E-Resource Discovery Day 2013

The 6th annual NUS Libraries E-Resource Discovery Day (ERDD) took place on Thursday, 29 August at the Central Forum. We had plenty of activities such as quizzes and games to help our students be better acquainted with the E-Resources.

 

As a pre-event activity, we held a two-week Online Quiz. This year the quiz was tougher as participants were required to score full marks before being eligible for the lucky draw. On the day of the event itself, some of our E-Resource vendors set up booths to promote the use of E-Resources to the NUS community. Over 300 NUS Staff and students participated in the Forum Quiz where they learnt how to do certain tasks of varying difficulty on NUS’ subscribed E-Resources from the vendors and be eligible for the Forum Quiz Lucky Draw.

This year we had a new lunch time event called the New E-Resource Discovery Game Show (NERD). We had 12 participants who went through 1 nail biting group round of a variety of questions to determine our top four who then battled it out in a fastest fingers first race! Everyone walked away a winner that day though! Do check out our winners at the end of this post!

 

Of course, we had our popular NUS Fund Raising Sale this year from 29 to 30 August. We placed our donation boxes at all the NUS Libraries and encouraged everyone to donate their books that were still in good condition from 23rd May to 5th August, which were then priced and organized into various categories. For our Garage Sale, our items came from some generous colleagues. Some of these items were displayed on a mannequin in NUS Central Library’s lobby. On the days of the sale, most were quite impressed with the variety and the low prices of the books and items in our Fund Raising sale. We also had special offers this year like a tie up with Ben & Jerry’s in giving away a scoop of ice cream to those who spent a certain amount at our sale and flash sales!

We collected a total of $11,500 at the end of the sale. This amount was then given to Annual NUS Giving Bursary Fund, which is a fund dedicated to assisting students with financial needs.  We would like to thank everyone who either donated books and/or came down to purchase books and items for our sale! We hope to see you again at future NUS Libraries events! Do check out our Instagram account (@nuslibraries , #erdd2013)  for photos & videos!

Online Quiz Lucky Draw winners

Prize Winner
1st: iPad mini 16 GB with Wifi (iGroup) Koh Yi-Da David
2nd: iPod Nano (16GB) (UBS) Vivian Tai Huan Fen
3rd: Philips digital wireless headphones and clock radio (Taylor & Francis) Lam Mingjun
4th: S$150 Kinokuniya vouchers (Kinokuniya) Kendrick Okeefe
5th: S$100 Kinokuniya vouchers (Lexis Nexis) Li Xiaoxi
6th: iPod shuffle (Sage) Ting Jun Xiang
7th: Creative D80 Bluetooth Speakers (Proquest) Yuen Wee Siang
8th: Portable mobile charger (One Source) Dr Koh Geok Liang
9th: Wireless mouse (MIMS) Ko Zheng Teng

Forum Quiz Lucky Draw winners

Prize Winner
1st: iPad Wifi 32GB (Elsevier) Le Sy Quoc
2nd: iPad mini 16 GB with Wifi (Ovid) Liao Fang Bo
3rd: iPad Bluetooth keyboard (IEEE) Dang Truong Hoang Ngan
4th: Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0) (Wiley) Chauhan Jay Mukesh
5th: iPod Nano (EBSCO) Zhu Yi
6th: S$150 Capitaland vouchers (Gale Cengage) Ashiwini Kumao Sham
7th: Carbon Audio Zooka Wireless Bluetooth Speaker (Thomson Reuters) Vu Thi Thuy Trang
8th: Swatch Watch (Springer) Chew Rong Ping, Victoria
9th: S$100 Kinokuniya vouchers (LexisNexis) Sahar Tavakoli
10th: TDK Headphones (ProQuest) Zhou Jieliang

N.E.R.D Game Show winners

Prize Winner
1st: One iPod Nano (16GB) + One iPod Nano WatchBand (Ovid) Shubhabrata Sen
2nd: Nikon Coolpix L610 camera (red; limited edition) (participating vendors of ERDD 2013) Wesley Teo
3rd: SkullCandy Hesh earphones (participating vendors of ERDD 2013) Chen Jiaying
4th: Seagate 1 TB external desktop hard drive (participating vendors of ERDD 2013) Viswam Parthiban
Consolation prizes 5-12: $20 Capitaland Vouchers (participating vendors of ERDD 2013) Shivam BhardwajJimmy Lam MingJun

Vishnukumar VJ

Sravana Kumar

Rishita Changede

Loke Pei Ling Yvonne

Dave Mangindaan

Qin Bin

 

 

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