(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…
(4 Feb 2022) Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) will name its library The Ngee Ann Kongsi Library and establish The Ngee Ann Kongsi Emergence Fund in recognition of this endowed gift – the biggest donation it has ever received to-date. The Ngee Ann Kongsi has formalised its intention to make a generous endowed gift…
(27 Jan 2022) Singapore’s public libraries have been adopting data analytics and AI to develop more immersive and personalised visitor experiences. They have also introduced robots and automation to simplify and shrink the workload of librarians. Ramachandran Narayanan, Director and Deputy Chief Information Officer, National Library Board (NLB), Singapore highlights the tech tools that are…
(7 Feb 2022) This update promises a slower, closer look at one of the NUS Libraries’ collections; and in the spirit of Chinese New Year, features the Wan Boo Sow Chinese Library, housed on the fifth and sixth floors. Find out more from the original article with photos here.
(13 Jan 2022) Three years, four months and one long pandemic later, the National University of Singapore (NUS) Libraries Central Library revamp is finally complete! The university’s flagship library began progressively closing its floors in June 2018 to facilitate construction works, and had just completed Phases 1 and 2 of its revamp in Q1 2020…
(6 Dec 2021) A group of engineering and architecture students will design and build a library made from cardboard and felt in the void deck of a block of flats in Bukit Panjang. The pilot project, a collaboration between the North West Community Development Council (CDC) and Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), aims…
(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…