1.  Inaugural Business Librarians Tea Session @ Imagination Room, National Library

Over 30 business librarians held an informal meeting on 23 Jun 09, hosted by NLB.  The group comprises business librarians from NLB, NUS, NTU, SMU, SIM, EDB, IE Singapore, IRAS, MAS, MTI, Bain & Co., etc.  SLS was represented by Susan Song-Lim, Manimekalai Thirumalai, and Hsu Yahsin.

The objective is to organize informal gatherings so that those interested can build a network amongst the business librarians in Singapore and provide support to one another when needed.  The group shared their challenges at work and expectations of how this network could help them or their libraries.  While one or two have great ambitions for the group (e.g. building subject repo), majority are contented just to have the opportunity to meet up,  make new friends, tap on one another’s resources and share information.

The group agreed to meet quarterly.  Each meeting, to be hosted and chaired by respective libraries/institutions, will discuss an issue of interest.  The next meeting to be held in Sept/Oct will be at the NTU.  In the meantime, the group agreed to work via email on its Terms of Reference (ToR) and to create a brief profile for each participating library.  The objective is to keep the ToR simple and informal so as not to encourage more participation from the business libraries community.

 

2.  Law Librarians Group’s Sharing Session @ Library Training Room, Li Ka Shing Library, SMU

On 16 July 09, Charlotte Gill conducted a sharing session on creating a customized current awareness service using RSS feeds. A total of 25 participants attended the training.  Besides the Law Librarians Group, it is also open to SLS committee members so that those interested can learn and create their subject specific awareness service to be shared with their respective groups.  Owing to resource constraints, SLS is unable to open this session to other LAS members.  The participants generally found the session to be very useful and relevant, and agreed that they would explore implementing such a service back in their workplace. 

Susan Song-Lim