Acquisitions Programs
LC-Jakarta Office had successfully builds the strong networks for monitoring and acquiring the new publications from Vietnam. Annually, more than two thousand of monographs in imprints, digitals, and audio visual formats, hundreds of new serial titles and thousands of old serials were received for LC and CAPSEA participants via suppliers and exchange partners. Most of the high research value publications were published by the government institutions, NGO, and the international agencies based in Vietnam.
Since the last two years, LC-Jakarta was projected and focused to search and collected the local provinces of Vietnam, especially the provincial periodicals. LC-Jakarta has successfully acquired major of these provincial publications and now we are in process of selection and subscriptions for LC from the vendors. We are planning to introduce this project to the CAPSEA as soon as possible.
LC-Jakarta is now focusing to acquire the new digital products in Vietnam. There are various publisher /producers interested to produce the Vietnamese e-books and e-newspapers in Vietnam, especially the Vietnamese newspapers in PDF format.
The staff welcome new participants and visits from scholars.
For further information, including joining the cost-recovery CAPSEA program, please contact JakartaAcquisitions@loc.gov