Facilities of the National University of Singapore

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The main campus of the National University of Singapore (NUS) is located in the southwestern part of Singapore, adjacent to the Kent Ridge subzone of Queenstown, accommodating an area of 170 ha (420 acres).[1] The Duke–NUS Medical School, a postgraduate medical school jointly established with Duke University, is located at the Outram campus,[2] and its Bukit Timah campus houses the Faculty of Law and Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.

University Cultural Centre

NUS hosts NUSNET, an intranet, which is used in research, teaching, learning and administration. In 2004, a campus-wide grid computing network was deployed, connecting at least 1,000 computers. At the time, it was one of the largest of such virtual supercomputing facilities in the region.[3]

Libraries

The NUS Libraries currently comprises seven libraries: the Central Library, Wan Boo Sow Chinese Library (Chinese: 雲茂潮中文图书馆), C J Koh Law Library, Hon Sui Sen Memorial Library, the Medicine+Science Library, Music Library and Yale-NUS College Library.[4] As of June 2017, there were 2,354,741 unique titles, and 26,074 microform resources[5] in the collection.[6] This has since expanded to 3,018,572 unique physical titles, 94,446 electronic periodicals, 1,244,448 electronic books and 936 databases, as of 2022.[7]

Digital newspaper archive database

The NUS Libraries established a digital newspaper archive database, GEMS, which contains various digitized collections, including Chinese-language newspapers published in Southeast Asian countries in the 19th and 20th centuries. Currently, 152 types are included, including Chinese newspapers from Singapore and Malaysia and historical documents on China and overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia. Most of these documents are publicly accessible resources and are free to readers.[8]

GEMS also contains periodicals and books from the 20th century and is free to readers also.

University Town

The NUS University Town (UTown) opened in August 2011. Located at the Kent Ridge campus, it was built on the site of a former golf course.[9] UTown hosts four residential colleges, a graduate residence,[10] the shared NUS College and NUS Law campus (formerly the Yale-NUS campus), research institutes (such as the TUM CREATE), lecture theatres, restaurants, convenience stores, and a barber shop.

Transportation

Student accommodation

References

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