The National Library Board and Singapore Computer Society Join Forces to Empower the Community with Digital Knowledge and Skills

Singapore, 26 Aug 2022

The National Library Board (NLB) and the Singapore Computer Society (SCS) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) today, 26 August 2022, at the SCS’s Tech³ Forum.

Under the MoU, NLB and SCS will collaborate to inspire and enable the public to learn more about Information Technology (IT), IT trends and innovations, and their application to daily life through resources on NLB and SCS’s physical and digital platforms, programmes and events, and SCS members’ support of NLB’s learning communities.

NLB and SCS’s joint efforts will augment the national priority to ready our citizens for a smart nation, and NLB’s LAB25 (Libraries and Archives Blueprint 2025) Equaliser role to bridge societal gaps and empower everyone with digital knowledge and skills.

Minister for Communications and Information, Mrs Josephine Teo (centre), Chief Executive Officer, National Library Board, Mr Ng Cher Pong (left), and President, Singapore Computer Society, Mr Sam Liew (right) at the signing of the NLB-SCS MoU. [Photo credit: Singapore Computer Society]

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About National Library Board

The National Library Board (NLB) nurtures Readers for Life, Learning Communities and a Knowledgeable Nation by promoting reading, learning and history through its network of 28 libraries, the National Library and the National Archives of Singapore. NLB also forges strategic partnerships that encourage awareness, appreciation and greater discovery of Singapore’s history through its rich collections on Singapore and the region.

NLB achieves excellence through innovation, focusing on citizen engagement and co-creation, resource and digital innovation. This creates learning opportunities, greater access to library resources, services and archival collections, as well as a continual development of innovative library spaces. Established on 1 September 1995 as a statutory board, NLB is under the Ministry of Communications and Information (MCI).

For more information, please visit the NLB website, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube.

About Singapore Computer Society

The SCS is the leading tech society for industry professionals, leaders, students, and tech enthusiasts. Armed with the mission of leading and driving vibrancy and growth of Singapore’s tech industry, we strive to raise the bar of the tech industry and add value to our members’ professional and personal development goals through publications, networking opportunities and our various certification programmes that enable skills upgrading and career advancement.

The SCS is the leading tech society for industry professionals, leaders, students, and tech enthusiasts. Armed with the mission of leading and driving vibrancy and growth of Singapore’s tech industry, we strive to raise the bar of the tech industry and add value to our members’ professional and personal development goals through publications, networking opportunities and our various certification programmes that enable skills upgrading and career advancement.

For more information, please visit https://www.scs.org.sg/.

For media enquiries, please contact:

Quah Jia Ling Tan Siow Peng
Weber Shandwick 
(Representing National Library Board)  Singapore Computer Society
Tel: +65 9699 0830 Tel: +65 9825 7539
Email: jquah@webershandwick.com  Email: siowpeng.tan@scs.org.sg