Nanyang Technological University

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Nanyang Technological University

• Presented by
• Foo Kok Pheow
• University Librarian

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Mission

• Aims to be a world-class university
• Nurture high level manpower and leaders for the
  professions, industry and business
• Advance research and development in the academic
  and professional disciplines

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Main business activities

• Teaching
• Lifelong learning
• R D

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Staff

• Fulltime faculty 1,328
• Part-time faculty professional
  212
• Administrative staff 335
• Technical staff 600
• Students
• Full-time 19,600
• Part-time 3,400

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Campus Infrastructure

• Resources integrated for a networked teaching and
  learning environment
• Campus network with 21,400 points

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Campus Infrastructure

• Internet bandwidth 40 Mbps
• 12 Mbps dedicated to staff use
• 28 Mbps dedicated to student use
• Dialup lines 300
• NTUwireless 430 base stations
• NTUmobile WAP services (2 G)

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ICT Strategy

• High priority to teaching and research
• Medium priority to
• Library services
• Information Dissertation
• Administration

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Library Services InformationDissemination
through iGEMS University Portal

• An innovative project launched on 31 July 2001
• Aims to integrate disparate information sources
  and systems and provide seamless, one log-on,
  anywhere, anytime access to online information
  and services for the whole university community
  and interested public

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How users are supportedby the Library

• Provides 500 PCs in the Library for access to all
  networked services and resources
• Convenience of single log-on to all digital
  information resources and e-transactions
• Access with no more than 2 mouse clicks

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How users are supported by the Library

• Personalized delivery of relevant information
  resources
• Desktop delivery of all electronic library
  resources including remote online databases,
  audiovisual materials and multimedia
• E-publishing of research findings through
  submission online by staff and students to the
  Library