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THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY

LEARNING RESOURCE CENTER Your partner for sustainable development

Thai Nguyen

Thai Nguyen University Learning Resource CenterYour partner for sustainable development!

TNU LRC is a new modern library & information center built to support educational institutes located in the north mountainous area of Vietnam for better developing human resources, improving scientific research and promote technology transferring.

www.lrc-tnu.edu.vn

Tan Thinh Ward, Thai Nguyen City, Vietnam

2020

Our vision: To be a leading information center and digital library, training cooperation and IT applying hub in Vietnam and local region

Prepared by Hieu Thieu, Project Manager, Thai Nguyen University Learning Resource Center

Agenda

• Brief Introduction about TNU

• Vietnam LRC Network

• TNU LRC

Thai Nguyen

Established in 1994 as one of 3 regional, multidisciplinary

universities of Vietnam

One of Vietnam’s dominant universities

The central hub for training, scientific research and technology

transferring in the NMA of Vietnam

Total students: 79.100

Graduates and post graduates: 3.000 Undergraduates: 76.100

Yearly new recruitment of 25,000 students

Faculty members: 3504 Full and associate

professors: 90 Doctors: 251 Masters: 1135

Academic programs Undergraduate: 118 Master: 50 Ph.D: 18

Vietnam LRC Network

Each LRC is a new modern, American style of library & information center that were built thanks to financial support worth of $ 10 million from Atlantic Philanthropies

Missions:To support educational and training institutes for better developing human resources, improving scientific research and promote technology transferring

Hue LRC: opened on 23rd March 2004

Can Tho LRC: Opened on 24th May 2005

Da Nang LRC: opened on 26th July 2005

Thai Nguyen University Learning Resource Center

• Human resources

• Company’s facilities,

equipment & resources

• Main services & activities

• Strategic partners

• Cooperation opportunities

Gran Opening ceremony : 21st November 2007

Visions

To be a leading information center and digital library, training cooperation and IT applying hub in Vietnam and local region.

2020

Human ResourceNumber of Staff: 54

1 Professor, PhD

13 Masters

25 Bachelors

Board of Directors

Project MGT

AD & Finance

Info Resource

Info Service

IT

Facilities • 4-story building, 8000 m2 located

right next to TNU “white house”

• 400 PCs with high speed internet connection, wireless access

• Modern Auditorium 300 seats, with up-to-date IT equipment to organize video conference

• Multimedia classroom with international standards

One of the most modern, beautiful auditorium in Vietnam

One of the most modern, beautiful auditorium in Vietnam

Video conference at LRC

PCs network with up-to-date software +Wide bandwidth, high speed internet connection

Quiet reading and study areas

Group discussion room AV room

Multimedia classroom with international standards

8 Vietnamese database (1 was built and developed by LRC staff): 1.560 textbooks, 4.000 e-books 345 e-lectures prepared by TNU faculty members 1.120 Master and PhD thesis 9.500 research results, 60.000 scientific article (full text) Vietnamese Scientific Journals

6 most popular English databas: IG

Publishing, Proquest central...more

than 80% are full-text articles of all

subjects, 30 thousand research

results, 4.386 e-books…

Book ( Name) Number of copies Text book Journals (name)

21.000 73.000 11.600 220

Library & Information Resources

Main Services & Activities

• LIBRARY AND INFORMATION

SERVICES

• WORKSHOP, SEMINARS

• TRAINING COOPERATION

• PROJECT MANAGEMENT

2009: 287.000 people came to use

LRC facilities and resources

In average: 1.087 per day,

increasing 2.1 times in comparison

with this numbers in 2008

Library & Information Services

Online information searching at LRC

2009: 962.100 access to LRC website

In average: 2.072 per day, increasing 3.8 times in comparison with 2008

Education and training cooperation

Cooperating with NIIT – a global leading company in IT training

Cooperation between TNU LRC & Hanoi Open Uni

Finance & Banking

Accounting

Business Administration

Business Law

TNU LRCTNU College of

Science

Library and information science & Educational

Facility

Organizing conference, workshops, seminars

Training program of World Population Council

Workshop in develop and manage moder, digital library

Project Management

Training program of Bill & Melinda Gates' project at LRC

Cooperation with University of Hawaii

Cooperation with RMIT University

Our strategic partners

Cooperation opportunities

To share and exchange database, information resources

To share & learn from each other for work performance

improvement

Staff exchange

To help establish advanced program in Library &

Information Science?

Thank you very much for your attention !