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Palin Will NOT Attend Reagan Library Event

Sorry, guys, I guess my Palin obsession is really in high gear today. It must be the gloomy, rainy weather here bringing out the worst in me...lol! Just kidding, but I recall that as soon as Palin...

Gaming preview session at Jurong Regional Library, Saturday 24 Oct, 2009.

About 20 people responded to the public library's call for participants last Saturday. We had a very good mix of the young to older people. With their help, my colleagues now know what will really...

Open call for participants for a Gaming preview session at Jurong Regional Library, Saturday 24 Oct.

This is published with my employer's permission.The Public Libraries (Singapore) would like to invite participants to a Gaming preview session on SAT October 24, 2009, 10am to 1pm at Jurong Regional...

READ! Singapore - READING MARATHON 2009

This was in-progress when I passed by the National Library event plaza this evening:The NLB was getting ready for this...

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...

Creative Crew Singapore - March Meeting @ Central Public Library

It was a chance online discussion that led to me being introduced to the folks behind Creative Crew Singapore.They (actually one guy in their core team, Linus) asked about the use of library premises...

Author Anita Desai at the National Library

Just saw this at High Browse Online:Meet novelist, short-story writer and children’s author Anita Desai in person! Don’t miss this once in a lifetime opportunity to speak to one of the world’s most...

Connecting the World, One Library at a Time: Jurong Regional Library and The September Project 2008

Here's something the teen volunteers cooked up and implemented at the Jurong Regional Library, as part of the library's participation in The September Project this year.An interactive games board...

Closure of library@orchard: D-Day (Part 3)

[From Part 2]Three videos that were screened at the library@orchard Moving On Party, 30 Nov 2007.1) Angela Jean's tribute to library@orchard - "You Are The One":Cast: Alice, Edmund, Ridzuan,...

Closure of library@orchard: D-Day (Part 4)

[From Part 3]This post is dedicated to the 13 volunteers who signed up as the library@orchard citizen reporters (in no particular order):Alice Cheong (she brilliantly archived the library@orchard...

Closure of library@orchard: D-Day (Part 1)

We don't like to say that it's a closure of a library. We'd prefer to say that the library has "moved on". But reading the many blog posts -- from the citizen reporters, the comments left at the...