Welcome, welcome, all ye newbies! Hon Sui Sen Memorial Library (HSSML), your very own business library, welcomes our new students to a brand new year of lots of learning and discovering.…
Continue readingOne lovely afternoon, out in the quiet corridors of academia, a burst of laughter and noisy chatter filled the still, humid air. Students in baggy T-shirts and shorts were running around playing all…
Continue readingOne fine day, a very supportive and extremely focused Vice Dean wanted to know whether his first years used academic databases for a particular assignment. You see, the students were supposed to write on…
Continue readingOn Monday, 25 April, a newspaper ran an article about detecting baloney online. Actually, what caught TNL’s attention was the first word/verb of the headline – “Teach people to detect…
Continue readingWhen a particular business library went through the process of renovation, the staff of the library faced a process of change too. The most obvious was managing the renovation work…
Continue readingWhat? You think the old girl up and left? Not so. You can’t quite get rid of TNL. Not so soon. She would gladly tell you that she was pleasantly…
Continue readingRecently, TNL read in Straits Times that a certain Japanese MBA student was found killed at a back alley at Bukit Pasoh. Her heart skipped a beat when she read…
Continue readingThanks, Rain, for commenting on TNL’s last post on questions. Here is one more. TNL had a perculiar week of students at different times asking questions that allude to one…
Continue readingLibrarians get a lot of questions. Most of the time, students want answers. Sometimes, they just want to make a point. So when TNL was asked recently, what is the easiest…
Continue readingTNL loves kiddy books. Especially when the story and illustrations are so good that they come together to give you such a pleasant, happy experience that either makes you chuckle…
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