By Lim Siu Chen   Today, the National University of Singapore (NUS) is celebrated as a leading research-intensive institution, one that has produced over 55,000 research publications in the last…

By Wong Kah Wei   The years of the 1960s to 1970s saw significant changes in the university. The University of Malaya operated as two divisions — one in Singapore…

By Lee Cheng Ean   For more than 61 years, NUS Libraries has painstakingly developed the Singapore/Malaysia Collection. The Singapore/Malaysia Collection or SMC as it is known, is the crown…

By Wong Suei Nee, Elizabeth J. Teh, & Wei Ping Sze   In the lead up to the Master of Science (Speech & Language Pathology) programme’s 20th anniversary in 2026,…

By Shawn Wongosari    “Always historicize!” – This slogan, which the late Fredric Jameson had mentioned in his preface to The Political Unconscious, has been my approach to reading any…

By Dr Sim Chuin Peng   Singapore has taken pains to preserve and document its diverse ethnic and religious heritage, balancing the need to modernise rapidly with the desire to…

By Gladys Toh   The Chinese character “静” (jìng) is often associated with ‘silence’, particularly within the quiet environment of a library. Many seek refuge in libraries, drawn by the…