✨Paul Abisheganaden played a defining role in shaping music education in Singapore, and his legacy lives on in NUS. Discover how he was involved in the early years of NUS' musical journey, and how the University navigated challenges to lay the foundation for generations of music-makers. 🎻🎵 https://blog.nus.edu.sg/linus/2025/03/20/scaling-musical-highs/

Undergraduate Research Library Fellowship Symposium
🎉 In celebration of the remarkable research endeavours of our esteemed fellows, we invite you to join us at this session, which will bring you insights into their research journeys 👣 and highlight how their projects are poised to make meaningful contributions to academia and society at large. 🎓

Find out more at https://nus.edu.sg/nuslibraries/researcher-unbound/current-workshops/undergraduate-research-library-fellowship-symposium-May2025.

From its early beginnings in education and local practice to its rise as a global leader in pharmaceutical sciences, the NUS Department of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences has shaped the future of pharmacy since the early 20th century. 💊✨ Curious about its transformation through the decades?

Dive into the rich history of innovation through this article, which presents a thoughtfully curated selection of books and key resources tracing the evolution of pharmacy education, pharmaceutical sciences, and medicinal innovations. https://blog.nus.edu.sg/linus/2025/03/17/120-years-of-pharmacy-pharmaceutical-sciences-at-nus-a-legacy-in-texts-and-discoveries/

📕Two groundbreaking periodicals — Al-Imam and Al-Ikhwan — stand as powerful testaments to a key chapter in the Malay-Muslim reformist movement.
Preserved and digitised in our library, these works offer rich insights into early 20th-century intellectual discourse, shaped by figures like Syed Sheikh Al-Hadi. 💬🌟 https://blog.nus.edu.sg/linus/2025/04/03/al-imam-al-ikhwan-and-the-reformist-vision-of-syed-sheikh-al-hadi-key-intellectual-publications-in-nus-libraries-special-collections/

Statement by University Librarian on Relocation of Yale-NUS College Library Books

In maintaining our library collection, excess books are routinely rehomed in other libraries or given away to faculty members and, at times, students. Books which are not taken up are then sent for recycling, in line with common library practices.

In our current exercise of relocating the books from the Yale-NUS College Library, the majority of the books has been rehomed within NUS Libraries.

In this instance, excess books were offered only to faculty members, and not students.

We understand later that many students are interested in having these books and we would have usually acceded to their requests. We did not do so on this occasion, and we apologise for the operational lapse.

In view of the strong interest from students, we are now organising a giveaway on campus so that the excess books can find a new home (1/2)

Going forward, we are reviewing our process and will take proactive steps to distribute excess books to the NUS community and the wider public so that they can benefit as many people as possible.

Associate Professor Natalie Pang
University Librarian, NUS Libraries

(2/2)

Thank you to the Yale-NUS community - faculty, staff, students and alumni - for coming to bid the Yale-NUS Library a fond farewell, and helping to re-home our books. We're now left with around 2,000 books yet to be adopted!

If you're planning to visit us in the next few days, we suggest that you come early to avoid being disappointed, and to check on our social media for the latest updates. Books will be released to adopters on a first-come-first-served basis.

Thank you once again for your keen interest, and for giving us a chance to set things right.

Thank you, Yale-NUS community! Due to your overwhelming response, our first book adoption drive has wrapped up earlier than expected.

For those who’ve missed out, our next book adoption and exchange event is happening on 14 June at Central Library. Stay tuned! https://nus.edu/nusladoption2

⚓️ Dive into the rich maritime heritage of the Bugis people with the "Daeng Paduppa", a handwritten manuscript that systematically recorded travels, daily occurrences, and observations on maritime life in the 1880s. ⛵️

This rare manuscript not only offers a window into a long-lost a indigenous knowledge system, but also challenges the dominance of colonial and external narratives in Southeast Asian historiography. https://blog.nus.edu.sg/linus/2025/04/30/a-bugis-journal-log/

Fancy a light-hearted and quirky read about animals? Well, here's one by Tweedie (what a name)! 🐢🐦🐜

🐾 Discover how Tweedie’s passion for nature brought the region’s wildlife to life on the radio—and why his work still inspires today. 🌻✨✨https://blog.nus.edu.sg/linus/2025/04/24/radio-naturalist-getting-to-know-animals-through-tweedies-dedication/

From NUS' origins as the Straits and Federated Malay States Government Medical School, how did it become KEVII Medical School and later, the College of Medicine? 🩺

In this story, we unearth the history, the key people and the curriculum in the early days. 🗝 https://blog.nus.edu.sg/linus/2025/05/09/unearthing-the-king-edward-vii-kevii-medical-school-and-college-of-medicine/

📍 The Wan Boo Sow Chinese Library houses a large reproduction of a calligraphy piece by Pan Shou (潘受). Titled "Reflections of Reading", it is based on a poem by Zhu Xi (朱熹). 📚

Explore how Pan Shou’s art and Zhu Xi's poem combine to inspire generations, and how the piece aligns with our library’s purpose. 🧭 https://blog.nus.edu.sg/linus/2025/05/14/pan-shous-legacy-celebrating-calligraphy-and-intellectual-heritage-at-nuss-wan-boo-sow-chinese-library/

🎼 In this story, we shine a spotlight on the music scores created by Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music teaching staff—composer Ho Chee Kong, Peter Edwards, Chen Zhangyi and Adeline Wong. Beyond musical notation, these carefully curated archived scores tell of different stories, from SARS to memorialising a loved one. 💌🎵 https://blog.nus.edu.sg/linus/2025/05/16/perfect-score-notationally-speaking/ #NUS120

💻 Long before the age of Google and digital databases, finding research periodicals was no easy feat😵‍💫Yet students and researchers still found what they needed—thanks to publications painstakingly compiled and published by the university library. This is the story of how the library created its own systems to help the academic community locate and access periodicals on the shelves, making knowledge discoverable in a pre-digital world.🔎📚 https://blog.nus.edu.sg/linus/2025/05/21/university-librarys-publications-a-gateway-to-find-past-research-periodicals/