Re: Take something back to Vietnam

[Aiviet Nguyen <aiviet@cat.syr.edu>]

Hi Anh So+n and friends,

   I am faithful to the bottom up approach and found "there are only two 
places" a bad idea. Those places have better books than you can have.
  Students need text books. I think those places don't need "junky books".
It is not worth to copy and send books in a large scale. ( Of course if 
you have connection with a working group in VN occassionally you can do 
that).
  I have quite different views on this topics. But I don't think the top 
down approach believers would be interested in.
  Just let you know that there are few places in VN where you can find
more updated books than your Department libraries. ( The budget cut in 
the US is universal, don't say that it is not true).
  Cheers
  Aiviet
  


On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, Dam Son wrote:

> 
> On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, Quoc-Lan Nguyen wrote:
> 
> > FAHASA (Co^ng ty phat' hanh` sach' TP HCM) co' dich vu nha^p sach' cu~ (original
> > version) ve^` ban' tru*c tie^p'. U*u tie^n cho cac' sach' ve^` Computer Science,
> > Economic, Management .., va` luo*ng sach' ve^` kho^ng it'. Buo*c' vao` cac'
> > qua^y` sach' nay`, hay nhin` vao` tu? sach' cac' co^ng ty may' tinh', kho' noi'
> > ra*ng` Vnam thie^u' tho^n' tai` lie^u. Cac' chuye^n nganh` khac' (Hoa', Co*
> > Khi' ...) it' sach' ve^` va` cung~ ha^u` nhu* kho^ng co' ai dich ra.
> 
> Ca'c sa'ch gia'o khoa hie^.n dda.i o+? My~ ra^'t nhie^`u, ddu? ca'c
> nga`nh, nhu+ng ra^'t dda('t ($70/quye^?n), kho^ng hie^?u ne^'u la`m xerox
> ro^`i gu+?i ve^` thi` co' pha?i la` good idea kho^ng nhi? ?
> 
> Also, I recieved an email from Prof. Truong Nguyen Tran in France, in 
> which he wrote (we exchanged email about physics books but I guess 
> something can be done in other fields):
> 
> "It is a good idea to send basic books to VN, as you suggested. I assume
> that you can have the book free of charge and want the vietnamese
> institutions pay for the shipping charge. There are only 2 places which is
> willing to do so but you must have their agreement in advance. These 2
> persons are: Nguyen van Hieu from Hanoi and Tran Ha Anh from the Nuclear
> Research Institute of Dalat."
> 
> Son.
>