b’Cause — Preview III
With the book fund raising sale coming up soon, let’s take a look at some of the interesting titles you can purchase for reasonably low prices. Do remember that all…
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Book Review: Big data at Work : Dispelling the Myths, Uncovering the Opportunities
One of the things that struck me about this book is how accessible it is. I had expected it to be a dry treatise on data, data models, databases and…
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With the book fund raising sale coming up soon, let’s take a look at some of the interesting titles you can purchase for reasonably low prices. Do remember that all…
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Our annual fundraising sale is coming up soon and this year and every year this Librarian gets very excited to ‘help’ with the pricing and sorting of books that are…
Continue reading100 Years Ago….
Many students, especially students from the Business School, frequent the Hon Sui Sen Memorial Library; but how many know who the library was named after, and why the word “Memorial”…
Continue readingJapanese Graded Readers (Reberu betsu Nihongo tadoku raiburarī, レベル别日本語多読ライブラリー)
“Japanese Graded Readers” is a series of supplementary reading materials that is edited by the Japan Extensive Reading Association and is targeted specifically at Japanese language learners. This series is…
Continue readingBook Reviews on Science Pioneers
In this golden year of jubilee celebration of Singapore’s 50th birthday, it is fitting that we take a look at the past history and contributions of the various science pioneers,…
Continue readingA random selection of Singapore-focused books in the Hon Sui Sen Memorial Library collection
Koh W. 2015. The Top Toast: Ya Kun and the Singapore Breakfast Tradition (2nd ed.). Singapore: Cengage Learning. [call no. HD2346.12 Koh 2010] Written by one of our very own…
Continue readingThe Innovators and the Imitation Game
The innovators: how a group of hackers, geniuses, and geeks created the digital revolution In October 2011, Walter Isaacson published Steve Jobs, an authorized biography based on over forty interviews…
Continue readingHighlights from NUS Libraries’ collection – The Fabric of the Human Body
One of the prized possessions of the NUS Medical library is the, The Fabric of the Human Body, an annotated translation the 16th century book, De humani corporis fabrica by…
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