Colonialism, ethnicity, and geopolitics in the development of the Singapore National Library

• Main Author: Luyt, Brendan
• Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Library and information science
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/79678; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/8366
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This article addresses three key social, political, and economic forces that influenced the development of the Singapore National Library in the 1950s and 1960s. Singapore inherited a British colonial system that neglected both the education of indigenous residents and library development. A major i...