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On the whole, ISEAS
Library is a self-service set-up. However, the ISEAS Library provides
a number of services as follows:
Information and Value-added Services
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Staff on
duty will serve users who have any reference enquiries,
or require assistance in using the SEALion catalogue or
audio-visual equipment. Request for closed access materials
such as back issues of journals and newspapers, and microform
can also be made there.
Value-added
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Photocopying
Facilities
Self-service photocopying facilities are available for a fee. Users are advised to observe
the conditions stipulated in the Singapore Copyright Act.
Interlibrary
Loans (ILL)
Books not available in the ISEAS Library may be borrowed on
Interlibrary Loan (ILL) from other libraries except for the
National University of Singapore (NUS) libraries where ISEAS
researchers have borrowing privileges. Affiliated researchers
may request ILL service at the Circulation/Information Counter.
ILL is only available for circulating materials, which means
that closed stack, reference and restricted materials cannot
be borrowed. Reciprocal ILL loan services are available among
Singapore libraries. Interested libraries can fill in
ILL Agreement Form.
Document Delivery
The Library can
supply copies of materials from its collections.
Access
to Other Libraries
Arrangements can be made for the Institute’s long-term
researchers and staff to use the facilities of other libraries
in Singapore offering reciprocal services, such as the NUS
libraries. Users requiring such an access should approach
the Circulation/Information Counter for a Letter of Introduction.
The professional staff will be able to advise on the libraries
relevant to the researcher’s needs.
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New
Arrivals, Book Display and Reservations
The Library’s new acquisitions can be looked up in
the online database SEALion. Selected titles are
displayed once a week. Researchers may reserve a title
on display by filling in a Reserve Slip and returning
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Briefings
and Orientations
From time to time, the
Library professional
staff are available to brief individual or group
visitors on the Library’s collection and services.
On request demonstration of the retrieval features
of the Library’s computerized databases will be conducted. The Library also conducts tours upon request. Interested persons may write to the
Head, ISEAS Library.
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Training
and Attachments
Practical training and attachments of professional staff of
libraries in the region and elsewhere are provided upon request.
The duration may be from one day to one month at a stretch.
Some are from training programmes organized by the National
Library Board for developing countries under ASEAN (Association
of Southeast Asian Nations) sponsorship. Institutions and
individuals may write to the Head,
ISEAS Library to make a request.
On
occasions, ISEAS Library accept sub-professionals or `near-qualified’
professionals, and information studies students for varying
duration as a goodwill gesture and to assist other developing
and similar libraries in their training programmes. It receives
students from the Singapore Nanyang Technological University
Department of Information Studies and the Temasek Polytechnic
Information Studies students for internships, practical training,
briefing and/or observation.
Fumigation
Services
The
ISEAS Library is offering the state of the art fumigation
service to libraries, institutions and individuals in
Singapore for a minimal cost. A one week advance notice is
required.
The
fumigation chamber is automated. It uses nitrogen gas,
environmentally safe for both human and materials, to
suffocate insects in all stages of their development and kill
fungus. There is no chemical residue on the surface of the
materials after fumigation.
Please
contact Ms Zaleha Tamby at 68702441 or email zaleha@iseas.edu.sg
for more information and quotation.
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