Jurong West Public Library is a

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Jurong West Jurong West is a Planning Areas of Singapore, planning area and New towns of Singapore, residential town located in the West Region, Singapore, West Region of Singapore. Jurong West shares Wiktionary:boundary, boundaries with Tengah, Singapore, ...

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. It is co-located with The Frontier Community Club at Jurong West Community Building. The nearest MRT station is

Boon Lay Boon Lay (, ) is a neighbourhood located in the town of Jurong West in the West Region, Singapore, West Region of Singapore. Its borders very roughly correspond to the URA subzone of Boon Lay Place, situated within the Jurong West Planning Area. ...

. It is the first public library owned by the

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to be located inside a mall.

History

The library was originally called Jurong West Community Library. It was officially opened on 28 March 1996 by Mr Ho Kah Leong, who was the then Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Ministry of Environment and Member of Parliament for Jurong. The library was located at

Jurong Point Jurong Point ( Chinese:裕廊坊) is a large regional shopping mall in the precinct of Jurong West Central in Jurong West, Singapore. It is next to Boon Lay MRT station and Boon Lay Bus Interchange. It is currently the largest shopping mall in S ...

. It was relocated to The Frontier Community Place after being closed for 2 months. It reopened on 10 March 2006. It was renamed as Jurong West Public Library after the renovation. It currently has 3 levels and is integrated with the community centre.

Layout

The library consists of three levels. The first level contains adult and young adult materials, the second level contains further children's materials and family planning information, and the third level contains adult fiction and non-fiction.

Level 1

* Adult's collection **

Fiction Fiction is any creative work, chiefly any narrative work, portraying character (arts), individuals, events, or setting (narrative), places that are imagination, imaginary or in ways that are imaginary. Fictional portrayals are thus inconsistent ...

** AV materials **

Magazines A magazine is a periodical literature, periodical publication, print or digital, produced on a regular schedule, that contains any of a variety of subject-oriented textual and visual content (media), content forms. Magazines are generally fin ...

* Young People's collection ** AV materials * Children's collection ** AV materials

Level 2

* Children's collection **

Non fiction Non-fiction (or nonfiction) is any document or media content that attempts, in good faith, to convey information only about the real world, rather than being grounded in imagination. Non-fiction typically aims to present topics objectively ...

*** Information books ****

English English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Culture, language and peoples * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England * ''English'', an Amish ter ...

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Chinese Chinese may refer to: * Something related to China * Chinese people, people identified with China, through nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity **Han Chinese, East Asian ethnic group native to China. **'' Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic ...

**** Malay ****

Tamil Tamil may refer to: People, culture and language * Tamils, an ethno-linguistic group native to India, Sri Lanka, and some other parts of Asia **Sri Lankan Tamils, Tamil people native to Sri Lanka ** Myanmar or Burmese Tamils, Tamil people of Ind ...

** Fiction ***

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**** Malay ****

** Singapore collection ** Books for babies * Adult's collection ** Family & parenting

Level 3

* Adult's collection ** Fiction *** English *** Chinese *** Malay *** Tamil ** Non fiction *** Business & finance *** Recreation *** IT *** Arts *** Cooking *** Recreation **

Comics a Media (communication), medium used to express ideas with images, often combined with text or other visual information. It typically the form of a sequence of Panel (comics), panels of images. Textual devices such as speech balloons, Glo ...

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Manga are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long history in earlier Japanese art. The term is used in Japan to refer to both comics ...

References

External links

National Library Board
{{Authority control Libraries in Singapore Jurong West 1996 establishments in Singapore Libraries established in 1996