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!
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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 …
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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) …
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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 …
Pandemic IL Series: Lots and Lots
When I mulled over what was painful or gainful from this episode of pandemic-Zoom-vs-face-to-face, I realized something particularly odd. It wasn’t painful when I had to ensure my new laptop was fully enabled and ready for online teaching. It was just a requirement that came with getting a new laptop. I mean, I got a …