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Hello hello hello! Sep’s Pseudo Book Club will be happening on 20Sep, 3-430pm at V.A.T, Jurong Regional Library. Take a break from mugging and join us We’ll be doing fantasy *cue multi-coloured unicorns and a dash of magic* so if you cant put down your harry potter and terry pratchett, this is for you! And [...]

  (Ed’s note: Remember our pop quiz? Yup! The September Project 2008 is done! What is this September Project? Well basically it’s a grassroots effort to encourage events about freedom and democracy in all libraries in all countries during the month of September. It started in 2004 to break the silence following September 11, and [...]

As you enjoy the last holidays before the dreaded end of year exams, let’s take some time to look at what the V.A.T regulars had to say to the most important people in their school. Who else but their TEACHERS! Happy Teachers’ Day!  And the most creative award goes to the people from YHSS! Look [...]

Questions 1. What does the acronym POSB stand for? 2. In which year were colour television broadcasts introduced in Singapore? 3. What drug was freely used, and even manufactured in Singapore from 1819 to the late 1940s? 4. What does September, Jurong Regional Library and nation-building have in common? How many did you get correct? [...]

Contribute to Teen Expressions today and if your work gets published on the Y.O Blog, you win a movie voucher. It’s really that simple! We have 12 to give away so do get your creative juices flowing and write in! Just to recap: What is Teen Expressions? Teen Expressions is a display of teens’ book recommendations, [...]

  Clean & Green! Silly and happy (Ed.’s notes: The title explains all. Have a look at how our V.A.T regulars love Singapore.)                                 Korean well wishes? If you can help me translate this, buzz us! How did you spend [...]

It was a Saturday morning and we spotted Roy, our librarian, at Ngee Ann City.  Huh? He was neither with his family nor friends. He was with a group of young Friends of the Library! Setting up a library booth of Sports collection and Paralympics booklists, to support the Paralympics Roadshow which aimed to encourage our athletes [...]

Heyhoho! The Pseudo Book Club meets in August again This time we’re doing a National Day special with the following titles: Onewinged: An Anthology of Young Writing Publisher: Singapore : UniPress, c2001 Call No.: YSING English S828ONE The Gathering: A Collection of Short Stories and Poems Author: Hu, Michael Publisher: Singapore : Candid Creation Pub., [...]

(Ed’s note: Some students popped by to do up V.A.T as our way of saying Happy 43rd Birthday Singapore! It’s fun when you have such a huge space to do almost anything. This entry is from Weilin, one of the students who put in lots of work to make V.A.T a place fit for Singapore’s [...]

Contributed by: Lea Gysel, Switzerland Hello! I’m a guest from Switzerland. I work in Switzerland, more precisely in a high school library. I’m attached at the Jurong Regional Library for an internship for 6weeks to learn about great customer service and the what the people behind various library projects do. I like to discuss with [...]