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Life Awards 2025

The Library Of Alexandria Award goes to NUS library’s ‘operational lapse’

CMG20250521-RChiong01/张俊杰/胡洁梅/Interview with Associate Professor Natalie Pang, University Librarian, National University of Singapore [Yale-NUS Library]

Some of the 8500 of the 9000 books that were due to be recycled were seen on half-empty shelves in the Yale-NUS Library on May 21, 2025.
CMG20250521-RChiong01/张俊杰/胡洁梅/Interview with Associate Professor Natalie Pang, University Librarian, National University of Singapore [Yale-NUS Library]

Some of the 8500 of the 9000 books that were due to be recycled were seen on half-empty shelves in the Yale-NUS Library on May 21, 2025.

Almost 8 in 10 adults read at least one book in past year: NLB reading survey

Visitors reading in Central Public Library.
Visitors reading in Central Public Library.

Forum: Consider paying local authors when their books are borrowed

China’s online literature expands overseas readership in cultural export push

China's online literature has seen a boom over the past decade with the number of authors and readers soaring.
China's online literature has seen a boom over the past decade with the number of authors and readers soaring.

Rise in book loans and visitor numbers at S’pore libraries in 2024: NLB

Library patrons checked out 38.8 million physical and digital items in 2024, which is 2.5 million more than in 2023.
Library patrons checked out 38.8 million physical and digital items in 2024, which is 2.5 million more than in 2023.

Speak to fictional characters, create your own classics at NLB’s new generative AI installations

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A preview of a Generative AI-powered ChatBook: Journey to the West, in Chinese and for fictional content., which is part of a National Library Node  at United Square on Jan 24, 2025.
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A preview of a Generative AI-powered ChatBook: Journey to the West, in Chinese and for fictional content., which is part of a National Library Node  at United Square on Jan 24, 2025.

Book culture isn’t dead, it’s just evolving

Every reader knows the joy of bonding with someone over a favourite read, and we should encourage all efforts to share this with others.
Every reader knows the joy of bonding with someone over a favourite read, and we should encourage all efforts to share this with others.

Trying my hand at ‘writing’ an AI-generated horror story

ffhorror - Visitors can embark on an immersive journey, inputting their prompts before they enter the experience to generate their own stories, then reading them as they navigate through the room.


PHOTO: NATIONAL LIBRARY BOARD
ffhorror - Visitors can embark on an immersive journey, inputting their prompts before they enter the experience to generate their own stories, then reading them as they navigate through the room.


PHOTO: NATIONAL LIBRARY BOARD

TikTok’s owner already publishes digital books. Now it is moving into print.

A BookTok display showing several books at a bookstore in Manhattan on June 14, 2023. Over the past few years, TikTok has become an indispensable way for publishers and authors to market books to younger readers.
A BookTok display showing several books at a bookstore in Manhattan on June 14, 2023. Over the past few years, TikTok has become an indispensable way for publishers and authors to market books to younger readers.

I’ve 15 physical books: I’m not embarrassed by what it seems to say about me

Among the US respondents of a YouGov survey on book-owning, 14 per cent own between 11 and 25 books, while 25 per cent own at least 100.
Among the US respondents of a YouGov survey on book-owning, 14 per cent own between 11 and 25 books, while 25 per cent own at least 100.

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