Hanoi (VNA) – Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc hasapproved a digital transformation programme for the library sector to 2025 witha vision to 2030, with an overall goal of strengthening the comprehensiveapplication of IT, especially digital technology to enhance operationalefficiency and form a modern library network.
The objectives of the programme include ensuring the supplyof services to meet the demand of users, while attracting more people usinglibrary services, contributing to improving people’s literacy and building a learning society.
To 2025, 100 percent of public libraries with important role invested along with the Vietnam National Library, and public libraries in provinces and centrally-run cities will develop and complete digital infrastructure, digital data. The libraries are expected to provide online services.
Besides, 70 percent of rare and valuable documents andthose with special value in history, culture and science are hoped to be digitalised.
Under the scheme, 100 percent of library staff will betrained and retrained to master the management of the modern library system.
By 2030, the scheme will cover all types of libraries,ensuring the provision of library services in everywhere and at every time.
To this end, the programme gives a number of solutions, including improvingpublic awareness in the field by strengthening communications, completingrelevant mechanisms, policies and legal regulations, promoting digitalinfrastructure as well as the digital data of the sector, and ensuring cybersecurity.
Library services using digital resources as well as productswith the application of artificial intelligence (AI) will be diversified.
Along with the provision of online services serving people’s studying, researchingand entertainment demands, library mobile apps will be developed to ensure thatpeople can access library information all the time at any places.
An open data system will be build to enable the community,businesses and private libraries to engage in building an open data ecosystemand the national library information system, contributing to building smartcities and studying society./.
