Rambling Librarian:: Incidental Thoughts of a Singapore Liblogarian | |
| This post's title came from words uttered by nine year-old Tyler from California, USA.Reading this New York Times article, I wonder how many Singaporean kids are like Tyler. Perhaps we'll be... | |
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| Spotted these recent posts in LisNews.org:Librarians in the Scottish community of Edinburgh are being re-styled from "librarians" to "audience development officers".A link to an opinion piece,... | |
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| This was announced today. From the NLB press release page (emphasis are mine):Changes to Library PolicyFrom 1 April 2009, the following policy changes will be implemented:Disruption of Borrowing... | |
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| First song for the year, from my band buddy and I.It's pretty obvious both of us are Joe Satriani fans.Enjoy! First conceived by Adrian Loo. Arrangement by Ivan Chew.Adrian Loo: Drums and... | |
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| 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... | |
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| [From part 1]I'm making use of the free internet access in the Pula City Library to post this (oops, I thought it was free but there's a charge for users; they were kind enough to let the librarian... | |
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| [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... | |
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| [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... | |
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| [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... | |
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| [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... | |
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