Singapore’s National Library Board Launches New Mobile App, Book Genre Themed Subway Trains with Recommended Reads QR Code
From Channel News Asia:
App users will be able to download up to eight e-books, an increase from the current quota of six e-book loans per user.
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Working in partnership with the Land Transport Authority, NLB also launched two trains decorated in themes organised around book genres, including mystery, fantasy, self-help and autobiography.
The trains will also carry QR codes linked to a website with recommended reads. There, members of the public can read book excerpts before they decide to download the app.
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See Also: Additional Images (via Land Transport Authority via Facebook)
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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