Reading Corners in

 The community’s grassroots leaders and a few social service organisations will provide a variety of services and programmes at the site of the former Bukit Merah Public Library. These will include a mini-library and reading corner supported by NLB.  NLB has also worked with community partners to set up reading corners at various locations in Bukit Merah, so that residents continue to have access to library resources.  There are currently 12 reading corners in the Bukit Merah area, offering over 5,000 books and 250 seats in total. The full list is given in the table below.  At these reading corners, residents can enjoy collections of books donated by NLB, as well as spaces for reading. Programmes such as storytelling sessions will also be conducted at some reading corners.  If there is ground-up grassroots interest to set up more community-owned reading corners, NLB is also ready to facilitate the community’s effort by providing the reading corners with collections and training to guide grassroots volunteers in running these reading corners independently. For more information, please contact us at [email protected].  Apart from these reading corners, NLB will continue to visit and engage schools and organisations in the Bukit Merah community through activities such as mass borrowing and assembly talks.

List of reading corners:

Target Collection Location Address Opening hours audience Available

4000 Jalan Bukit Bukit Merah Merah, Children and 10:00am – 9:00pm Community Centre Adults 159465

400 Lengkok Leng Kee Children and Saturday & Sunday Public Bahru, Singapore Community Centre Adults 10.00am – 6.00pm 159049 67A Eu Chin Children and Street, Singapore 10:00am – 9:00pm Community Centre Adults 169715

Monday – Friday Enabling Village Adults 8:30am – 6:00pm

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Molly, the mobile library visits first Saturday of every month in 2019, from 9.00am – 12.00pm:

5 January 20 Lengkok 2 February Bahru, Singapore 2 March 159053 6 April 4 May 1 June 6 July 3 August 7 September 5 October 2 November 7 December 57 Lengkok SilverACE Lengkok Bahru, #01-491, Bahru senior activity Singapore centre 151057 71 Redhill Road, SilverACE Redhill #01-29, 1 Seniors senior activity centre Singapore 50071 Monday – Sunday, residing in 41 Adults 9:00am – 6:00pm the Bukit SilverACE Telok Rise, #01- Merah area Blangah senior 373, Singapore activity centre 090041 117 Jalan Bukit SilverACE Bukit Merah, #01- Merah senior activity 1683, Singapore centre 160117 26 Jalan Klinik Beyond Social #01-42/52, Children and Monday - Friday Services Singapore Adults 10:00am – 6:00pm Members of 160026 these 303 Henderson St Andrew’s Senior Monday - Friday organisations Road, Singapore Adults Care 7:30am - 6:00pm 108925 Teens Network Club 92 Henderson Children and Tuesday – Sunday @ Bukit Merah Road, #01-200, Teens 1:00pm – 9:00pm

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Singapore 150092 93 Henderson WELL Centre Road, Singapore Children 150093

Information was last updated on 22 August 2019. Please check with respective reading corners for any further changes or additional information.

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