Cantho University Library was founded in 1966. Its system consists of the Central Library and eight branch libraries. Its collections are centrally acquired and classified according to Dewey Decimal Classification System. The Central Library maintains a large collection of books, journals and newspapers in different languages: Vietnamese, English, French, Chinese, Japanese...especially the specialized collection of FAO, OMS, IRRIS, JARQ...

	1987-2001, using CDS/ISIS sponsored by SAREC
	Since 2001, using ILIB - an integrated library management solution with MARC21 format, AACR2, UNICODE... standards

MISSIONS & OBJECTIVES

1. Providing the resources, services and facilities necessary to support the missions of the university and the increasing knowledge need of its faculties, students, and staff.

2. Centrally acquiring and classifying all kinds of materials.

3. Professional training for the branch libraries and “Satellite” libraries.

4. Integrating and exchanging information with the international and national academic libraries.

( Statistics in February 2002 )

1. Area: 1.632 m²

2. Books: 50.000 titles / 200.000 copies

3. Journals & newspapers: 885 titles

4. Electronic Database: ILIB

5. Learning facilities: TV, Video machines, Computers, Tape recorders …

6. Others: Maps, Video tapes, cassettes, floppy disks, CD – ROMs , …

Open-access, self-services

1. General Reading Room: 300 seats. Reading privileges are available to those whose present proper library cards.

2. Journal & Newspaper Reading Room: 30 seats

3. Graduate Reading Room: 40 seats

4. Circulation Desk: Loans are three books per week for students and five books per two weeks for teachers. Books can be renewed for an addition week or two, but they must be brought to the Circulation Desk

5. Audio-visual Room: Training English and French listening skills with CNN, TV5, CNBC…

+ Reference: Patrons are encouraged to ask for assistance at the reference desk & other service desks.

+ OPAC: (Online Public Access Cataloging) allows users to search by titles, authors, keywords, classification numbers, ISSN, ISBN… It performs full-text searching on the abstract of publications or on the whole digitalized documents.

+ Electronic resources: Mainly CD-ROMs, are available at the Reference Desk and Networking Section.

+ Photocopy: Request for photocopy will be considered at the librarian’s desk.

TECHNICAL SERVICES

1. Acquisition Section

2.Cataloging Section

3.Bibliography & Information Section

4.Networking Section

5.Binding Section

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