华裔馆馆长周敏教授举行公开讲座

Public Lecture by CHC Director Professor Zhou Min

时间/time：7月5日星期六下午2点；2pm on Sat. 5^th July, 2014

地点Place：新加坡颜氏公会（三楼礼堂）Gan Clan Association Auditorium (Level 3)

18 Bukit Pasoh Rd. Singapore 089832

电话/Phone: +65 6223 0739/ 9178 2041

《美国華人的教育成就的背后》Behind the Extraordinary Educational Achievement of Chinese Americans

简介：周敏教授通過多年的社會學研究，從學者、家長和子女不同的角度，整體透視美国華人教育的成功經驗與教訓。

Synopsis: In this public lecture, Prof Zhou unfolds the educational experiences of contemporary Chinese immigrants in the Unites States and their US-born or US-raised children. Through years of sociological research and from diverse perspectives of the scholar, parent, and child, she analyzes the reasons for success while highlighting the hidden lessons of success.

Recently Wang Gungwu Library has kicked off book exchange programme with Xiamen University (厦门大学). As part of collaboration series between NTU Library and Xiamen University Library, this programme is meant to enhance library collections especially monographs, scholarly papers and other university publications which are hardly obtained through normal channels. The first bunch, about 1,000 volumes has been packed and sent to NTU Library acquisition department for shipping. Meanwhile, hundreds of books from Xiamen University are also on the way to our library.

More book exchange programmes with other significant institutions will be conducted in a foreseen future. We have contacted with Jinan University (暨南大学) and Wuyi University (五邑大学) and got very positive responses. We believe these kinds of programmes not only benefits our users from availability of publications not usually obtainable from local libraries, but more importantly, help to build good relationship between our centre and these institutions.

                                       王赓武图书馆图书交换计划

近日王赓武图书馆展开了与厦门大学图书馆的图书交换计划。作为双方深入开展系列合作项目之一，该计划对丰富我馆学术出版物、学术论文及其他在公开市场上不易购得的出版物收藏有着极大的促进作用。第一批为数约1000册的复本图书已整理装箱完毕，暂存于南洋理工大学图书馆文献采集部等待运送。同时，厦门大学所交换的300余册书籍也将于近期抵达。

此外，王赓武图书馆也会与其他学术机构开展更多的图书交换计划，以最小支出来实现资源的优化配置。目前我们已经获得了暨南大学、五邑大学的回复，其负责人均对图书交换计划表示极大的兴趣，相关准备工作业已在进行之中。我们相信，这些图书交换计划不仅能使我们的读者更方便地获取到本地不易求得的学术资源，更重要的是有益于我馆与这些学术机构建立良好的合作关系，以期开展更多深层次的交流活动。

By Lee Xin Yi (Nanyang Spectrum Reporter)

Research has never been made easier with the newly implemented QR-coded textbooks at Wang Gungwu library. Since it’s official opening in 2010, the library has been stepping up its game to make life easier for technology-savvy patrons. With a smartphone in hand, patrons can now scan the readily available QR-tags to gain access to the library’s digital contents such as brief summaries and important background information of the textbooks.

The launch of this new initiative has also seen researchers of the library’s “Early Textbook Collection” spending less time browsing through the plethora of research materials.

Terry Ong, a student researcher, shares that, “I think it appeals to us cause nowadays everyone uses smartphones. So with the information, we can also screenshot it for later use.”

Besides the QR-coded textbooks initiative, Wang Gungwu library has also introduced an interactive touch-screen to engage their younger audience. These new touches have also given the library’s “Early Chinese Textbook Collection” a new lease of life.

Lastly, with the fusion of technology, patrons can now look forward to a more vibrant library culture at the Wang Gungwu library in the near future.

To View the report video, please click this link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPy6z4YTOeA.