Singapore Libraries Bulletin Blog : Library Association of Singapore

The Li Ka Shing Library was privileged to have Catherine Lim launch the inaugural talk for FridayBuzz@theLibrary on 15 February 2008 from 1pm to 2:30pm.

FridayBuzz@theLibrary is a series of talks jointly organized by the Li Ka Shing Library and the Office of Student Life with the support of individual faculty in the School of Social Sciences at the Singapore Management University. The aim of the talks is to highlight cultural, literary and social issues in Singapore for our students and the rest of the SMU community and highlight the library’s role as a social and cultural centre.

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Millennium, Encore, and eProducts to Drive New Campus Initiative

Singapore Management University (SMU) in the nation and city of Singapore has selected an entire suite of Millennium ILS and the Encore discovery services platform products from Innovative Interfaces to create an integrated Digital Library (DL) for the University’s Li Ka Shing Library.The DL will combine traditional Integrated Library Management System (ILS) applications with an institutional repository driven by Innovative’s Symposia product and new web services tools on campus. The Li Ka Shing Library has also purchased eProducts from Innovative: Research Pro federated search, Web Bridge LR link resolver, and Pathfinder Pro in-context resource suggestions. It will publish RSS feeds of new library materials and patron-specific messages about requests through Innovative’s Feed Builder and My Record Feeds respectively, an integrated feature of Millennium.

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What’s this latest hot spot in the Library that seems to attract students like bees to honey? It’s the Board Games Zone in the Lien Ying Chow Lifestyle Library. 

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Co-organised by the National Library of Singapore, IFLA Newspapers Section and IFLA Core Activity on Preservation and Conservation.

Interested to uncover the impact of digital technology upon contemporary and historic newspapers? Register for the IFLA International Newspaper Conference and learn how distinguished international & regional speakers tackle these challenges. Keep reading →

The art librarians of the Lee Kong Chian Reference Library put together an exhibition in November, called The Nanyang Pioneer Artists: Paintings and Heritage Materials in the National Library’s Collection. This was part of the National Library’s Literary Heritage Showcase. The goal was to encourage more people to come forth and donate their books and ephemera, and help preserve Singapore’s published heritage on the arts. Keep reading →

On 12 Sept 2007, 20 SP Library staff spent a meaningful afternoon at the MINDS Clementi Training & Development Centre (TDC). This community service visit was arranged as part of our annual staff welfare activities. Keep reading →

‘Get inspired @ your library’ was revealed as the theme to this year’s inaugural Singapore Library Week (SLW) at the press conference on 24 October. Jointly organised by the National Library Board (NLB) and Library Association of Singapore (LAS), more than 40 academic, public and special libraries across the nation planned a series of activities under the SLW umbrella from 1 to 9 November. Keep reading →

Has your library conducted any activities during the Singapore Library Week on 1st to 9th November? If so, the bulletin would like to know about it, along with any other events that your library may have conducted recently.

Please send your article with accompanying pictures as separate JPEG files to las.singaporelibrariesbulletin@gmail.com by 1 Dec 2007.

We look forward to your contributions.

Kho Su Yian
SLB Editor

Abstract Submissions for IFLA International Newspaper Conference 2008
- Old Issues, New Issues: Impact of Digital Technology upon Contemporary and Historic Newspapers

Want to share collective knowledge about how libraries can tackle the dual challenges of preserving printed newspapers and responding to the changes that new technologies bring on to managing both printed and online (born digital) newspapers?

We invite you to register and submit a short proposal for a presentation on the IFLA International Newspaper Conference’s theme - Old Issues, New Issues: Impact of Digital Technology upon Contemporary and Historic Newspapers.  The Conference will focus on the rapid advancements of digital technologies affecting the various aspects relating to newspapers in libraries and archives, and will be held at the National Library of Singapore from 1 to 3 April 2008.

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A paper by Ms Maitrayee Ghosh, Assistant Librarian of P.K. Kelkar Library, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India.

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