report on vietnam world bank public information conner in 2011
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World Bank Vietnam Public Information Center
Vietnam PICs activity report & plan for next period
Can Tho, May 2011
Prepared by [email protected]
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
World Bank Vietnam Public Information Center
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
Missions:
To assist WB Vietnam for
more effective and
proactive dissemination
of publications and
development-related
information
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
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
Free training session on information searching skills
Free training session on information searching skills
Workshop on how to access WB’s info, data
Seminar “Gender issues and equality”
Seminar “Gender issues and equality”
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Mobile library
Mobile library service
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Mobile library service
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Business library
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Bring books to children in surban area
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Posters/flyers to introduce WB’s info resource
Posters/flyers to introduce WB’s info resource
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Distribution free printed materials
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Photography competition about “The beauty of traditional work in Hue”
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Photography competition about “The beauty of traditional work in Hue”
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Using social media to expand network
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Earth day – 22April 2011 Photos exhibition and free book distribution
Using medial social for Center’s introduction
http://youtu.be/dlFdXwrAwes
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…)
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
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
• 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
What’s next?
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
World Bank Vietnam Public Information Center
Thank you very much for your attention !