If anybody wanted to start a library today, the first recommendation would be to learn from the activities of fellow librarians and engage in library consortiums to ensure maximum access to resources and peers knowledge. So for most librarians, in one way or another networking is part of their daily life.

Basic toolkits I used were:

Skype for voice / all the talking; it works ok also for feed back and comments

Dimdim Myscreen for screensharing, (free account for small meetings; NIAS has a paid account that allows us for up to 1000 participants)

Preah Vihear is an unimaginably beautiful place. It is a province, but it takes it's name after an 11^th Century Khmer Temple, which towers over the landscape on a 525-metre high mountain. The temple is stunningly well-preserved - there are still carvings of dancing Apsaras, Buddha statues and stone stair cases leading up to a perhaps even more breathtaking view over unspoiled nature.

That is utterly unimportant, though.

Years back a World Bank report concluded that the institutional underpinnings of sustainable development rest on two things:

At the seminar, we want to initiate a discussion among researchers, information specialists and representatives from the private sector and state in Vietnam on: