...Hui Lin; Brendan Luyt Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of the National Library of Singapore in the life of Singaporeans. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses historical research. McMillan and Chavis’ theory of sense of community is adopted...

...Brendan Luyt Purpose The purpose of this article is to examine the inter‐war history of the Raffles Library in Singapore with the aim of understanding what the management of the library believed its role should be as well as the role others in that society considered that it should fulfill...

...Adrian Kay Heng Heok; Brendan Luyt Purpose This study aims to investigate the discourses surrounding the provision of internet access in Singapore through the public library system and to consider what the government, librarians and members of the public consider are the legitimate uses...

... Technology University, Singapore. The taxonomy was built by using the Dewey Decimal Classification, the Information Science Taxonomy, two information systems taxonomies, and three thesauri (ASIS&T, LISA, and ERIC). Findings Classification schemes and thesauri were found to be helpful in creating...

...Brendan Luyt Purpose The purpose of this paper is to show how the library management of the Raffles Library and Museum (the former name of the National Library of Singapore) positioned the library in relation to the wider colonial society of which it was a part. More widely, the aim is to explore...

... efforts to enhance access to networked digital cultural resources, this paper seeks to explore the development of a taxonomy for the same purpose. Design/methodology/approach A methodology was developed for the construction of a 500‐term taxonomy for a Singapore‐based cultural heritage network. Based...