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The Singapore Arts Festival is right around the corner again! This year, the National Arts Council and NLB Public Libraries are working together to bring you a series of Festival Chats, where you can learn more about the shows that will be featuring in Singapore Arts Festival 2010.   So join us for this series [...]

  The Public Libraries (Singapore) would like to invite participants (of all ages) to a Gaming preview session on SAT October 24, 2009, 10am to 1pm at Jurong Regional Library’s Verging All Teens space (Level 4). Lunch will be provided. The Public Libraries intends to run a series of gaming events for the public. But before [...]

Teen Read Week 2009 Teen Read Week 2009 will be celebrated Oct. 18-24! This year’s theme is Read Beyond Reality @ your library, which encourages teens to read something out of this world, just for the fun of it. About Teen Read Week Teen Read Week is an initiative of the Young Adult Library Services [...]

Check out this video done by the students of Teck Whye Secondary School. It was produced for the I Love My Library! campaign in 2008.   Posted by: Reena Kandoth Associate Librarian, Young People’s Services.

Check out this video from students of Yuhua Secondary School. It was produced for the “I Love My Library” campaign in 2008. Posted by: Reena Kandoth Associate Librarian, Young People’s Services

On Saturday, I had the pleasure of meeting Dino for the very first time when I joined him at the Shine Youth Mascot Parade (SYMP). For the uninitiated, Dino is the library ambassador for NLB’s ‘I Love My Library’ campaign! Held at Ngee Ann City Civic Plaza, the SHINE Youth Mascot Parade was the first [...]

From 1 April 2009, the following policy changes will be implemented: Disruption of Borrowing Privileges Members with unpaid library fines and fees will have their borrowing privileges disrupted. They can immediately start to borrow again once they pay up the outstanding amount. With this policy, members can no longer accumulate unpaid library fines and fees. [...]

iBlog2.0 National Interschool Chinese Weblog Competition has finally ended. I’ve posted some participants’ blog posts (translated by Innova JC students) in my earlier posts and have read some contestants’ blogs during my free time. Truly, I was captivated by the richness of texts used in each post, written by these young talented writers. Don’t believe me? [...]

It was a reading week for Orchid Park Secondary School.  The Public Library brought about hundreds of books on Thriller, Mystery and Adventure for the students. The library has captured all the excitements in these beautiful pictures  Can’t decide which book to borrow?!…hhmm Everyone is busy with the browsing & selection, No one bothers to look at the [...]

(Ed’s notes: We had a ‘stomach-cramping laughter-inducing’ session on fantasy last Saturday. Have a look at what Beverly has to say about the session. Magic and dragons included.) Posted by Beverly, teen photojournalist Held by teens on the third Saturday of every month, the pseudo book club engages young adults to share their personal views [...]