Congress of Southeast Asian Librarians

With effect from this year, the Singapore Journal of Library and Information Management (SJLIM) goes green and open access. The LAS Council  approved the proposal on 8 May 2009. Green SJLIM goes green by being available online only. We save on resources by not having to print the journal and to mail it to individual members. It [...]

1. Vietnam – the Host Country The Vietnamese Library Association (VLA) is very young, having only been established in 2006. Interesting to note is that association was founded at a conference that was also held in Hanoi (Pham, 2007). The VLA members are working hard but finding that one of the problems they face is that they [...]

The 14th CONSAL conference in Hanoi was a large gathering of librarians from Southeast Asia, trainers, educators and other information professionals who are involved in the ongoing library science education. It is a tremendous achievement on the part of the organisers and our host, the National Library of Vietnam, to have made this conference so successful [...]