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29 Dec 2023

‘A Day in the Life’ Programme (July 2023 Run) – NTU Library Presenters’ Reflections

In the fourth and final post on this cycle of ‘A Day in the Life’ Programme, the presenters from NTU Library share their reflections. Mr Tan Chiang Wee – Institutional Repositories and Open Access Policy I am glad that we used the lesson plan method to plan our presentations for the programme. It helped me […]

05 Apr 2023

Ignite Integrity with a Bingo Challenge: A Collaboration between SMU Libraries and the Student Council of Discipline (SCD)

Ignite Integrity is a collaboration between SMU Libraries and the Student Council of Discipline SCD.

01 Mar 2023

Cosy corner to mull over bioethics at the National Library

Launched in October 2022, the Bioethics Corner is part of a collaboration between the National Library Board (NLB) and the Bioethics Advisory Committee (BAC), supported by the Ministry of Health (MOH), with an aim to promote greater awareness and understanding of bioethics in Singapore. Bioethics The BAC defines bioethics as the study of ethical, social […]

04 Jan 2023

“Be S.U.R.E., Stay Connected” with National Library Board

What does it take to counter the multitude of challenges in this digital age – from information overload to online safety? Nadia Ramli shares with us on the National Library Board Singapore (NLB)’s month-long programme to nurture Informed Citizenry, in conjunction with the UNESCO Global Media & Information Week 2022 in October, and its Libraries […]

27 Apr 2022

NTU Research Data Repository is Certified as Trusted Data Repository

Nanyang Technological University (NTU)’s research data repository, DR-NTU (Data), was launched by NTU Library in November 2017, with a mission to curate, store, preserve, make available and enable the download of digital data generated by the NTU research community in various disciplines. The requirement to deposit and share final research data was stipulated in NTU […]

07 Feb 2022

NUS Chinese Library: A Closer Look

s. 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.

13 Jan 2022

NUS Libraries Revamp: Done!

"We’re basically transforming the library to be ever-ready." Three years, four months and one long pandemic later, the NUS Libraries Central Library revamp is finally complete!

30 Dec 2021

Pandemic IL series: A Picture Says a Thousand Words; But Words Don’t Come Easy

This is a celebratory dedication through words and sentences, to our library and information colleagues, especially instruction librarians, who may have during the ongoing pandemic, experienced P.A.I.N. and P.R.I.D.E. in various ways. Pandemonium We all coped differently with the constantly changing directives and protocols from governments, agencies and institutions but most librarians continued to ‘keep […]

23 Dec 2021

Pandemic IL Series: Let’s Go Digital – Highlights from the SURE programmes 2021

For the first time this year, the National Library Board’s Prove It! Contest went fully digital. An annual school event since 2013, student teams from 27 secondary schools put their information literacy and creativity skills to the test. Videos were created by the students, sharing their experiences of applying the S.U.R.E. (Source, Understand, Research, Evaluate) […]

16 Dec 2021

Pandemic IL Series: Pain and Pride @ NTU

The move to virtual instructional workshops happened suddenly and quickly gave librarians little time to fully explore the features of these new mediums before implementation. This move especially highlighted the importance of teamwork and the need to set clear learning objectives for our workshops. Firstly, to understand the user experience better, we conducted many dry […]

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