Re: Take something back to Vietnam

[vuca@envi.env.civil.saitama-u.ac.jp (Vu Thanh Ca)]

Dear friends,

I was and will be out of campus for some days and has asked
Dam Son to send VN News.

I agree with anh Bao's idea. There are many books, published  even before
1980, which are still very usefull in VN (even for me in Japan). Judy, if you 
have some text books in the fields of Ocean Engineering, Oceanology, 
Coastal Enginering, Fluid Mechanics, Meteorology, Hydraulics and Hydrology, 
published before 1990, please let me know the titles. I am ready to pay the 
postage for you to send  interesting books to some VN universities and 
institutes.

Bye to all VNSA folks. I will be back to see you later.

Kindest Regards,

Ca.

At 10:23 AM 97.3.28 -0600, Ho Tu Bao wrote:
>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)