By Nur Diyana The past semester’s recess week was anything but ordinary for librarians Gandhi and Diyana, who embarked on an extraordinary research trip to Sulawesi, alongside Dr Mohamed…
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By Sim Chuin Peng, Marcus Wong, Shelley Wu, Nur Diyana & Chow Chai Khim We are thrilled to announce the acquisition of private papers belonging to philanthropist Yeap Chor…
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By Priyanka Sharma The New Atlas of Commercial Gazetteer of the Straits Settlements & Federated Malay States, published in 1917, offers a comprehensive exploration of British Malaya’s history, resources,…
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By Tim Yap Fuan Kubota Beisen (1852-1906), born to an innkeeper, had a knack for drawing from a young age. Despite his father’s hopes for him to take over…
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By Nur Diyana NUS Libraries and Universitas Muslim Indonesia (UMI) are collaborating on preserving, digitising, and translating the Daeng Paduppa manuscript that sheds light on the historical and trade…
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By Diyanah Nasuha Binte Omar Bahri Fancy taking a trip to 19th century Southeast Asia? We’ve yet to get our hands on a working time machine, but we can…
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By Jolyn Tay Did you know that Singapore was once called the “Queen of Far Eastern Seas”, or that Fort Canning was called “the Forbidden Hill”? How did colonial…
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By Jolyn Tay Borneo and the Indian Archipelago: with drawings of costume and scenery is a narrative of the proceedings of Her Majesty’s vessel, H.M.S. Samarang, during her last…
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By Jolyn Tay The Malayan Medical Journal is a quarterly scientific record that seeks to journal and archive observations about the occurrence of diseases in Singapore and Malaysia and…
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By Nur Diyana NUS Libraries has recently acquired the works of Syed Sheikh Ahmad Al-Hadi, published in the early twentieth century. This collection of primary source materials contains 7…
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