Articles Published By NTU Librarians
Abdul Aziz, N. (2012). Discovering the Resource Mining Experience in your Library. Conference on GenNEXT Libraries 2012, (October 2011), 1–11. Retrieved from http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2158340
Abdul Aziz, N., Bando, K., & Wan Yahya, W. A. H. (2013). Harvesting Scholarly Communication Padi Seeds via Mendeley Institutional Edition for your Academic Libraries. Persatuan Pustakawan Malaysia (PPM) Annual General Meeting for 2012/2013, 1–24. Retrieved from SSRN 2263120
Abdul Aziz, N., Chia, Y. B., & Loh, H. (2010). Sowing the seeds: towards reaping a harvest using social web applications in Nanyang Technological University Library. IFLA World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) 2010, (August), 1–25. Retrieved from http://dr.ntu.edu.sg/handle/10220/6450
Abdul Aziz, N., Harun, A. H., Tan, C., & Choy, A. (2008). Innovative library web marketing practices in Singapore: a landscape of hype, expectation and reality. Library Association of Singapore Conference 2008., (May), 1–19. Retrieved from https://dr.ntu.edu.sg/handle/10220/6070
Abdul Aziz, N. , & Tan, M. (2012). Building a platform for knowledge engagement: Sowing seedlings in new media. 2012 6th IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies (DEST), (i), 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1109/DEST.2012.6227940
Anandasivam, K., Choy, F. C., & Fatt Cheong, C. (2008). The Electronic Library Designing a creative learning environment: NTU's new Art, Design and Media Library. New Library WorldTHE PLANNING AND DESIGN OF CHILDREN′S LIBRARIES Library Management. https://doi.org/10.1108/02640470810910675
Cheong, C. F. (2018). The Five Rules of Engagement for librarians: aux Ranganathan's laws of library science. In Library Management in Disruptive Times. https://doi.org/10.29085/9781783302369.004
Cheong, C. F., & Tuan, N. C. (2011). What Users Want and What Users Do in E-books: Findings of a study on use of e-books from NTU Library. Singapore Journal of Library & Information Management.
Cheong Choy, F. (2007). Libraries and librarians – what next? Library Management. https://doi.org/10.1108/01435120710727965
Cheong, F., Su, C., Goh, N., Choy, F. C., & Goh, S. N. (2016). Library Management A framework for planning academic library spaces A framework for planning academic library spaces. Library Management Library Management Iss Library Management. https://doi.org/10.1108/LM-01-2016-0001
Choy, F. C. (2011). From library stacks to library-in-a-pocket: Will users be around? Library Management. https://doi.org/10.1108/01435121111102584
Choy, F. C., & Goh, S. N. (2016). A framework for planning academic library spaces. Library Management. https://doi.org/10.1108/LM-01-2016-0001
Fatt Cheong, C. (2017). The Five Rules of Engagement for librarians. In Library Management in Disruptive Times.
Shaw, C., Mandel, C., Wilkinson, J., Kondo, H., Demirhan, A., Ovenden, R., ... Giordano, T. (2013). University libraries: 10 global portraits. The Guardian.
A library is a collection of materials, books or media that are accessible for use and not just for display purposes. A library provides physical or digital access materials, and may be a physical location or a virtual space, or both. A library's collection can include printed materials which can be borrowed, or for reference only and other physical resources in many formats, such as commercial releases of films, television programmes, other video recordings, radio, music and audio recordings on DVD, Blu-ray, CD and cassette as well as access to information, music or other content held on bibliographic databases.
The Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is a national public research university in Singapore. Founded in 1981, NTU is the second oldest autonomous university in the country. It is also considered as one of the most highly ranked universities in the world by various international metrics.
Interlibrary loan is a service that enables patrons of one library to borrow physical materials and receive electronic documents that are held by another library. The service expands library patrons' access to resources beyond their local library's holdings, serving as "an integral element of collection development" for libraries.
Nanyang University (Chinese: 南洋大学; pinyin: Nányáng Dàxué, also known as Nantah, was a university in Singapore between 1956 and 1980. During its existence, it was Singapore's only private university in the Chinese language. In 1980, Nanyang University was merged with the University of Singapore to form the National University of Singapore. It was only until 2005 that another private school in Singapore, SIM University, was established.
Wang Gungwu, is an Australian historian, sinologist, and writer specialising in the history of China and Southeast Asia. He has studied and written about the Chinese diaspora, but he has objected to the use of the word diaspora to describe the migration of Chinese from China because both it mistakenly implies that all overseas Chinese are the same and has been used to perpetuate fears of a "Chinese threat", under the control of the Chinese government. An expert on the Chinese tianxia concept, he was the first to suggest its application to the contemporary world as an American Tianxia.
Library collection development is the process of systematically building the collection of a particular library to meet the information needs of the library users in a timely and economical manner using information resources locally held as well as resources from other organizations.
The literature of Singapore comprises a collection of literary works by Singaporeans. It is written chiefly in the country's four official languages: English, Malay, Standard Mandarin and Tamil.
The following lists events that happened during 1991 in Singapore.
The Singapore Literature Prize is a biennial award in Singapore to recognise outstanding published works by Singaporean authors in any of the four official languages: Chinese, English, Malay and Tamil. The competition is organised by the National Book Development Council of Singapore (NBDCS) with the support of the National Arts Council and the National Library Board.
Standing Committee for Scientific and Technological Cooperation (COMSTECH) is one of four standing committees of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation dedicated to the promotion and cooperation of science and technology activities among the OIC member states.
Preservation metadata is item level information that describes the context and structure of a digital object. It provides background details pertaining to a digital object's provenance, authenticity, and environment. Preservation metadata, is a specific type of metadata that works to maintain a digital object's viability while ensuring continued access by providing contextual information, usage details, and rights.
A digital library, also called an online library, an internet library, a digital repository, a library without walls, or a digital collection is an online database of digital objects that can include text, still images, audio, video, digital documents, or other digital media formats or a library accessible through the internet. Objects can consist of digitized content like print or photographs, as well as originally produced digital content like word processor files or social media posts. In addition to storing content, digital libraries provide means for organizing, searching, and retrieving the content contained in the collection. Digital libraries can vary immensely in size and scope, and can be maintained by individuals or organizations. The digital content may be stored locally, or accessed remotely via computer networks. These information retrieval systems are able to exchange information with each other through interoperability and sustainability.
X-Sat is a microsatellite developed and built by the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in collaboration with Defence Science Organisation (DSO) Singapore. The satellite was launched by ISRO's PSLV-C16 on 20 April 2011 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre FLP in Sriharikota, India. The satellite was launched along with Indian ResourceSat-2 and Indo-Russian YouthSat.
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Library is housed in the Lee Shau Kee Library, located at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. It has over 1 million books, 728,426 printed volumes 754,146 in electronic format, as well as tens of thousands of e-journals, and streaming audio and video collections. A good part of its special collections, like its Antique Maps of China Collection has been digitized.
NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore is a national research centre affiliated with Nanyang Technological University (NTU).
Tan Sri Lim Ah Lek is Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) politician in Malaysia and was the Member of Parliament for Bentong constituency in Pahang and MCA deputy president. Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad appointed him as the Minister of Human Resources Malaysia.
The Ohio State University Libraries are the collective libraries of the Ohio State University and its satellite campuses. This system welcomes Ohio State faculty, students, visiting scholars and the general public to study and research. It includes ten libraries located on the Columbus campus, six libraries on the regional campus of the university and nine special collections. The Ohio State University Libraries offer educational resources and services to support readers to research, learn and teach. They can help researchers find and borrow physical and digital materials from articles, journals, databases, books, dissertations, theses, newspapers, streaming videos and images, etc. The Ohio State University libraries hold over six million volumes in traditional library formats and more in electronic information resources.
The visual art of Singapore, or Singaporean art, refers to all forms of visual art in or associated with Singapore throughout its history and towards the present-day. The history of Singaporean art includes the indigenous artistic traditions of the Malay Archipelago and the diverse visual practices of itinerant artists and migrants from China, the Indian subcontinent, and Europe.
John Norman Miksic is an American-born archaeologist.
