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15 Jun 2012

Fill Our Shelves, Suggest A Book

The Public Libraries Singapore (PLS) of the National Library Board is trying out its hand at crowdsourcing. It is asking its users to recommend book titles and putting these crowd recommended titles to vote by its crowd as well. Prizes are being offered for the Top 3 recommendations as well as most popular title within […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

02 May 2012

May 2012 Update

Hi all, How time flies! It’s May again and yes – it is also the month of our Annual General Meeting (AGM) – this time round is on 12 May 2012. It will be held at The Pod of the National Library Building. It would be a great opportunity to catch up with old friends […]

02 Apr 2012

April 2012 Update

Hi all, Guess most of us survived April’s Fool day unscathed, so now we can look ahead for stuff coming at us. Before that though, a quick recap of what transpired at the joint LAS-PPM conference last month (Hilary did a great job summarizing his experiences) – here’s a short synopsis of important things to […]

25 Mar 2012

LAS-PPM Conference Melaka 16 to 17 March 2012

Thursday 15 March 2012 – Travel & Accomodations Journey to Malacca – 31 librarians from various organisations in Singapore had registered for the conference (Editor’s note: Mr. Choy FC who went on his own from KL was our 32nd participant from LAS). As the coach crossed the causeway, we were freed of the tentacles of […]

23 Mar 2012

NYP Library’s 3D Tour

Nanyang Polytechnic Library (NYP Library) has just launched a 3D interactive library map for their library. This is aimed at helping their users get around the spaces within the library. The map is also available via their NYP Library portal. For more information and pictures – please check out their facebook link and blog. Reported by Justin […]

07 Mar 2012

Talks at Libraries

The Li Ka Shing Library (SMU) is hosting a talk titled “Fitting Facilities for Today’s Library Users” by Janine Schmidt on the 14 March 2012 at 3.30pm to 5.30pm. For more information please see this web page: Information Please remember you need to register by 9 March 2012 using this link: https://registration.smu.edu.sg/prjreg/Library/event.asp The Nanyang Technological […]

01 Mar 2012

March 2012 Update

Hi LAS members, So what can we look forward to in March? Well, we finally were able to publish the SJLIM 2011 issue. It contains five articles please read them from: http://www.las.org.sg/wp/resources/publications/sjlim1/sjlim-vol-40-2011/ Come 14 March 2012 it will be the International Pi Day (not the Pie you eat but that strange irrational constant we use to […]