Tag: NLB
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S.U.R.E. Or Not?
Last Thursday was S.U.R.E. Day, an event held at the NLB to highlight a campaign for information literacy. The key speaker, Dr Carl Schoonover (author of ‘Portraits of the Mind’), gave an enlightening talk about neuroscience, perception and evaluation. There was also sambal fishball, mee goreng, curry puffs catered. What mrbrown and myself were quite…
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The librarian tried his darndest
The Ask The Librarian service emailed me with his team’s findings, and found the most likely site of Tan Seng Poh’s mansion: You might find this useful. Excerpt from: Title: One hundred years’ history of the Chinese in Singapore / Song Ong Siang ; introduction by Edwin Lee. Author: Song, Ong Siang, Sir, 1871-1941. Publisher:…