Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism in collaboration with Can Tho City People's Committee recently hosted the preliminary round of Southern Excellent Librarian Competition 2017. Candidates went through 3 testing parts, including writing about initiatives in improving library activities; theory of legal documents on library and specialized knowledge of library; introducing books and answering questions of knowledge, behaviors. At the end, Binh Duong Province Library won the first prize in book introduction contest; the organizers selected the top 13 contestants to compete in National Excellent Librarian Contest 2018. Reported by T.Ly – Translated by Ngoc Huynh