03 Dec 2013
IFLA Trend Report

Read Insights from the IFLA Trend Report The Insights Document pulls together and summarises all of the information contained on the Trend Report website for IFLA members. It identifies five high level trends and considers possible future “collision points” between trends affecting the role and identity of libraries.

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Library Associations Singapore
18 Nov 2013
A Sale with Heart – Lien Ying Chow Library Books & Magazines Charity Sale

There was excitement aplenty on 30 & 31 Oct in Ngee Ann Polytechnic (NP) – Lien Ying Chow Library was having our first ever Books & Magazines Charity Sale! Our objectives for mounting this event were threefold. We wanted firstly, to support the Green Movement by re-distributing used library materials back to the community and […]

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Library Associations Singapore
11 Nov 2013
MSc student visit to Lee Kong Chian Reference Library (LKCRL)

40 students undertaking the MSc in Information Studies at the School of Wee Kim Wee, Nanyang Technological University was brought on a visit to LKCRL by Professor Shaheen on 29 Oct 2013. Mr Patrick Pu, Chair of Membership Committee, Library Association of Singapore (LAS) also joined the session. The students arrived promptly at 6.30pm at […]

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Library Associations Singapore
06 Nov 2013
Community as Collection

Following video is a presentation done by R. David Lankes at the InfoHost 2013 User Group Meeting  held on 1st November at Pan Pacific Hotel, Singapore.   The theme for the meeting this year was “Libraries & Publishing – Evolve in New Directions”. R. David Lankes is an associate professor at Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies. [vimeo […]

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Library Associations Singapore
04 Nov 2013
Contents in the Cloud – Contextual Collections, Coloassal Collaboration, Curious Connections

This morning, I had the opportunity to hear Lucie Burgess (from the British Library) at the National Library Board (NLB) – she shared with the audience her topic “Contents in the Cloud – Contextual Collections, Coloassal Collaboration, Curious Connections.” We also had some visitors from the National Library of Indonesia joining us for the occasion […]

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Library Associations Singapore
21 Oct 2013
Demystifying Wikipedia at SMU

“I don’t use Wikipedia for research,” said no student ever. Recognizing the role of Wikipedia as the first stop for many students conducting research, the Singapore Management University’s Li Ka Shing Library hosted “Demystifying Wikipedia: Tips for Information Literacy” on 22nd August 2013. About 50 librarians, educators and researchers from local and overseas institutions participated […]

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