Nurturing a Nation of Readers: Sharing the Joy and Adventure of the Reading Experience through the Singapore public libraries.

The paper provides an insight into the critical success factors that lie behind the successful implementation of the following key reading programmes and initiatives organized by the Public Library Services Group of the National Library Board (NLB), Singapore: Library 2010 Reading Programmes: BookCross@Sg, Read & Reap, Deliver Me Nation-wide, Community-based Programmes: READ! Sg, kidsREAD, 10, 000 Fathers Reading, Junior Reading Ambassadors and MOLLY This paper will accompany a multimedia presentation designed to show how these programmes help to achieve NLB's aim to cater to the unique reading and learning needs of different library customer communities in Singapore. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]