Oh, Sweet, Sweet Silence…
TNL lost her voice. It may have been somewhere between Sentosa and Upper Bukit Timah. Very likely between Sunday afternoon and evening. And no, it wasn’t typically careless of her. She doesn’t quite…
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The Riddle
The Sphinx gave us a riddle recently. Oh, pppleeasse…Give us a break, man/woman. And mind you, we did NOT google it. The riddle was part of our childhood when stories…
Continue readingHelping Out
TNL met up with a friend who left librarianship to become a monk. It had been more than a year since they last spoke due to him preparing himself for…
Continue readingRoom 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…
Continue readingSo What’s Up with Copying & Pasting?
We, academic librarians, we teach our students how to search for information for their assignments, projects and dissertations regularly. In the course of working with lecturers, some lecturers have asked…
Continue readingIt’s the Holidays?
The only reason you call December a holiday is because of Christmas and then, the fast approaching New Year. Well, all right, the students have gone off on their holidays.…
Continue readingThe Zoe Project
TNL met with a tutor friend along the corridors of the Business School recently and what she said gave TNL quite a nice lift of the spirits. It seems this…
Continue readingStatistics and Lots of It
TNL was minding her own busy business, preparing to give an overview of statistical databases to her PhDs, when she remembered a funny story she could not resist not telling. One…
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…
Continue readingSo Long and Thanks, Maggie!
TNL bids farewell to Maggie, our LINUS Blog editor who is off on a new adventure. What can TNL say except – Take me with you!! As far as TNL…
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