Responsibility in Carrying Out Activities of Communal Libraries

Responsibilities in implementing specialized activities of commune-level Libraries are regulated in Circular 13 as follows:

- Building and developing the library's document collection. Specifically:

- Developing plans to supplement the document collection from budget sources suitable to the level and needs of the people, the characteristics, and the requirements for local economic, cultural, and social development; submitting to the governing body for inclusion in the annual document collection development plan;- Enhancing the document collection through the receipt of circulating books and newspapers from provincial and district libraries; books and newspapers funded, gifted, donated, or exchanged by organizations and individuals both domestically and internationally with other libraries and reading rooms in the area;- Organizing surveys of user needs in the area to develop appropriate supplementation plans;- Participating in and coordinating with provincial and district libraries in building and developing the local bibliographic document collection;

- Information processing and organizing the search system:

- Organizing suitable search methods, at a minimum having a catalog of documents in the library. Encouraging the application of information technology in building an electronic search system;- Encouraging the use of technical processing results, format processing of provincial, district libraries and the processing results of key libraries to ensure accuracy, uniformity, saving time, labor, and costs;

- Organizing and arranging scientific documents conveniently for users, ensuring at a minimum separate sections for adult and children's document collections.

- Developing and implementing measures for document preservation, fire prevention and fighting; performing inventory and weeding of documents suitable to the scale, quantity, and nature of the library's documents according to legal regulations.

- Organizing activities to introduce and inform about new books, newspapers, and documents to library users.

- Organizing or coordinating the organization of information and propaganda activities according to the plan or request of the governing body; building the movement and forming reading habits and following books and newspapers among the local population.

- Participating in building and developing the network of bookcases, reading rooms in residential areas. Promoting the role as a document circulation point in the network of libraries in the area.

- Implementing statistical reporting policies as regulated, enhancing the application of information technology in statistical reporting.

See details Circular 13/2016/TT-BVHTTDL effective from January 22, 2017.

- Thao Uyen -

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