Rambling Librarian:: Incidental Thoughts of a Singapore Liblogarian

Speaking in Croatia (Part 3) - Pictures of the Istria Book Fair

[From Part 2]This was the opening ceremony, which was on Day-2 of my visit.The "12th Dreamlike Book Fair in Istria" [Sa(n)jam knjige u Istri], held at Pula (found an old 2007 press release, here).The...

Speaking in Croatia (Part 4) - Publishing and reading trends in Croatia

[From Part 3]My visit to the Pula Book Fair made me think of the Globalisation phenomenon, and not simply about "books and libraries".Sounds like one of the opening chapter of Thomas Friedman's "The...

Speaking in Croatia (Part 5) - Pictures of the Pula City Library

[From Part 4]Here's City Library of Pula, where the Librarian's Weekend session was held. Quite modern looking, since it was a fairly new building. One level down - Internet terminals, where members...

Speaking in Croatia (Part 6) - Rijeka City public library

[From Part 5]After a 2-hour bus ride through winding hills and a picturesque country side, I arrived from Pula to Rijeka city around noon. My Croatian colleague from IFLA, Verena T., received me at...

Twitter feedback about Bishan Public Library

I was updating this post to add this link, and reading that linked me to this story by mrbrown.And then I stumbled this.[Technically, it's "Bishan Public Library" and not "National Library at...

Drafting a "Web 2.0 + Young Adult services primer for librarians"

On a whim, I posted this status update at my Facebook account yesterday:In case you can't see the image, my status said: "Ivan is writing a Web 2.0 + Young Adult services primer for...

Part 2 - Drafting a "Web 2.0 + Young Adult services primer for librarians"

[From previous post]After thinking about it, I decided to start a wiki for the draft.It's at web20-libraryservices-ya.wikispaces.comI figured it would be OK for me to make the draft public, since a...

Part 3 - Drafting a "Web 2.0 + Young Adult services primer for librarians"

[From Part 2]Sent the final draft to Ivanka yesterday night. Just checked my email this evening and she came back with some corrections. I made the changes on my master document and emailed it...

"Enough"

On the last day of 2008, my friend (this guy) told me this story that he'd read from this book:At a party hosted by a successful hedge fund manager, (the late) author Kurt Vonnegut remarked to fellow...

"Singapore - Crossroads of the East 1938"

I enjoyed this video. A "tour of the British colony of Singapore in 1938" video footage in YouTube:The narrator sounds "uppity" and stereotypically stiff-upper-lip British. He pronounced "Malay" as...