Other information provided by the director:
Open to the public daily from 0800 to 1130 and 1400-1630.
Annual membership fee is 200 kip (approx 4 cents, Canadian)
Approximately 6,000 members as of Sept. 1999, with an average of 800 new members/yr.
Most materials may be borrowed from the library for a period of two weeks.
Manual count is done of all visitors and of all items borrowed. In 1998, the library:
Lent 10,440 items
Had 22,224 visitors
The library has an active Childrens' Services department; in 1998 150 storytelling sessions were hosted in the library on Saturdays and Sundays and in schools and community centres in the Vientiane area. The National Reading Promotion Project, delivered to communities all over Laos, is a very successful program coordinated by the Library Director and delivered by Childrens' Services staff.