Published: 00:00 Thursday - January 21, 2010
The province of Val de Marne in France will provide the Library for the northern province of Yen Bai and an air conditioning system to preserve its historic documents.
A memorandum of understanding for the donation was signed between Yen Bai’s authority and a representative from the Val de Marne Council after a recent visit to Yen Bai.
Val de Marne also helped the library to digitalise the documents, build two reading rooms and train librarians.
At present, the library has nearly 400 books dating back to 80-300 years. The documents include handwritten letters in ethnic minority languages but 26,000 pages have been damaged and need to be restored.
