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

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Luyt, Brendan
Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: 2012
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/79678
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/8366