National Library Board, Singapore

Good news for comics lovers! The Comics Library will be moving to a new space after its last day at Anchorpoint on 2 Oct 2024, Wednesday.

While the new space is being set up, you can check out our collection of comics at our other libraries including at Queenstown and Harbourfront.

Comics Library is at Anchorpoint #01-26/27 and is open from 10am – 10pm.

Stay tuned for updates on our new location soon!

🦸 Love manga and comics? If you haven’t checked out the Comics Library yet, come by before its last day at Anchorpoint on 2 October 2024! 🦹‍♂️

Find us at Anchorpoint #01-26/27, open daily from 10am – 10pm.

Stay tuned for more updates on other pop-up libraries to come!

At the Donors' Appreciation Night 2024 last evening, we honoured individuals and organisations who have entrusted their collections to the National Library Singapore and National Archives of Singapore.

Among the 4,000 items donated last year are video recordings of performances and productions by an award-winning Malay theatre company Teater Kami Limited, early manuscripts of radio plays written by a renowned Tamil playwright, the late Kavithaiviel Ka Perumal and sketches from well-known sculptor Han Sai Por.

Partners and Donors are co-authors of the Singapore Story, and their contributions help expand our collections and cultivate interest in Singapore’s heritage and identity. We invite everyone to join us in this endeavour to tell the Singapore Story together.

Want to learn more about and appreciate your Mother Tongue? Check out our vast collections of Chinese, Malay and Tamil resources to discover a wide variety of literary works, cultural artefacts and more.

Swipe to learn more about these resources and where to find them!

We were happy to welcome the United Nations Secretary-General His Excellency António Guterres, as well as President of the 78th Session of the United Nations General Assembly His Excellency Dennis Francis, to the Punggol Regional Library recently.

His Excellency António Guterres was joined by Senior Minister of State for Digital Development and Information Dr Janil Puthucheary, UN Executive Office of the Secretary-General Under-Secretary-General for Policy Mr Guy Ryder, UN Resident Coordinator in Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei Darussalam Ms Karima El Korri, Permanent Secretary (Law) and Second Permanent Secretary (Foreign Affairs) Mr Luke Goh, and National Library Board’s Chief Executive Officer Mr Ng Cher Pong.

We shared with them about the initiatives at our first LAB25 (Libraries and Archives Blueprint 2025) library to make reading, learning and discovery accessible for everyone. During the visits, both Excellencies were introduced to the Accessible Collection and various accessibility features, including Borrow-N-Go for wheelchair users. They also toured the creative spaces such as the Stories Come Alive Room for children, and MakeIT makerspace for adults and seniors.

Want to experience these exciting and accessible ways of discovery firsthand? Visit the Punggol Regional Library today.

📍Punggol Regional Library

1 Punggol Drive,
One Punggol, #01-12,
Singapore 828629

⏰ Mon - Sun: 10am - 9pm

As part of NLB’s ongoing efforts to rejuvenate our libraries and offer fresh services, spaces and experiences for patrons, library@orchard will be temporarily closed for a revamp from 28 October 2024.

The library will be reimagined and recreated to enable new ways for everyone to read, learn and discover. This includes new tech-enabled interactive and immersive spaces to aid learning and discovery, as well as a new children’s section. New elements will be introduced progressively, and the revamped library is expected to be fully open in the second half of 2026.

Ahead of library@orchard’s temporary closure, join us at “Design Is For Everyone: A decade of design, arts and community” to look back at the library’s journey in promoting art and design. You can share your memories of the library at the community wall, and also create your own memorabilia at the activity booths on 26 and 27 October.

📅 8 October to 27 October 2024

⏰ 11am to 9pm

📍library@orchard
277 Orchard Rd, #03-12 / #04-11 orchardgateway, Singapore 238858

For more details, check out the LearnX Arts Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/learnxarts.sg, and library@orchard’s Eventbrite page at https://www.eventbrite.sg/cc/libraryorchard-programmes-138109.

At NLB, we collaborate closely with our community partners, to empower our children to read, learn and discover, regardless of their background or ability.
Swipe to learn more about our programmes for children from less-privileged families.

Want to do your part? Reach out to us at https://www.nlb.gov.sg/main/partner-us.

Check out too our exciting line-up of free September school holiday programmes for all children, teenagers and families. Visit https://go.gov.sg/children-pl and https://go.gov.sg/teenstakeover-pl for more details.

With over 200 guests, the celebration of 20 years of kidsREAD was held at the National Library Building today! Hosted by Minister for Digital Development and Information, Mrs Josephine Teo, Guest-of-Honour President Tharman Shanmugaratnam and Ms Jane Ittogi joined in the celebration and even conducted a storytelling session for the book “The Noisiest Tree” by Singapore author, Evelyn Sue Wong, with two kidsREAD Young Alumni, Rudra and Yit Sim, for the children at the event.

Minister Josephine Teo lauded the success of kidsREAD over the past 20 years, and recognised the contribution and support of our dedicated volunteers, donors and partners. This programme complements the support given in schools, providing every child the opportunity to discover the joy of reading, for children aged 4 to 8 from less privileged families.

An expansion of kidsREAD with a last-mile initiative, kidsREAD@Home, aims to reach out to more children and families in rental flats, by bringing the programme directly into their homes or void decks.

Through this, NLB hopes to continue to spread the joy of reading and learning among children, and welcome more like-minded partners, donors and volunteers to join us in expanding opportunities to all.

In a fast-paced world filled with information from a multitude of sources, which can you trust?

There’s no better time than now to be S.U.R.E. Arm yourselves and your loved ones with information literacy skills to Source, Understand, Research and Evaluate the information out there.

Join us at the Be S.U.R.E. Together roadshow this weekend at Our Tampines Hub, and the upcoming roadshows in September and October. You can pick up information literacy tips from our community partners, and join our SURE Learning Community to connect, collaborate and be S.U.R.E together.

Check out too our S.U.R.E. resources and other programmes at go.gov.sg/nlb-sure-2024.

Be S.U.R.E. Together Roadshows

📅 24 Aug (Sat) & 25 Aug (Sun)
⏰ 11am to 8pm
📍 Our Tampines Hub, Festive Walk East
1 Tampines Walk
Singapore 528523

📅 28 Sept (Sat) & 29 Sept (Sun)
⏰ 10am to 6pm
📍 Toa Payoh HDB Hub Atrium
500 Lorong 6 Toa Payoh
Singapore 310500

📅 19 Oct (Sat) & 20 Oct (Sun)
📍 Keat Hong Community Club
2 Choa Chu Kang Loop, #01-01
Singapore 689687

📍 Till end-Oct
More than 15 public libraries across Singapore (Check out the SURE website for more details)

LAB25

Relive, rediscover and reimagine Singapore art and history with Re:Play AT SG, organised in collaboration with National Heritage Board’s annual Singapore Night Festival.

From 23 August to 7 September, join us at the National Library Building and National Archives of Singapore (NAS) to celebrate Singapore Stories and the magic of childhood, play and creativity with performances, installations and curated programmes! Visit too the Opera in Motion: A Dynamic Tribute to Chinese Opera installation at the National Design Centre, where you can also discover more about the history of Chinese opera in Singapore through the rich materials from National Library Singapore and NAS.

See you soon!

Check out the exciting programmes at https://go.gov.sg/atsg2024

📅 23 August - 7 September 2024

⏰ Check out the timings for each programme at the above link.

📍 National Library Building
100 Victoria Street,
Singapore 188064

📍 National Archives of Singapore
1 Canning Rise,
Singapore 179868

📍 National Design Centre, Courtyard
111 Middle Road,
Singapore 188969

Our heartiest congratulations to our NLB Scholarship 2024 awardees, Hayley Keola Cheah En, Ho Li Xuan and Misha Ghosh!

We are proud to support Keola, Li Xuan and Misha in their journey to become multi-disciplinary talents in information literacy, knowledge creation and preservation. We look forward to working closely together with them to make a positive impact in our community in the future.

🚠🇸🇬 Step into a decommissioned cable car, and journey through the 50-year history of Singapore’s first and only cable car system!

Hop on “Cable Cars: A Ride Through Time”, NLB’s latest Node, to discover more about this icon of Singapore’s leisure history through audiovisual recordings and photographs from the National Archives of Singapore. Explore too the cable car story across its five generations with the cable car-themed photo booth, pixel style exhibition panels, and eReads you can take home!

See you there!

📍 VivoCity, West Boulevard 1, Level 1
1 HarbourFront Walk, Singapore 098585

📅 12 to 25 August 2024

⏰ 10am to 10pm

For more details on our islandwide network of Nodes, visit https://www.nlb.gov.sg/main/visit-us/public-libraries-singapore/Nodes.

🇸🇬 Happy National Day, Singapore!

As we celebrate together 59 years of independence, come learn more about Singapore’s history and heritage with a treasure trove of archival material at the National Archives of Singapore’s (NAS) Archives Online.

Simply search across NAS's databases to view photographs, maps and plans, listen to oral history interviews, and watch snippets of audio-visual recordings, round the clock.

Visit National Archives Online at https://www.nas.gov.sg/archivesonline/, and discover our Singapore Stories today!
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Our libraries and archives will be closed on National Day, 9 August 2024, Friday. Do continue to check out our eBooks, eMagazines and eNewspapers via the NLB Mobile app!

Missing the Singapore radio programmes of the ‘50s to ‘70s? From today till 18 August, take a trip down memory lane at Rediscover Rediffusion, NLB’s newest Node, and step into the golden age of Rediffusion Singapore to learn more about Singapore's first commercial and cable-transmitted radio station.

Tune in to a curated selection of Mandarin and Chinese dialect Rediffusion programmes, and check out the archival photographs from the National Archives of Singapore’s collection.

You can also experience StoryGen, a Generative-AI prototype, to put your own twist on well-loved stories like “Journey to the West” and “Hua Mulan”. Enjoy too our curated eReads on Chinese fairytales and folklore.

For more details on our latest Nodes, visit https://go.gov.sg/nlb-rediscover-rediffusion.

📍 Chinatown Point
133 New Bridge Road, Chinatown Point, Singapore 059413

📆 5 - 18 August 2024
⏰ 10am-10pm

Did you know that you can explore over 1.9 million heritage materials on Singapore and Southeast Asia from the National Collection at the Lee Kong Chian Reference Library and online?

Check out publications about Singapore in English, Chinese, Malay and Tamil, along with original and unpublished materials in print and digital formats, including manuscripts, photographs, maps, microfilms and audio-visual materials.

Learn more here 👉🏻 https://go.gov.sg/nlb-national-collection.