Hi all, the end of the year beckons and a lot of folks would be busy with Christmas and end of year celebrations – so a happy festive season to all and of course for those of us who qualify – looking forward to your year-end bonuses!

This is also the traditional time to look back and reflect on the year as well as plan for next year.  The year has been quite eventful for LAS – we had a new team of council member recently taking the reins – our major event was of course the LAS conference LFT2012.  Looking ahead 2013 will be another milestone year for LAS as we will be hosting the IFLA WLIC2013 event.

For WLIC 2013, LAS is planning to have a souvenir publication – “Memory are made of these: 100-word stories from 100 Librarians” – we currently only have stories from about 30 plus librarians – yep we are quite short of stories, so Librarians in Singapore – please give us your submissions! You don’t have to worry about hitting the 100-word format exactly – we have an editorial team that can quickly help you with the technicalities – but what we do need are your memories and basic facts about your library experiences.  Please contribute actively – much thanks in advance!

Sad news received was that sometime last week, we learn of one of our librarians, Chan Luck passing on.  For the benefit of our younger members, it would be great for peers to contribute short articles about Chan Luck.  Please submit your articles to publications@las.org.sg for collation into a simple publication titled “In memory of Chan Luck”.  Thanks!

Yit