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The National Library traces its history back to 1823 with the establishment of the first national public library as suggested by Stamford Raffles, the founder of modern Singapore. It was renamed the Hullett Memorial Library in 1923, co-located with Singapore's first school, Raffles Institution, at a site now occupied by the Raffles City complex ...
The National Library Board (NLB) is a statutory board under the purview of the Ministry of Digital Development and Information of the government of Singapore. The board manages the public libraries throughout the country. [1] The national libraries of Singapore house books in all four official languages of Singapore: English, Chinese, Malay and ...
Ang Mo Kio Public Library (Simplified Chinese: 宏茂桥社区图书馆) is one of the 26 public libraries established by the National Library Board of Singapore. Located along Ang Mo Kio Avenue 6 within walking distance of Yio Chu Kang MRT station, it serves the residents of the surrounding Ang Mo Kio GRC. As a standalone two-storey building ...
Lee Wee Nam Library; Library Outpost; Medical Library; Wang Gungwu Library; National University of Singapore. Central Library; C J Koh Law Library; Hon Sui Sen Memorial Library; Medicine+Science Library; Music Library; Wan Boo Sow Chinese Library (Chinese: 雲茂潮中文图书馆) Yale-NUS College Library; Singapore Management University. Li ...
The National Library Board and Singapore Press Holdings signed an agreement in 2007 to make digitised articles of The Straits Times available for public access at NLB libraries. NewspaperSG was launched on 28 January 2010.
The first national library to establish in the Americas became the National Library of Colombia having been founded on 9 January 1777, as the Real Biblioteca by Manuel Antonio Flórez, the Viceroy of New Granada. [21] In the newly formed American republic, James Madison first proposed instituting a congressional library in 1783. [22]
It is currently the oldest library in Singapore after the original National Library at Stamford Road was torn down, the first of 26 under the National Library Board (NLB) to be preserved as announced on 25 July 2014 [1] and was gazetted for conservation under the Urban Redevelopment Authority's Master Plan 2014, as part of the medium-term ...
The library was officially opened on 31 January 2013 by then Acting Minister for Culture, Community and Youth and Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Communications and Information Mr Lawrence Wong. It is NLB's first library run by volunteers. [3] The library was designed by Multiply Architects LLP and the library was completed in 2012. [1]