Re: Take something back to Vietnam

[Ho Tu Bao <bao@jaist.ac.jp>]

Judy Ladinsky wrote:
> 
> At 06:06 PM 3/27/97 -0600, you wrote:

Hi Judy (Bonjour Madame!):

> Please do not bring books older than 5 years- Vietnam has asked for
> books and journals within the last 5 years, 

I do not think it is a general and always correct rule.
In fact, it depends on books and  concrete situations (e.g., may be good
only for some institutions having already journals of years 80s). I feel
you may need to explain to our colleagues there in your next trip. Some
people may wrongly understand in requiring only new books? I believe
that many best textbooks were written before 1990, says

- basic level textbooks
- textbooks for slowly changing fields (?)
- even for fast changing fields, e.g. IT, many best textbboks for data
structures, databases, algorithms, ... 
- Nearly 1/3 of research papers I (may be others?) use now also are
older than 5 years.

Other concern in vnsa (not me) is whether your Committee still sending
book to VN?

Of course new books are generally better, and do not send any book not
in use from abroad.

I will try to write at School tomorrow.

Best,
Bao
(Salut to other people there)