The social role of the Raffles Library, Singapore, in the inter-war years

• 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::Libraries
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/91278; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/8357
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to examine the inter-war history of the Raffles Library in Singapore with the aim of understanding what the management of the library believed its role should be as well as the role others in that society considered that it should fulfill. Design/meth...