Room to Read
When you put a pic of a cool-looking dude distributing books to kids and match it with a headline that has “libraries” in it, you can be sure as getting…
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Open House & the Importance of Libraries
The annual NUS Open House 2010 returned on the weekend of 13 & 14 March. It aimed to provide an opportunity for prospective NUS students to visit the campus and…
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It seems it is time to come out of hiding… Well, TNL wasn’t really hiding per se… And no, you are not going to be reading a bunch of excuses…
Continue readingExcuse Me, Do you Stamp Books?
I was helping out at a career fair recently and my instructions were clear – to tell visitors what librarians do and how they too, can join this challenging and…
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It’s been a while since I last posted, eh? I’m still here. Yes, it’s the usual excuse – I have been busy. And it is an excuse. Even at the…
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Something disconcerting happened to me the other day. After all these years of experience in teaching students search skills, I found myself red in the face when two databases misbehaved while I…
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