(27 Oct 2021) The revamped Choa Chu Kang Public Library, which reopens to the public tomorrow (Oct 28), is one example of how libraries in the future will look like. The library, with the theme (Re)connect With Nature, is the first in Singapore to be built around the concept of sustainability. Visitors will be…
(20 Oct 2021) The National Library Board (NLB) today announced LAB25 (Libraries and Archives Blueprint 2025), a five-year journey in its next phase of transformation. Learning, discovery and, particularly, reading – long seen as the mainstays of NLB – have been transformed by the forces of social media and digitalisation, seismic societal shifts and the enduring…
(25 Aug 2021) An issue of a little-known English-language newspaper published here in the 1850s is one of more than 27,000 items of historical interest that have been donated to the National Library Board (NLB) in the last two years. The Bintang-Timor, a weekly publication from 1858 to 1859, had gone unrecorded by public institutions…
(3 May 2021) In 2013, through the generous support of William and Judith Bollinger, the British Library embarked upon a five-year project, in collaboration with the National Library Board of Singapore, to digitize materials in the British Library of interest to Singapore. The project initially focused on Malay manuscripts, early maps of Singapore, and archival…
(29 Apr 2021) A former manager from the National Library Board (NLB) was jailed for four years and four months on Thursday (April 29), after pleading guilty last year to taking S$581,730 in bribes from an ex-employee. Prosecutors said that the total sum of gratification that Ivan Koh Siong Wee took is “an amount of…
(18 Mar 2021) Digital library usage spiked amid the pandemic last year but closures during the circuit breaker meant overall loans fell from 40.5 million in 2019 to 29.2 million. The number of Singapore residents using the National Library Board’s (NLB) digital channels went up by 46.5 per cent from 2019, its year-in-review report noted…
(28 Feb 2021) Historical records bearing the imprint of Singapore’s early Hokkien pioneers such as Tan Tock Seng and Tan Lark Sye will soon be made accessible to the public following the donation of more than 4,300 original documents from the Singapore Hokkien Huay Kuan (SHHK) made to the National Library Board (NLB) on Sunday (Feb 28).…
(15 Oct 2020) Those visiting libraries to read, study and work can look forward to more services resuming from Tuesday (Oct 20) at the National Library Building, 25 public libraries and the Oldham Theatre in the National Archives of Singapore Building. The National Library Board (NLB) said in a statement on Thursday (Oct 15) that…
(2 Oct 2020) The National Library Board (NLB) is launching a subscription service that delivers to customers eight curated English children’s books a month. Up to 200 children from low-income families will get the subscription free, as part of a partnership with The Straits Times School Pocket Money Fund (STSPMF). The pilot service, called…
Ivan Koh Siong Wee took bribes from his ex-employee Koh told Low Pok Woen to explore providing digital content to NLB NLB procured almost S$6 million in digital resources from Low’s three firms (4 Aug 2020) A former manager from the National Library Board (NLB) pleaded guilty on Tuesday (Aug 4) to taking S$581,730 in…