Singapore's National Library's portal, www.nlb.gov.sg , including its newly created digital library,with its wide range of e-books, e-zines and dozens of special databases, provides access to book lovers in any part of the world.
This contains many rare books and pictures, which are part of Singapore's history. The total number of e-book resources is already over 500,000. Dozens of periodicals in English, Chinese and Tamil the island's official languages are also available for online reference, although some are restricted to within the system's 24 libraries. The library is also re[ository of some rare manuscripts.
The library's registered readers in Singapore have the option of downloading and reading at home up to four books at a time the same number that they were able to hitherto borrow.
Having become the first in the world to harness the technology of RFID Radio Frequency Identification to tag every book in its collection, even two years ago, Singapore's National Library, has once more gone where few libraries have ventured into an e-nabled digital future.
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