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03 Apr 2016

LAS Visit to World Scientific Publishing

Date of visit: 26 February 2016 Illuminating – if one word can sum up our visit to the World Scientific Publishing. Situated at Toh Tuck Link, the publishing company has established itself as one of the leading scientific publishers in the world, and the largest international scientific publisher in the Asia-Pacific region. Warmly greeted by […]

27 Mar 2016

LAS Visit to Library Supply Centre, National Library Board

Date of visit: 12 January 2016 21 participants visited the National Library Board’s (NLB) Library Supply Centre (LSC). The first part of the visit involved sharing of topic areas by LSC, including RDM processes in managing the content value chain, tools and systems developed to improve the content value chain, improvements in global sourcing of […]

20 Mar 2016

Sharing: “Trends from Afar” and “The Institutional Research Rankings’ Landscape through the Eyes of a Library Professional”

25 participants gathered at Singapore Polytechnic Library on Tuesday, 24 Nov 2015, for a sharing session by 2 speakers, Rajen Munoo (Head, Learning Services & Research Librarian, Business, Singapore Management University Libraries) and Ruth A. Pagell (Adjunct Faculty, Library and Information Science Program, University of Hawaii at Manoa) Rajen shared key learning points and takeaways […]

04 Feb 2016

LAS visit to National Archives of Singapore

Date of visit: 8 October 2015 (Thursday) from 3:00 – 5:00pm Established in 1968, the National Archives of Singapore (NAS) is the official custodian of Singapore’s archives of national or historical significance; covering both government and private records. The NAS acquires, preserves and presents archival records in all formats including documents, photographs, maps, oral history interviews […]

29 Oct 2015

Virtual Reality for Libraries – An Exploratory Workshop

The first activity organised by the LAS Programmes and Social Committee in the new Council Year 2015 was a fun and insightful one. 28 participants attended the exploratory workshop on Virtual Reality (VR) conducted by a team of librarians from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Libraries on 30 September 2015, in spite of a hazy day […]

02 Jun 2015

LAS visit to Library Supply Centre (LSC), National Library Board

39 participants visited the National Library Board’s (NLB) Library Supply Centre (LSC) on Friday, 24 April 2015. This was one of the visits organized by the Programmes and Social Committee which attracted overwhelming responses such that the registration closed 10 minutes right after the announcement. The Committee is really grateful for the strong support from LAS […]

07 Jan 2015

Highlights of the IFLA 2014 Conference Experience in Limerick and Lyon

In mid-August 2014, I attended the IFLA 2014 Satellite Meeting on Information Literacy in Limerick, Ireland, and the IFLA World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) 2014 in Lyon, France. This trip was made possible due to the award of the LAS-WLIC Grant 2014. I am indeed thankful to LAS and honoured to be given the opportunity […]

11 Dec 2014

Visit to NIE Library and IFLA Sharing Session

This event held on 9 December 2014 comprised of two parts, where 42 attendees were first brought on a tour around the newly renovated National Institute of Education (NIE) Library, followed by an informative sharing session from three of our LAS members whom had been partially sponsored for their trip to IFLA 2014. This is […]

27 Nov 2014

An Enriching Visit to Taylor & Francis on a Halloween Day

As we make our way up the steps to the office of Taylor & Francis, one wonders what experience can be gleaned from a short visit to this anchor publication company. To our surprise, we were greeted by two ladies in black gowns offering tricks-or-treats in a Jack-o’-lantern basket, complete with sweets and centipedes (mock ones […]

04 Nov 2014

Lecture and night visit to Lee Kong Chian Reference Library (LKCRL) on 23rd October 2014

49 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 23 Oct 2014. 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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