LEADERSHIP TRAINING FOR VIETNAMESE LIBRARIANS.

The article presents information on the Boston, Massachusetts-based Simmons College that has been awarded with a grant of USD 1.8 million to prepare a new generation of Vietnamese librarians for key leadership positions in some of Vietnam's largest university libraries. The grant is endowed by the Atlantic Philanthropies, which is a group of Bermuda-based charitable foundations. These new libraries are likely to help Vietnam's educational system. According to the grant, 25 Vietnamese will be sent to study at Simmons College's Graduate School of Library and Information Science. After returning to Vietnam, they will be taught by Simmons faculty, which will put emphasis on developing leadership and information management skills in them. On the completion of the new program, the Vietnamese librarians will receive a master's degree in library and information science from Simmons.