This year, our E-Resource Discovery Day (ERDD) took place on September 13. There was a mixture of many familiar elements as well as a touch of the new.
As usual, our vendors came to showcase the library’s e-resources. We had a forum quiz in the form of a scavenger hunt with the rewards being a goodie bag and a chance to take part in the lucky draw. We received more than 500 entries for this quiz and it was truly heartening to see so many students and staff engaging with our vendors. We also had an online quiz prior to ERDD day, which garnered over 500 entries! This was definitely the largest number of entries we have ever received!
Even though we decided against having performances this year, we had a game booth during lunch hours. Participants had to throw a dart to qualify for a question. If they answered the question correctly, they would win a prize. The game allowed students to learn about e-resources in a fun way while winning prizes. We gave out more than 180 prizes at the game booth. Apart from learning about the databases and e-journals available in the library, we also took the opportunity to promote our new discovery service, FindMore@NUSL.
Here are the prize winners for the various draws:
Forum Quiz Grand Draw
No. | Prize (Sponsor) | Winner |
1st | MacBook 11″ (Elsevier) | Zhou Jieliang (A01056XXX) |
2nd | iPad (I-Group) | Nica Policarpio (A01020XXX) |
3rd | Coach bag (CCH) | Zhao Xianbo (A00682XXX) |
4th | Nikon CoolPix L310 camera (Wiley) | Khong Duc Thng (A00980XXX) |
5th | iPod Nano (16GB) and watchband (Ovid) | Ko Sung Chan (A01009XXX) |
6th | Turtle Beach universal amplified stereo gaming headset (Emerald) | Lim Mei Eng (A0094XXX) |
7th | iPod Touch (8GB) (Sage) | Sudarkodi Sukuman (HT0819XXX) |
8th | Nintendo Wii console set (UBS) | Ng Su Fen (A00709XXX) |
9th | Western Digital external portable hard drive, 1TB (EBSCO) | Wong Shun Qi (U0957XXX) |
10th | Buffalo portable hard drive (Emerald) | Loh Sze Sian (U0911XXX) |
11th | iPod Nano (8GB) (Alexander Street Press) | Wu Gaofeng (A00755XXX) |
12th | Waterman pen (ThomsonReuters) | Ong Shi Rong (A00812XXX) |
13th | $80 Kinokuniya vouchers (Kinokuniya) | Ramadoss Karthik (A00755XXX) |
Online Quiz Lucky Draw
No. | Prize (Sponsor) | Winner |
1st | One iPod Touch (8GB) with iPod Touch case (IEEE) | Pioy Thampipattanakul (U0917XXX) |
2nd | S$150 shopping vouchers (Cengage) | Chen Jiaying (A00715XXX) |
3rd | Fuji Instax Mini 7 (Springer) | Koh Sin Yee (A01058XXX) |
4th | Waterman pen (ThomsonReuters) | Arghya Banerjee (A00822XXX) |
5th | Sony MP3 walkman player (4GB) (Emerald) | Lee Mia Ching, Dr (043XXX) |
6th | Alienware mouse (Emerald) | Munirah Bte Alias (A00838XXX) |
7th | 3X 500MB USB drive (ProQuest) | Han Nuo Min (A00732XXX) |
8th | 2 KeepCups (ThomsonReuters) | Thng Jing Xiong (U0958XXX) |
9th | $40 Kinokuniya vouchers (Kinokuniya) | Theodore Willian Salim (A0084XXX) |
10th | $30 Kinokuniya vouchers (Kinokuniya) | Chaw Kar Yan (A00747XXX) |
We would like to thank our vendors for their generous support of the event, and also all students and staff who participated in the quizzes. We hope to see you again next year! Until then, do check out our Flickr page for more photos!
Umarani Jayapal
on behalf of the ERDD2012 team