(21 Nov 2023) The National Library Board (NLB) is poised to revolutionize the public’s interaction with literature by launching multiple artificial intelligence (AI) services, including a chatbot, an AI image generation service, and a real-time visualization system. Read more here.
(13 Aug 2023) Designing a library where everyone feels welcome requires attention to the tiniest details, including the space between entry gantries and the brightness of its lights. Find out more about how NLB designs its space here.
(6 Jun 2023) In this issue of IFLA Asia and Oceania Regional Quarterly News: IFLA Elections 2023 Results Role of Asia-Oceania Government Libraries in VNR Preparation Retrospective of AI Satellite Conference in Singapore Five-Storey Punggol Regional Library Official Opens Today Mapping Collection of Southeast Asian Maritime World Children Read in Seasons (CRIS) 11th International Library…
(12 Jun 2023) The National Library Board’s (NLB) new Borrow-n-Deliver initiative – a one-year pilot that kicked off on Monday – allows patrons to select up to four items on NLB’s e-catalogue and have them delivered to their home for a fee of $8 (before GST) each time. These items include books, magazines and audio-visual…
(2 May 2023) The only public library dedicated to the performing arts, library@esplanade, is set to close its doors on 30 June. The National Library Board (NLB) announced in a statement on Tuesday (2nd May) that the library’s collections and programs will be moved to the National Library Building in Bras Basah. NLB said…
(21 Mar 2023) In this issue of IFLA Asia and Oceania Regional Quarterly News: NLB’s Historical Asian Children’s Literature Collection Recognised By UNESCO As Documentary Heritage Of Influence Director of Capital Library of China: an introduction IFLA Asia-Oceania Regional Division Committee in-person business meeting in Bangkok Pacific Virtual Museum Project: digitalpasifik.org IFLA-ILA South Asian…
(15 Feb 2023) The National Library of Singapore is excited to announce the release of 10 open datasets comprising metadata of our digital collection. Explore metadata of over 42,000 digitized books, magazines, newspapers, web archives, images, sound and video recordings and more via the National Library Online webpage. Visualize and analyze these datasets and uncover…
(10 Oct 2022) The NLB’s 2021 National Reading Habits Study showed that 95 per cent of adults last year consumed reading materials such as the news, online articles and books in their spare time more than once a week – up from 88 per cent in 2018. Teenagers, too, seemed to be reading more for…
(23 Aug 2022) Academic libraries in Singapore support Open Access and Open Science trends in the world. Some of the trends can be seen in the ACRL Scholarly Communication Toolkit. Yeo Pin Pin, Head of Research Services of Singapore Management University Libraries shares how universities in Singapore are supporting OA. Read the full article here.
(26 Apr 2022) The Chou Sing Chu Foundation (CSCF) School Library Sponsorship Programme recently added 20 primary schools to its 2022 cycle, bringing the total number of primary schools benefiting from the program to 70. CSCF is a non-profit organization that promotes Chinese culture, education and language. The program, launched in 2018, aims to…