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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Alumni Leaders’ Forum Visit to Central Library
On Saturday, 7 April 2018, NUS Libraries hosted more than 50 participants of the Alumni Leaders’ Forum at the Central Library. They were introduced to emerging technologies at the Mixed…
Continue readingCollaboration Space @ Central Library!
Have you visited Central Library since the start of this semester? If you had, you must have noticed something going on at the old quiet reading room on level 4.…
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 readingHashtags, Selfies, and Emoticons
Education has always been position as a cognitive enterprise, focusing on intellectual development and knowledge-production. This is especially so in the context of Singapore, where education is positioned as being…
Continue readingArtsBuzz: Picturing Heritage in Japan
Have you seen the current exhibition of beautiful photographs in the ArtsBuzz? If you’re wondering what it is about, below are some musings from 2 of the photographers themselves on…
Continue readingChinese New Year Events @ The Libraries
Chinese New Year (CNY) is around the corner. NUS Libraries wish you a prosperous Year of Snake! For the months of January and February 2013, we will be organising four celebration…
Continue readingWifi @ CL
Are you having intermittent issues accessing the wifi in Central Library? Computer Centre is in the midst of upgrading the wifi by installing more access points and the connectivity may…
Continue readingLibrarians, Aliens & Things That Go Bump at Night
Last Friday was an exciting time for us at Central Library. We cracked a 30 year-old cold case, rescued a librarian lost in a fifth dimensional alien vortex and introduced ourselves…
Continue readingA Tortoise at Central Library
Or rather a “tor-toy-ise” as my bunch of Sec 4s said trying in vain to distract me from giving them a comprehension exercise. These kids! But I digress….Yes, folks, a…
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