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Interested in feministic perspectives on film, television, and visual media? Researching on the analyses of the cultural politics of globalization?

You would love to know that the library now has access to most recent issues of the two most read journals published by Duke University Press!

Click ‘Connect’ and select “Duke University Press” to access the Journal via NTU Library A to Z E-Journal List.

Camera Obscura
This journal provides spotlight to emerging feministic writers in the field of visual media in relation to race studies, postcolonial studies and queer studies. The library now has the complete access to all the issues since year 2000.

Public Culture
This jounal is a three-time CELJ award-winning journal that provides a forum for cultural studies, popular cultures and globalization. The publisher say, “Providing a forum for the internationalization of cultural studies, Public Culture essays have mapped the capital, human, and media flows drawing cities, peoples, and states into transnational relationships and political economies.”

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Thirty years ago, Feb 27, 1979, then Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew called a meeting of ministers, ministers of state and senior civil servants to discuss how government papers and minutes can be written in clear, clean prose.

Below are excerpts of Mr Lee’s address on the quality of written English – which remains recognisibly the same even after 30 years.

“The facility to express yourself in a written language is yet another facet or manifestation of your ability, plus application and discipline.

Our biggest obstacle to better English is shyness. It is a psychological barrier. Nobody likes to stop and ask, “Please, what does that mean?” or “Please tell me, where have I gone wrong?” To pretend you know when
you don’t know is abysmal folly.

The written English we want is clean, clear prose. I choose my words carefully- not elegant, not stylish, just clean, clear prose. It means simplifying, polishing and tightening.”

Quotes extracted from the “Adress by the Prime Ministers, Ministers of State and Senior Civil Service Officers at the Regional Language Centre on 27 Feb 79″. Click here to view the full speech.

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All NTU Libraries will be closed on 26th & 27th January 2009.

Wishing all a Happy Lunar New Year!

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Dear Library Users,

HSS Library Restroom will be closed from 4th to 14th December 2008 for minor upgrading works.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Thank you.

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