CONSAL XIV Hanoi Reflections Part II: The Social Life of Documents

The 14th CONSAL conference in Hanoi was a large gathering of librarians from Southeast Asia, trainers, educators and other information professionals who are involved in the ongoing library science education. It is a tremendous achievement on the part of the organisers and our host, the National Library of Vietnam, to have made this conference so […]

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Progress Report of Special Libraries Section (May-Jul 09)

  1.  Inaugural Business Librarians Tea Session @ Imagination Room, National Library Over 30 business librarians held an informal meeting on 23 Jun 09, hosted by NLB.  The group comprises business librarians from NLB, NUS, NTU, SMU, SIM, EDB, IE Singapore, IRAS, MAS, MTI, Bain & Co., etc.  SLS was represented by Susan Song-Lim, Manimekalai Thirumalai,

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Impressions of Southeast Asian Libraries from papers presented at CONSAL XIV, April 20-23, 2009.

1. Vietnam – the Host Country The Vietnamese Library Association (VLA) is very young, having only been established in 2006. Interesting to note is that association was founded at a conference that was also held in Hanoi (Pham, 2007). The VLA members are working hard but finding that one of the problems they face is

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