Information Literacy, Librarianship and the Negotiation of Professional Expertise

Dr Olof Sundin, Associate Professor with the Swedish School of Library and Information Science presented his research on information literacy at the Toa Payoh Community Library on 26 July 2006. The talk was organized by the National Library Board and open to LAS members. The stage was set by his introduction where he stated that …

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In Memory of Olive Lee

Mrs Olive Lee (Wong Yet Choo) passed away on 18 June 2006 at the age of 68. I remember meeting Olive Lee in the first weeks on joining the National Library (NL) in 1977. She was the Head of the Cataloguing Division at the time. The first impression she gave me was that she was …

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In Memory of Hauw Soo Kiaw

I heard about the demise of Soo Kiaw just after the news of Olive Lee’s death came. Soo Kiaw would have been about 58 this year. She had worked at the National Library Board having spent time at Queenstown Branch Library and Cataloguing. She resigned and joined the Institute of Systems Science (ISS) to head …

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