Trung tâm Học liệu

Đại học Thái Nguyên

Thái Nguyên, April 2010

THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY

LEARNING RESOURCE CENTERYour partner for sustainable development

Agenda

• Brief Introduction about TNU

• Vietnam LRC Network

• TNU LRC

Established in 1994 as one of 3 regional, multidisciplinary

universities of Vietnam

One of 14key universities

The central hub for training, scientific research and technology

transferring in the NMA of Vietnam

Total students: 78.000

Graduates and post graduates: 5.000

Undergraduates: 73.000

Faculty members

Full and associate professors: 90

Doctors: 250

Masters: 800

Academic programs

• Undergraduate: 115

• Master: 39

• Ph.D: 24

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

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

• Missions & Vision

• Human resources

• Company’s facilities, equipment & resources

• Main products and services

• Strategic partners

Gran Opening ceremony : 21st November 2007

Visions

To be a leading information centerand digital library, trainingcooperation and IT applying hub inVietnam and local region

2015

Human ResourceBoard of Directors

AD &Finance

(17)

Administration (30 staff)

Public & Technical Service Department

(22 staff)

IT( 9)

Project(4 )

IS(17)

IR(5 )

Number of Staff: 54

1 Professor, PhD

13 Masters

25 Bachelors

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 licensed software +Wide bandwidth, high speed internet, wifi connection

Quiet study areas

Group discussion room AV room

Multimedia classroom with international standards

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 databas:

Science Dierect, 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)

28.000 50.000 6.000 220

Library & Information Resources

Main Products and Services

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

Sinh viênCán bộ

Học viên cao học

Ngoài

281864

721 730 3653

Numbers of LRC users

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

Organizing conference, workshops, seminars

Training program of Bill & Melinda Gates' project at LRC

Training program of World Population Council

Cooperation with University of Hawaii

Cooperation with RMIT University

Our strategic partners

Cooperation opportunities

Converting traditional library into new modern, digital

library and information center

Information resource sharing

Education and training cooperation

Thank you very much

for your attention !

Questions

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Vietnam

• In South-East Asia

• Neighbors– China

– Laos

– Cambodia

– Ocean

• 82 mil. habitants

• Long country

• Major cities:– Hanoi (Capital – North)

– Ho Chi Minh city [Saigon] (South)

– Hue (central)