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Singapore Literature in English: an Annotated Bibliography was originally published in book form in 2008, and featured distinctive, even unique features, such as historical “Notes”, abstracts of contents, and information about the availability of each title. The editor-compiler, NTU Professor Koh Tai Ann, collaborated with NTU Libraries to digitize the bibliography on NTU Libraries’ digital […]
This post was contributed by Mr Edward Lim, a business librarian at NTU Libraries. The role of the librarian has developed over the last few decades. Research has shifted from finding single articles on a bookshelf, to filtering through millions of records and data points. This same transition toward data-driven research is occurring in the
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In conjunction with the Librarian’s Information Literacy Conference (LILAC) 2016, Facet Publishing has released 6 free chapters from Facet books on information literacy, research support and the information behaviour. 1. Developing a Metaliteracy Framework to Promote Metacognitive Learning Taken from Thomas P Mackey and Trudi E Jacobson’s 2014 book Metaliteracy. In the book, the authors
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In a corner of Tiong Bahru unbeknownst to many, is a bookbinding workshop. Founded long before the estate saw a retro revival in recent years, the Sheltered Workshop is made up of a team of craftsmen with disabilities. For the past 30 years, the craftsmen have been repairing books for libraries such as the
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This post was originally a note written by Mr Choy Fatt Cheong, University Librarian at NTU Libraries to library staff. Today, I want to introduce you to Maria Popova, or rather her blog, “brainpickings” <https://www.brainpickings.org/>. She is not a librarian, but what she does is very librarianish. She is the perfect candidate if we are
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