New Librarians

from left: Phoebe, Ruan Yang and Mei

Ms Phoebe Lim
Library Promotion Division
Subject Librarian for Communication
phoebelim@ntu.edu.sg

Phoebe joined the NTU Library late June 2006 and is with the Library Promotion Division. She is also subject librarian for communication studies.

She graduated from National University of Singapore (NUS) with a Bachelor of Social Sciences (Hons) majoring in History and Political Science. From her own admission, she is a half-hearted undergraduate as she already knew she wanted to be a librarian during her first year of study at NUS. One of her history lecturers saw it fit to “subject” her classmates and her taking his course on Modern History of the Middle East and Africa to a library lecture and tutorial. She never enjoyed a lecture so much even though half her class dozed off.

She wanted to switch course till she found out that library studies is only offered at the postgraduate level, and none was offered in Singapore at all. She had to complete her basic degree. After graduation, it took her a while but she finally landed a librarian job with the National Library Board. 3 years later, she was in Melbourne Australia pursuing her library studies degree.

Phoebe has varied interests and likes to learn new things. Her pet learning projects at the moment are her websites at http://www.chinese-soups-recipes.com and http://www.oriental-furniture-guide.com which she is collaborating with her sister.

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Ms Tan Lay Peng (aka Mei Tan)
Art Librarian, Art, Design and Media Library
Mei_Tan@ntu.edu.sg

Mei is an art librarian with the Art, Design and Media Library. She has a Masters in Art History from Tulane University and a Masters in Library and Information Studies degree in Library Science from University of British Columbia.

Mei has worked for a couple of years as a counselor at the Singapore Corporation of Rehabilitative Enterprises (SCORE) and later on, as a programme coordinator at the Asian Welfare Women Association (AWWA) Family Service Centre. Before joining NTU, she worked as an administrator at a non-profit arts organization called Sculpture Square.

She hopes to use her specialized background in art history to assist the NTU community in their research. Her most immediate goal is to help develop a comprehensive art collection at NTU.

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Ruan Yang
Cataloguing Librarian, Bibliographic Services Division
Subject Librarian for Chinese Studies
ruanyang@ntu.edu.sg

Ruan Yang is a cataloguing librarian as well as a subject librarian for Chinese Studies. She had worked as an editor for a university press after she obtained her MSc degree (Publishing Science) from the School of Library & Information Science, Wuhan University, China. When she came to Singapore in 1999, she worked as a content developer in 2 local educational dot.com companies. She became interested in web technology and decided to go back to school to pursue a Masters of Applied Sciences in Information Studies at NTU. After her graduation, She thinks it is the right time and right place for her to start her library career right here at NTU Library.

“Reading is my good fortune (读书是福)!”