The document summarizes information about the Thai Nguyen University Learning Resource Center in Vietnam. It was established in 1994 as one of the regional, multidisciplinary universities of Vietnam. The LRC has over 54 staff members and houses a collection of over 28,000 books, 50,000 textbooks, and access to 6 databases containing academic articles, ebooks, lectures and theses. It provides modern facilities for students including 400 computers, an auditorium, multimedia classrooms, and quiet study areas. In 2009, over 962,000 people accessed the LRC website and 287,000 visited the facilities.

1. Trung tâm Học liệu
Đại học Thái Nguyên
THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY
LEARNING RESOURCE CENTER
Your partner for sustainable development

2. Thai Nguyen
Hanoi
 Established in 1994 as one of 3
regional, multidisciplinary universities of
Vietnam
 One of 14 dominant universities
 The central hub for training, scientific
research and technology transferring in
the NMA of Vietnam

3.  Faculty members
 Full and associate
professors: 90
 Doctors: 250
 Masters: 800
 Academic programs
• Undergraduate: 115
• Master: 39
• PhD: 24
 Total students: 78.000
 Graduates and post graduates: 5.000
 Undergraduates: 73.000

4. Thai Nguyen University Learning Resource Center
• Vietnam LRC Network
• Missions & vision
• Human resources
• Facilities, equipment
• Information, learning
resources

5. 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 to better achieve their missions:
developing human resources, improving scientific
research and promote technology transferring

6. Grand Opening ceremony : 21st November 2007

7. Vision
2015
To be the most modern digital library,
knowledge and information sharing hub,
cooperative training center in Vietnam.

8. Human Resource
Board of Directors
Number of Staff: 54
 1 Professor, PhD
Administration Public & Technical
(30 staff) Service Department
(22 staff)
 13 Masters
 25 Bachelors Project
AD & (4 )
IS IR
Finance (17) (5 )
(17)
IT
( 9)

10. Facilities, equipment
• 4-story building, 8000 m2 located at
the heat of Thai Nguyen city
• 400 PCs with high speed internet
connection, wireless access
• Modern Auditorium 300 seats, with
up-to-date IT equipment
• Multimedia classroom with
international standards

11. One of the most modern, beautiful auditorium in Vietnam

12. One of the most modern, beautiful auditorium in Vietnam

13. Video conference at LRC

14. Quiet study areas

15. Group discussion room AV room

16. Multimedia classroom

17. 400 PCs + Wide bandwidth, high speed internet connection

18. Internet Connection
 Equipped with 02 simultaneous internet service to
maintain continuous connection: Lease line 2Mb + ADSL 8MB
TNU LRC is a Network
Operating Center using 45
MB commercial Internet
connection provided by
VinaRen project

19. Information & learning resources
Book ( Name) Number of copies Text book Journals (name)
28.000 50.000 6.000 220
5 Vietnamese database (1 was built and developed by LRC staff):
 1.560 textbooks, 4.000 e-books
 300 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 database:
Science Dierect, Proquest
central...more than 80% are full-text
articles of all subjects, 30 thousand
research results, 4.386 e-books…

22. 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

23.  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

24. Proposals
• University libraries should be the focal coordinator in
developing, promoting OCW
• Providing more information sessions for instructors,
students to introduce & promote Vietnam
openCourseWare program
• Implementing a marketing campaign to increase
awareness of Vietnam OCW project, its benefits….
• Uploading more educational materials in Vietnamese
• Translating good English open courses into Vietnamese

25. Thank you very much
for your attention !