Librarian Services – Adults

We cater to the general information and recreational needs for adults and Senior Citizens, through our programmes, reading groups, outreach events and collections.

Senior Citizens

For Senior Citizens, we aim to create social spaces in our public libraries to encourage community learning in areas such as:

• Leisure and recreational
• Post-retirement finances and activities
• Health and wellness
• Continual / life-long learning

Collections for Adults

Collections for Adults are available in English, Chinese, Malay and Tamil.

The collections are arranged by the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system, with certain collections categorized by 10 popular subjects.

Popular subject categories:

• Arts – [ART]
• Business & Finance – [BIZ]
• Computers & IT – [COM]
• Cookery – [COO]
• Family & Parenting – [FAM]
• Health and Fitness – [HEA]
• Home & Garden – [HOM]
• Pets and Animals – [ANI]
• Recreation – [REC]
• Travel Guides – [TRA]

Other collection areas:

• Fiction
• Singapore Collection (Fiction & Non-Fiction)
• General (Non-Fiction arranged according to Dewey Decimal Classification)
• Newspapers & Magazines
• Reference (only available at regional libraries and selected community libraries)
• Microfilm (only available at regional libraries)
• Audio-visual materials including video tapes, VCDs, DVDs, CD-ROMs, music CDs, music scores (only available at selected regional and community libraries)

Librarian Services – Teens

Our services to teens range from programmes, bookclubs, booktalks, library enrichment workshops, to collections that serve the educational, recreational and developmental needs of young people.

Library Enrichment Workshops and Book Talks
The Young People Services librarians conduct library enrichment workshops and book talks during class visits and outreach to schools. Our Public Libraries also offer mass borrowing service to schools, where students can borrow library books.

Teen Fiction Reading Kits and Resource Lists
Our librarians develop Teen Fiction Reading Kits and Resource Lists on topics such as “Comic & Graphic Novels”, “Chick Lit”, “Adventure Stories for Boys”, “Managing Stress”, “Handling Project Work”, and much more.

Mentor Programmes
We mentor our youth volunteers in areas like the selection of books and audio-visual materials for the Teens Library, planning library programmes, and other special projects at the library.

Volunteer Opportunities
Our network of public libraries also offers volunteer opportunities to students who need to fulfill Community Involvement Programme (CIP) hours as part of the school curriculum.

Blog for Teens
Through our blog for teens (blogs.nlb.gov.sg/yo), we aim to connect and engage young people to resources that they would find useful to their overall developmental needs.

Check out our Facebook group for photos, videos, and updates.

Librarian Services – Children

To nurture a love for reading and lifelong learning in children, NLB’s Children’s Services has continued to expand our available range of programmes and services. In addition to telling good stories, we have also started to focus on holistic literacy development through interactive workshops by librarians on story dramatization, author highlights, reader profiling, introduction to fiction genre and story writing.To supplement the regular programmes at the libraries, new reading initiatives are being rolled out and these include: Junior Reading Clubs, Annual Asian Children’s Festival and Born to Read, Read to Bond programme where parents take an active participation in their child’s reading development. Regular children’s reading clubs (in English, Malay and Mandarin) and kidsREAD clubs have also been started.

With numerous materials being published every year, our Children’s Services aim to promote good literature to children through publishing our own bibliographies, booklists, pathfinders, monthly posters as well as the quarterly newsletter called Hooked On Tales to highlight authors and their works.

And what if you need answers to all your questions? Our advisory service, kidsASK!, is not only available to provide children with advice on good age-appropriate books and tips on reading, librarians also answer any form of reference questions posed to them via email, phone, enquiry forms or face-to-face.

As we recognise that schools and parents are important conduits to inculcate the reading habit in children. Our librarians work with schools to conduct a series of fun-filled activities such as mass borrowing, educational tours, storytelling, introduction of library services during assembly talks, book-talking, reader profiling which are all aimed at enticing children to pick up books to read. Parents too can play a part by participating in library-organized parenting workshops like Raise-A-Reader, Parenting Reading Coach Club and Family Interest Groups.

With the above service offerings, NLB Children’s Services sets its vision high to be the immediate choice for children’s reading and informational needs.

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