A three-day workshop for the ?Improvement of skills for writing research papers in the Humanities for international journals? at the Learning Resource Center of Thai Nguyen University, Thai Nguyen, Vietnam required some readjustment of focus between Wednesday morning, May 26th, and Friday afternoon, the 28th, but the final session revealed students exceeding, perhaps, their own expectations.… Read the rest
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Arrive in Ha Noi and then move to Thai N...
Sydney and Terry arrived in Noi Bai airport at 10:00 pm on Friday May 21, and took a cab to the Salute Hotel on 7 Hang Dau, Str, Hoan Kiem District in Ha Noi.? ?It turned out to be a great hotel, located in the center of the old district near Hoan Kiem Lake.??… Read the rest
Project involving Thai Nguyen University...
The Thai Nguyen University Learning Resource Center was awarded the 2009 Innovative Libraries in Developing Countries program grant from the Elsevier Foundation.?? Only six libraries received the grant.??? As described on the Elsevier website,
Supporting Research Communities in Writing, Publishing and Sharing their Works in Thai Nguyen University and the Northern Mountainous area of Vietnam, Thai Nguyen University, Vietnam
This Elsevier Foundation grant will enable the Thai Nguyen Learning Resource Center, the central library of Thai Nguyen University, to substantially boost Vietnamese scholarship and Scientific, Technical and Medical information exchange at the regional, national and international levels.… Read the rest
Polotsk and Vitebsk
On my last day in Belarus before leaving, we visited Polotsk and Vitebsk, near the Russian border. It was a very full day. Unfortunately, due to a hard drive incident, my pictures of this day are lost. Peter Lapo and I were driven by a young man to Polotsk.… Read the rest
Khatyn – National Memorial Complex
The next day we went to the National Memorial Complex at Khatyn.?? This memorial is the sites of the formed village of Khatyn, razed to the ground in the spring 1943, and its inhabitants burned to death.?? It is not to be confused with Katyn, the forest at which the bodies of 22,000 Polish offices and civilians, taken in the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, were shot and buried by the Soviet secret police, the NKVD.??… Read the rest
The Belarusian State Museum of the Great...
Friday, July 3, is Independence Day in Belarus.??? We attempted to see the parade of tanks and other military vehicles and to hear Alexander Lukashenko, the president of Belarus.?? However, we were turned back at a security checkpoint because of my knapsack.??… Read the rest