Overview

Centrally located on the City Campus, the library building offers a range of work spaces - including open areas for individual or collaborative use, quiet individual carrels, book-able project rooms for 4-6 students equipped with LCD panels and a cafe within the library for study breaks. The entry level features a collaborative study area and a collection of lifestyle reading materials. The entire building is wireless and designed for your laptop use, and there are also wired ports and a limited number of dedicated computers, some with special use financial software. A library classroom for hands on training and other faculty research services, such as Centre for Academic Computing and Centre for Teaching and Learning are also in the building. Our emphasis is on access and dissemination, service and cooperation rather than on building large collections.

The library staff includes individuals with diverse backgrounds. Library staff have specialized degrees in library and information science from the poly to masters level and also degrees in subject areas key to SMU such as accounting, economics, law and social sciences. They bring experience from other institutions of higher learning both inside and outside of Singapore, from multinational corporations, research institutes, NGOs and government agencies. They all have two things in common: intellectual curiosity and their commitment to provide excellent customer focused -services for the SMU community.

The library partners with the SMU Communications & IT Department to facilitate your on-campus and off-campus authenticated access to our e-resources from anywhere in the world. Our partnership with SMU's Center for Academic Computing brings together library databases with financial and statistical research databases; and we work with CTL to integrate student course reading materials into course management software.

The library also serves as a place for a variety of campus activities including hosting our own cultural talks for the community, providing a venue for book launches and seminars and supporting the campus blood drive. We also host information and training sessions on developments in the library profession for our local and international colleagues.