Centres of calculation and unruly colonists : the colonial library in Singapore and its users, 1874- 1900

• Main Author: Luyt, Brendan
• Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Library and information science::Libraries::Administration and management
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/79679; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/7023
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Purpose: To show how the library management of the Raffles Library and Museum (the former name of the National Library of Singapore) positioned their library in relation to the wider colonial society of which it was a part. More widely, the aim is to explore the role of libraries within a colonial s...