Vietnam Events

Below are details of some recent events run by INASP and local partners

For more information on these workshops, or to download training materials, see the Training Activities and Materials page.

Building a specialised economics library consortium in Vietnam, October 2010
LIS Curriculum review and development, December 2009
MEERU, September 2009
Optimising usage of e-Resources for research,December 2008-March 2009

Building a specialised economics library consortium in Vietnam, Hanoi, Vietnam, October 2010.

In August 2010 a two-day workshop was held in Hanoi to facilitate the establishment of an economics library consortium in Vietnam. The aim of the consortium would be to strengthen the information and resource sharing activities of the member libraries, developing opportunities for collaboration, and creating a means for improved operational effectiveness. The workshop was facilitated by Ms. Jean Sykes, MBE, Chief Information Officer at the London School of Economics (LSE).

There were three key questions addressed:

  • Why the need for a Vietnamese economics library consortium?
  • What are the challenges faced by economics libraries in Vietnam?
  • What specific goals do the partners want to achieve, for their libraries and their users?

The first day concentrated on the three presentations and the key issues identified. The second day was devoted to the practicalities of setting up the network and group discussions on three key issues: (1) Governance and organisation of the consortium; (2): Strategic and operational planning; (3) Financing the network and creating its identity.

The programme was devised to achieve a logical progression from discussion and agreement about the key objectives of the consortium. Since returning from Hanoi Ms. Sykes has worked with CIEM on setting out the tasks to concentrate on in advance of the December meeting of the consortium, the goal of which will be to discuss and ratify the documents produced during and after the first meeting, and to celebrate the official launch of the new consortium.

LIS curriculum review and development workshop,  Hanoi University of Culture, Information Science Department, 2 - 4 December 2009
More than 20 participants from 5 institutions attended this workshop, the goal of which was to provide an overview of Library and Information Science training in Vietnam, discuss current issues, and review the Library and Information Bachelor course offered by the Information Science Department of Hanoi University of Culture. In the process it also provided participants with general information on the process of curriculum design and development.

In addition to academic and administrative staff of the Faculty of Library and Information Science, participants included delegates from Hanoi University of Culture management board and heads of faculty and departments in the University, delegates from the Ministry of Culture, Sport and Tourism, the National Library of Vietnam and large university libraries

The workshop was facilitated by Professor Paul Sturges, Emeritus Professor of Library Studies, Loughborough School of Information Science

Monitoring and evaluation of electronic resources and usage (MEERU), Hue, Vietnam, 8 - 10 September 2009
MEERU, December 2009Twenty-four participants attended this training workshop at the Hue Learning Resource Centre facilitated by Peter Burnett. The event was considered very successful with extremely positive feedback about the organisation, facilitation, content relevance and methodologies to work place environment.
Topics covered included:

  • collection and interpretation of statistical data provided by publishers on the use of PERii e-resources
  • introduction to the COUNTER codes of practice (the agreed international set of standards and protocols governing the recording and exchange of online usage data
  • collection and use of qualitative data on the use of e-resources using the EvaluEd toolkit (http://www.evalued.bcu.ac.uk/)
  • integration of quantitative and qualitative data in monitoring usage of e-resources

Optimising usage of e-Resources for research - Workshop series, Central Library, Vietnam National University-Hochiminh City, December 2008 - March 2009
Vietnam, December-MarchMr Pham Van Trien, of the Central Library at Vietnam National University-Hochiminh City (VNU-HCM), organised a series of 7 training workshops. The materials were composed and prepared with the help of the five trainers-librarians who came from Public Services, Technical Services and Electronic Resources departments of VNU-HCM. The workshops presented a variety of resources and raised awareness of what is currently available to aid research along with enhancing skills to do so effectively.Feedback from Mr Pham Van Trien regarding requests for further training and/or provision of the materials used indicates the relevance and quality of the training. Further impact beyond the immediate participants are also evident by the desire to implement the training to colleagues and comments such as "..the project has created a new movement and attention of many others in accessing and distributing resources".

Some of the training materials used during presentations are also available for download.