Activities - Library Professionals Organization | Library Association of Singapore

13 Jun 2012

Professional Talk – Mr. Richard Ovenden, Bodleian Libraries

NLB organized a talk by Mr. Richard Ovenden, the Deputy Librarian of the Bodleian Libraries from the University of Oxford on the 13th June 2012 in the Possibility Room at the National Library Building. This talk was open for LAS members to attend. Mr. Ovenden gave a talk titled ‘The future of the past: How […]

06 Jun 2012

WSQ/LAS Level 2 training for Support Collection Maintenance Works

LAS is pleased to organize the another run of the WSQ/LAS Level 2 training for Support Collection Maintenance Works on 2 – 3 July 2012. This 2 day course will be held at Agatha Room, Level 3, Toa Payoh Public Library (map). REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN. Register at: https://wis.ntu.edu.sg/pls/webexe/REGISTER_NTU.REGISTER?EVENT_ID=OA12053010430217 This is one of the 5 competency based programmes at entry level […]

01 Jun 2012

June 2012 Update

Hi all, Yes, June we have hit mid-way of the year – so what’s coming up? If we were to look at things from an astronomic scale – the Venus Transit, that’s what. On June 6 – for Singaporeans, we will get the rare opportunity (Venus transits occur in pairs of 8 years every century […]

25 May 2012

Citation, Journal Impact Factor and H-Index as Indicators of Research Performance

This workshop is intended for librarians, information managers, researchers and anyone interested in understanding “Citation and its derivatives” which have been used as quality indicators in scholarly activities across various fields of knowledge.

18 May 2012

Mid-May Updates

How time flies it’s already past the middle of May and yes the LAS AGM was held on the 12th May 2012. For those of you whom have missed it – you can catch some of the photos taken at the event from our LAS Facebook pages (please look under the Photo Album area). Those […]

17 May 2012

Battleship.Letter from Gene

In Battleship, some alien super high tech ships had landed somewhere near Pearl Harbour where some also high tech digitally run american destroyers were having some naval exercise. Invariably the more high tech aliens decimated our digital stalwarts one by one. In a plot twist a la Space Cowboys involving an aging Clint Eastwood saving the world, the only ship left to face the rampaging extra terrestrials was a 70 year old battleship which had somehow become a museum for school kids cos - guess what - it's all analog. Yet somehow it was unsinkable and in a strategem that was all about reading the right book and extracting just what was contextually appropriate, the hero with help of a crew of old shipmen who all looked like our grandpas... well, won't spoil the movie for you.

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