Rambling Librarian:: Incidental Thoughts of a Singapore Liblogarian

PBL Symposium (Part 2): "What do we know about PBL? Current & future prospects"

[From Part 1]10 Jun 09 - Keynote speaker A/P Cindy Hmelo-Silver from Rutgers University: What do we know about Problem-based Learning (PBL)? Current & future prospectsQuick notes (italics are...

PBL Symposium (Part 3): "‘Learning about Learning’ – a Conundrum and a Possible Resolution"

[From Part 2]Day-2, 11 Jun 09.Prof Ronald Barnett, Institute of Education, University of London, UK: ‘Learning about Learning’ – a Conundrum and a Possible Resolution."It's not clear what Learning is...

PBL Symposium, Republic Polytechnic (Day 1)

I'd like to think that the future of librarianship isn't for librarians to attend only library-related conferences, but to step outside of our industry into other related ones.Which is why I signed...

Google Wave: possibilities for librarians

Thanks to Ben for alerting me to Google Wave - wave.google.com.It led me to the Google Wave developer preview presentation at the Day 2 Keynote of Google I/O (it's 1 hr 20mins long).LINK"What might...

READ! Singapore 2009

It's back!The annual reading initiative was launched by the NLB on Friday morning, 22 May 09, at the Conrad Hotel (the hotel is one of the main sponsors):From the NLB press release, 22 May 09Exciting...

Aardvark (or "Is Social Search the future for the library information/ reference service?")

Fellow colleague and liblogarian, Aaron Tan, blogged about this new social search service called Aardvark (vark.com).A few weeks ago, Aaron emailed me an invite. I took it up but only after he...

Aardvark (or "Participatory Librarianship: The future of reference service?

Fellow colleague and liblogarian, Aaron Tan, blogged about this new social search service called Aardvark (vark.com).A few weeks ago, Aaron emailed me an invite. I took it up (but only after he...

Perspectives

Great storytelling doesn't require fancy animation, video or soundtrack.Enuff said.[To view the video better, click here]The creator of the video was inspired by this...

Thoughts from the New Media Seminar 2009 (for the Singapore civil service)

Yesterday I attended the New Media Seminar organised by the Civil Service College. I was there to speak, as a representative of my employer the NLB, to share learning points from NLB's new media...

Personal rules for managing 'noise' during crisis situations

NOTICE: This commentary mentions the H1N1 outbreak but it is not an update of the crisis per se. You should treat this post as potential 'noise' by default.First, let me say there's a Charity Fun Day...