Report on Vietnam World Bank Public Information Conner in 2011
1. Vietnam PICs activity report
& plan for next period
Prepared by hieu.emba@gmail.com
Can Tho, May 2011
World Bank Vietnam Public Information Center
2. Vietnam PICs activity report
& plan for next period
• What have been done?
• What are the difficulties, challenges?
• What are the opportunities?
• Suggestions and plan for next period
3. Thai Nguyen: TNU LRC
Hanoi: VDIC
Hai Phong: Hai Phong City General
Science Library
Hue:
Hue Uni LRC
Hue Provincial Library
Da Nang: Danang General Sciences
Library
HCMC: Ho Chi Minh City General
Sciences Library
Can Tho:
Can Tho City Library
Can Tho Uni LRC
World Bank Vietnam Public Information Center
4. Missions:
To assist WB Vietnam for
more effective and
proactive dissemination
of publications and
development-related
information
World Bank Vietnam Public Information Center
5. What are the most interesting/successful activities?
• Free training session on info searching skills
• Workshop to introduce WB’s info resource
• Mobile library services
• Business library services
6. What are the most interesting/successful activities?
• Diversifying marketing activities:
– Posters, flyers to promote WB’s info resource
– Book exhibition
– Photography competition…
– Distribution of free materials…
– Email, Worth of Mouth
• Using social media tools for library works
27. What are the difficulties/ challenges?
• Limited budget
• Lack of IT, English skilled staff
• WB’s data and information resources too technical
• PIC’s users prefer Vietnamese documents
• Lack of suitable equipments (PCs, laptops, projectors…)
28. What are the opportunities?
• Numbers of users at PIC has been growing up
steadily
• The development of ICT has provide more free
IT tool to improve library works
• Numbers of Vietnamese who are familiar and
using ICT has been increasing gradually: 27.1%
of the population use internet as of June 2010
29. What’s next?
• More workshop, training to introduce WB’s new policy
on access to information, its valuable data,
documents….
• Client survey to better understand their needs
• Continue using social media to promote library works
30. What’s next?
• Maintaining and maximizing the outcome of marketing
activities
• Improving mobile library services
• Diversifying activities, provide more innovative services to
better serve users’ information demands
• Organizing outreach events (photo contest, English festival…)
to attract more new users
• Bringing “green library program” to Children's hospitals
31. Proposals to WB
• Provide more hands-on training in IT, English for librarians
• More opportunities for PICs network to lean and share
• Increase the annual budget allocated for outreach activities
• Support PICs to improve their ICT facilities
• Organize Vietnam Innovation Day (VID) program for
innovative ideas to support library works
32. Thank you very much
for your attention !
World Bank Vietnam Public Information Center
