A Suitable Color
The library is a boring place and librarians look nerdy, right? Not so! We decided to shatter these myths by spicing up the Hon Sui Sen Memorial Library (HSSML) with an unconventional colour. Do…
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Bizad Academic Fair and Roadshow (What Great Fun!)
The shenanigans that librarians get up to. Tsk, tsk, tsk… TNL was at the Bizad Academic Fair and Roadshow last Mon and my, oh, my… check these pics out. Here you…
Continue readingOnce a Sssher, Always a Sssher…
One lovely afternoon, out in the quiet corridors of academia, a burst of laughter and noisy chatter filled the still, humid air. Students in baggy T-shirts and shorts were running around playing all…
Continue readingLegal Humour
I was surfing around for legal humour and came across these brilliant cartoons in Stu’s Views. Law librarians are indispensable. I rest my case! (Permission has…
Continue readingWhat You Put In Your Bibliography
One fine day, a very supportive and extremely focused Vice Dean wanted to know whether his first years used academic databases for a particular assignment. You see, the students were supposed to write on…
Continue readingBaloney Online
On Monday, 25 April, a newspaper ran an article about detecting baloney online. Actually, what caught TNL’s attention was the first word/verb of the headline – “Teach people to detect…
Continue readingChanges
When a particular business library went through the process of renovation, the staff of the library faced a process of change too. The most obvious was managing the renovation work…
Continue readingWhat a Hiatus!
What? You think the old girl up and left? Not so. You can’t quite get rid of TNL. Not so soon. She would gladly tell you that she was pleasantly…
Continue readingPeople We Remember
Recently, TNL read in Straits Times that a certain Japanese MBA student was found killed at a back alley at Bukit Pasoh. Her heart skipped a beat when she read…
Continue readingAn Unusual Coincidence
Life as a librarian is not always a bed of roses. If you see librarians and other library staff at work, you’ll realize that a lot of us are often…
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