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• Welcome
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• Hon Sui Sen Memorial Library
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Hon Sui Sen Memorial Library
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Brief History

• The library was built in memory of the late Mr
  Hon Sui Sen, former Minister for Finance of
  Singapore (1970-1983) and Member of Parliament
  for the Havelock Constituency (1970-1983)
• Hon Sui Sen Memorial Library started its
  operations on 15th June 1987 and was officially
  declared open by on 15 January 1988

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Hon Sui Sen Room

• Hon Sui Sen Room houses memorabilia of Mr Hon
  contributed by his family and the Ministry of
  Finance.
• The desk and armchair in the Room were those used
  Mr Hon when he was at the Ministry of Finance. A
  copy of his Singapore Government Directory is
  kept at his desk.
• Some of the items in the cabinet include Mr Hon's
  Rubik Cube along with notes on how to solve it.

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Hon Sui Sen Memorial Library Collection... as at
June 2002
Total size of collection Printed
resources Monographs Journals Internet
resources CD-ROM databases Media programmes

• No of Titles
• 66,800
• 3,450
• (16,531)
• (126)
• 1,626

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Library Services

• Circulation
• Reference
• Document Delivery
• Interlibrary Loan
• Off-Campus Book Delivery / Collection Services

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Membership June 2001

• Staff 7,500
• Students 30,500
• External 12,200

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Circulation

• Tag books with radio frequency identification
  (RFID) labels since 2000
• SelfCheck machines used in all libraries since
  July 2001
• SelfReturn piloted in Central Library in 2002

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Reference Service

• Information Counter service
• Induction library tour for faculty
• Library instruction for students
• Advisory service for students
• Electronic enquiries service

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Document Delivery

• Faculty and graduate students
• Online
• Turnaround time - 3 working days (average)
• Print
• Turnaround time 2 weeks (average)
• Corporate members (deposit required)
• Articles requested on Standard Service are sent
  by postal mail
• Turnaround time within 7 working days
• Articles requested on Fast Service are sent by
  fax
• Turnaround time within 1 working day

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Interlibrary Loan

• Available for faculty and graduate students

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Library Websitehttp//www.lib.nus.edu.sg
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LINC (Library Integrated Catalogue)
Websitehttp//linc.nus.edu.sg
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LINC

• NUS Library online public access catalogue
• Table of contents
• Links to electronic resources
• Links to digitised videos
• Access via
• Web (http//linc.nus.edu.sg)
• PCs in the Library
• Plug-and-play points in the Library
• Wireless connection

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Login to myLINC

• Request for items without having to key in their
  username/password. 
• Save their favorite search statements for easy
  reference and searching in future sessions.
• Receive automatic email alerts when the library
  acquires items matching their saved searches.

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LINC Record in Chinese
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LINC Record in Japanese
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LINC Record with TOC
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Digital Libraryhttp//www.lib.nus.edu.sg/digital/
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Digital Library (Business, Economics Management)

• Databases (113)
• E-Journals (634)
• E-Books/Conferences (101)
• E-Forms for library services
• LION (Library Instruction ONline)

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Digital Library Databases

• 73 business related Web databases
• ABI/Inform
• EIU Country Data
• Factiva
• Global Market Information Database
• LEXIS.com
• SilverPlatter EconLit, PsycInfo, Sociofile
• Web of Science AHCI, SCI, SSCI
• China Journal Net ?????

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E-Journals

• Direct links to the full text journals on the Web
  through LINC or Digital Library
• More than 9,000 subscriptions
• Includes publishers like
• Elsevier ScienceDirect
• JSTOR
• Oxford University Press
• Springer-Verlag
• SwetsNavigator
• Wiley InterScience

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E-Books on the Web

• Direct links to the full text books on the Web
  through LINC or Digital Library
• More than 7,000 titles
• Includes publishers like
• Books24/7
• Springer
• netLibrary
• Singapore University Press

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E-Forms Some examples

• Faculty
• Request for Document Delivery
• Request for Interlibrary Loan
• Graduate Students
• Undergraduates
• Electronic Enquires Service
• Form for reporting of lost book
• Request to purchase new books for the Library
• External members
• Request for off campus Book Delivery

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Full Text CD-ROMs

• Singapore Trade Connection
• SMC OnDisc
• Foreign Companies in Emerging Markets
• Singapore business the authority on business
  information
• Institute of Certified Public Accountants of
  Singapore members handbook
• Encyclopedia Britannica 2002

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CD-ROMs on NUSNET

• Titles which NUS staff students can access on
  the campus network include
• Gartner CDROM
• Singapore Malaysian Legal Research Library
• Current Legal Information

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NUS Exam Papers

• Search and view full text of NUS exam papers
• For NUS staff students
• Records/images found can be downloaded or printed

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Lat Pau

• Important historical source for research into
  pre-war Singapore and Chinese overseas during
  that period.
• Earliest Chinese newspaper published in
  Singapore.
• Started by Mr See Ewe Lay in Dec 1881 and ceased
  in Mar 1932. (52 years)
• NUS Library has digitised the print newspaper
  from 1887-1932.
• http//www.lib.nus.edu.sg/lebao/

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Some Library Publications

• Bibliographies
• LINUS Newsletter of the NUS Libraries
• SMC OnDisc
• A Sense of History
• Statistics on Singapore

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SMC Ondisc

• Joint project with Informit in Australia
• Provides easy access to over 100,000
  bibliographic citations on materials pertaining
  to Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei and ASEAN
• Consists of three databases
• Singapore/Malaysia Collection
• NUS Theses Collection (from 1947)
• PERIND
• Accessible on the Internet by subscription from
  Informit in Australia

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A Sense of History

• Comprehensive bibliography on the history of
  Singapore
• English Web edition
• http//www.lib.nus.edu.sg/bib/sh/
• Chinese Web edition
• http//www.lib.nus.edu.sg/chz/csh/index.htm

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Statistics on Singapore

• Annotated bibliography of statistical sources on
  Singapore
• Web edition
• http//www.lib.nus.edu.sg/bib/ss/

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Video-On-Demand

• Watch digitised videos from your desktop through
• LINC (Library Integrated Catalogue)
• Digital Library - Video-on-Demand
• Integrated Virtual Learning Environment (IVLE)
  within the NUS Intranet

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View Video in LINC
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Library Instruction ONline (LION)

• Instructions on how to use the resources
  available in the Library and to locate the
  materials you need.
• How to find information in NUS Library
• How to search LINC catalogue
• How to search databases for articles
• How to locate items in six libraries
• Online tutorials

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Press Clippings

• Collection of newspaper articles from The
  Straits Times and Business Times
• Focus on Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei and ASEAN
• From 1960s
• Articles filed by broad headings, e.g.
• Economic conditions
• Information technology
• Personalities
• Medical health services
• Social life customs

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Library Websitehttp//www.lib.nus.edu.sg

• Digital Library
• Electronic journals
• LINC
• Information on the Library
• LINUS (NUS Library Newsletter)
• Bibliographies

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