Samsung opens S.hub sharing space at Vietnam National Library

S.hub, spanning the lobby of the first floor and one part of the second floor, has several functional areas including an area for events, an area for exhibition, an area for audiovisual, an area for study by oneself and an area for group discussion. 

The total area is 1,200 square metres. Samsung equipped the place with LFD screen, many computers for quick look up in the lobby, tablets and desktops for study by oneself on the second floor, touch screens and speakers.

People can go to www.s-hub.vn to book the meeting room or the event space or the group discussion area and register to join events held at S.hub. The website will also be updated with summaries of past events. S.hub will host activities such as forum, presentations, and competitions in many themes such as creativity, startups and soft skills for young people to meet and learn from each other.

“I believe that S.hub at the National Library of Vietnam is going to bring a library service model that is new and creative, and be a safe space for young people to read and create,” said Kieu Thuy Nga, director of the library. “Together with Samsung, we want to create an attractive space to learn and share knowledge.”

“We want to combine the modern equipment of Samsung and the knowledge resource of the library in order to optimize a space to learn and share knowledge at S.hub. I believe that S.hub is going to help young people in Hanoi learn, connect, and be inspired,” said Kim Cheolgi, general director of Samsung Vina.

For the past 20 years, Samsung Electronics Vietnam has had many community activities, especially those in the field of education, helping in the training of skills and encouraging the passion for knowledge in young people.

The projects Samsung has been involved in include the Smart Library 1.0 project, which lasted from 2011 to 2015, in which Samsung gave 200,000 books, 300 computers, tablets and DVD players to middle school students, serving about 50,000 students. The Smart Library 2.0 project, of which the S.hub is the embodiment, was piloted in the Ho Chi Minh City Library of Science in 2015.