacific (MOWCAP), which was convened from 7 to 8 May, in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Genealogical records were…
(19 Oct 2023) Vietnam’s community learning model, Compassion Books and House of Wisdom, has been named among Successful Practices Honorees of the 2023 Literacy Awards launched by the Library of the US Congress (LOC). According to the LOC, Compassion Books is now a network of 19,597 bookcases or libraries in more than 3,000 schools…
(14 Aug 2023) Although the Vietnamese collection at the British Library (BL) in the UK is quite small, it’s actually very important, showing that the relations between the two countries had shaped long before their official diplomatic relations were set up in 1973, according to Dr. Annabel Teh Gallop, Lead Curator for Southeast Asia at…
(5 Jul 2023) VUS, the leading education center in Vietnam, and leading global education company McGraw Hill today announced they will partner to introduce a groundbreaking Critical Math program, based on McGraw Hill’s Reveal Math, to pre-primary and primary children in Vietnam. This partnership brings together the expertise and resources of two esteemed educational establishments…
(19 Nov 2022) Open science has been a feature of academia in Vietnam for more than a decade, along with open education which has been in place since the late 2000s. Since then, with the assistance of numerous bottom-up initiatives, open science has flourished and permeated a variety of academic fields in Vietnam. However, it…
Vietnam Book and Reading Culture Day 2022, the first of its kind, will take place with various activities this month, especially from April 15 to May 1. (11 Apr 2022) On this occasion, the HCM City People’s Committee will host a book fair on Nguyen Hue street from April 19 to 24. There will also…
(18 Dec 2021) Vietnamese National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue and Chairman of the Lok Sabha (House of Representatives) of India Om Birla witnessed a signing ceremony of a memorandum of understanding between the NA of Vietnam and the Lok Sabha on cooperation in the field of library and television held in New Delhi on December…