June 10, 2005
Vietnamese Officials Puzzle Over Books' Disappearance
WORLD BEAT
The Vietnamese government's social-services division is baffled by the disappearance of nearly a quarter of its library holdings in Ho Chi Minh City.
Ho Anh Dung, who until April was director of the Books Inventorying Board of the Southern Institute of Social Sciences, reported that 31,214 books were stolen from 2002 to 2004. While such a loss would be staggering for any library, the fact that 28,000 of the books were in Russian has administrators dumbfounded. Even
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