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Vietnamese and Lao librarians exchanging experience |
Within the framework of the working visit, librarians of the Lao People's Army were briefed on the academy’s library management work, toured its library departments, exchanged experience and innovations in managing and storing documents and serving readers at the library.
Over the past years, the Party Committee and Board of Directors of the Military Academy of Logistics have led and directed its library to take various practical measures to enhance the efficiency of its document management. In particular, the academy has focused on diversifying publications from traditional to modern forms.
At present, the academy has more than 94,000 books in different sectors. Since 2006, the academy has invested in building an electronic library digitizing more than one million pages of documents. The library has connected and shared information with many academies and schools in the whole military, thus helping readers exploit information and documents more effectively. Every year, the library of the Military Logistics Academy serves more than 41,000 readers with more than 80,000 documents, of whom nearly 2,500 readers search for electronic documents.
At the experience-sharing event, the Lao officers highly appreciated the activities of the Logistics Academy’s library. They said that they were very impressed with the electronic library as well as the unit’s activities to introduce books to readers and develop reading culture.
The host and the guest also took the occasion to exchange and share many contents related to library professionalism as well as the Lao People’s Army’s material management situation.
On behalf of the visiting delegation, Deputy Director of the Library of the Lao People’s Army Lieutenant Colonel Khumthong Thamavong thanked the academy for the warm reception. She expressed impression and congratulated the academy on the achievements that it has achieved in more than 71 years.
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The delegation visiting the library's departments |
The head of the Lao delegation emphasized that the visit and experience-sharing activity showed the special solidarity, friendship and mutual understanding between the military library services of the two countries in general and between the delegation of the librarians of the Lao People's Army and the Military Logistics Academy in particular. It will contribute to preserving and developing the comprehensive, sustainable, and long-term cooperative relationship between the two states and militaries.
Through visits and experience-sharing activities, librarians of the two militaries will learn many good models and effective initiatives to apply to their units’ task implementation to meet higher requirements of documentation work in the digital age.
Translated by Tran Hoai