Mooting to Win
By NUS Law Librarians Have you ever wondered where the term “moot” comes from? From moot courts! For lawyers-in training, moot trials is where they participate in a simulated academic…
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A Virtual Peek Inside Our Award-Winning BookBridge
By Wong Kah Wei Visitors to NUS’ Central Library will have noticed the BookBridge on level 2 – an impressive structure that dominates the façade of the Central Library’s…
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Medicine+Science Library Officially Opens (Finally!)
By Stephanie Ng & Patrick Pu Albert Einstein once said, ‘The only thing that you absolutely have to know is the location of the library’. I’d like to go…
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Open Access, Open Data: The Research & Publishing Community’s Reactions to the Outbreak of Novel Coronavirus
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has classified the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) as a “public health emergency of international concern” on 30 January 2020. Amid the chaos of information and misinformation,…
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Study on Perceptions of Singapore’s Built Heritage & Landmarks
We are pleased to launch an interactive web exhibit for the Study on Perceptions of Singapore’s Built Heritage and Landmarks. In collaboration with the IPS Social Lab team from the…
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“Common Life” – A Visual & Poetic Showcase
With crayons and stained paper, I wander around neighbourhoods in Singapore, doing art — observing, perceiving, looking for that “something”; seeing it accidentally, hopefully; having strong, often unspeakable feelings, about…
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Introducing libmaps.nus.edu.sg
NUS Libraries is pleased to present Historical Maps of Singapore, a website providing the viewing of 31 sets of maps scanned and georeferenced by the Department of Geography, with publication…
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Towards a Hub for Digital Scholarship in NUS and Beyond
You may have seen the recent announcement of the launch of the Digital Scholarship (DS) Lab. The DS Lab received a warm “housewarming” from the Alumni Leader’s Forum as well,…
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Step into a Mini Wonderland of Sustenance and Supplies
Have you visited the Central Library recently? Did you notice the brand new vending machines at Perk Point? These new machines are part of our endeavour to serve the NUS…
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A Brand New Space @ PH2
Did you know that the Peggy Hochstadt Room (PH2) in Central Library has undergone a face lift? Formerly a reading room housing reference materials such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, atlases and standards, it is now a cosy collaboration space equipped with whiteboards and power points.
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