13 Dec 2006
Remembering Lim Kek Hwa: Mentor and Friend

“I remember Kek Hwa as a very caring and helpful mentor at the National Library’s then Reference Services Division. As Head of the Division, her desk used to face the entrance to the Division. She always had 5 to 8 reference titles sitting on her desk as she used them to help staff with the […]

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08 Dec 2006
Arts community at NLB for woodcut prints show

An important slice of Singapore’s art history was celebrated last month, when the National Library on Victoria Street held a two-week exhibit of woodcut prints from the 1960s. “Imprints of the Past: Remembering the 1966 Woodcut Show” commemorates Singapore’s first woodcut print exhibition, held at the old National Library on Stamford Road 40 years ago. […]

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06 Dec 2006
New Media Viewing Experience at SP

The typical student usually considers the library as a hangout either around periods when examinations are looming or project deadlines are drawing near. Here at Singapore Polytechnic (SP), not only are there the latest captivating books and multimedia materials added to the library’s collection, the students now have an additional reason to frequent the SP Library! […]

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Library Associations Singapore
23 Sep 2006
September 2006 Update

Welcome to the first weblog issue for the Singapore Libraries Bulletin published by the Library Association of Singapore (LAS)! Starting with this September 2006 issue, we are going totally virtual without printing hard copies to distribute to LAS members. We are making use of the weblog platform with the aim of being more interactive, as […]

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Library Associations Singapore
23 Sep 2006
Adapting Library Space to Changing User Needs at UBC

Ms Catherine Quinlan, University Librarian of The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre at University of British Columbia (UBC) gave a talk on 24 May 2006. The talk was held at NUS Central Library and well attended by over 40 people. She suggested that we re-think how library space is used and not just as a […]

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Library Associations Singapore
23 Sep 2006
LAS Gold Medal Awarded to Chew Siew San

The Library Association of Singapore (LAS) Gold Medal was awarded to Chew Siew San upon completion of the MSc (Information Studies) at NTU in July 2006. The Medal is awarded to the student with the best results in the Information Studies stream. Here is what Siew San had to say about why she choose librarianship […]

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