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09 Mar 2022

Reflections from the 2021 LAS-PPM Conference (PM Session)

The afternoon session of the 2021 LAS-PPM Conference consisted of six presentations by librarians from Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. The topics ranged from rebuilding library to digitalisation of learning. The session closed with a Q&A segment facilitated by PPM President Dr Rashidah Binti Bolhassan. The respective abstracts accompanying the presentation can be found on the […]

09 Mar 2022

Reflections from the 2021 LAS-PPM Conference (AM Session)

Taking place on 6 October 2021, 9.30am – 5pm (GMT +8), the LAS-PPM Conference went online for the first time in 2021, bringing new opportunities for the library community to learn from each other in this new normal. With the theme “Collab | Camaraderie | Commune”, the conference brought to its participants presentations of how […]

07 Feb 2022

NUS Chinese Library: A Closer Look

s. This update promises a slower, closer look at one of the NUS Libraries’ collections; and in the spirit of Chinese New Year, features the Wan Boo Sow Chinese Library.

13 Jan 2022

NUS Libraries Revamp: Done!

"We’re basically transforming the library to be ever-ready." Three years, four months and one long pandemic later, the NUS Libraries Central Library revamp is finally complete!

30 Dec 2021

Pandemic IL series: A Picture Says a Thousand Words; But Words Don’t Come Easy

This is a celebratory dedication through words and sentences, to our library and information colleagues, especially instruction librarians, who may have during the ongoing pandemic, experienced P.A.I.N. and P.R.I.D.E. in various ways. Pandemonium We all coped differently with the constantly changing directives and protocols from governments, agencies and institutions but most librarians continued to ‘keep […]

23 Dec 2021

Pandemic IL Series: Let’s Go Digital – Highlights from the SURE programmes 2021

For the first time this year, the National Library Board’s Prove It! Contest went fully digital. An annual school event since 2013, student teams from 27 secondary schools put their information literacy and creativity skills to the test. Videos were created by the students, sharing their experiences of applying the S.U.R.E. (Source, Understand, Research, Evaluate) […]

16 Dec 2021

Pandemic IL Series: Pain and Pride @ NTU

The move to virtual instructional workshops happened suddenly and quickly gave librarians little time to fully explore the features of these new mediums before implementation. This move especially highlighted the importance of teamwork and the need to set clear learning objectives for our workshops. Firstly, to understand the user experience better, we conducted many dry […]

09 Dec 2021

Pandemic IL Series: Lots and Lots

When I mulled over what was painful or gainful from this episode of pandemic-Zoom-vs-face-to-face, I realized something particularly odd. It wasn’t painful when I had to ensure my new laptop was fully enabled and ready for online teaching. It was just a requirement that came with getting a new laptop. I mean, I got a […]

02 Dec 2021

Pandemic IL Series: Pain and Pride @ SIT

When the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) Library Team tumbled down the COVID-19 rabbit hole, it soon became clear that the whole situation, although surreal, wasn’t as chaotic as it could have been. We were fortunate because we had already been prepared with frequent team-building activities and online work. As a strong team who was […]

25 Nov 2021

Pandemic IL Series: Pain and Pride @ SUSS

Beaming faces at the instructional sessions has given way to black lifeless screens, like a dark curtain cloaking these sessions. However, continuing such classes was vital to the library. They gave us an opportunity to stay connected to the students, assuring them that even in a global pandemic, the library would be there for them. […]