Jurong West Public Library is a

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Jurong West Jurong West is a planning area and residential town located in the West Region of Singapore. Jurong West shares boundaries with Tengah in the north, Jurong East in the east, Boon Lay and Pioneer in the south, and Western Water Catchment in t ...

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...

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

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

. It is the first public library owned by the

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to be located inside a

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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, children, 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 **

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** AV materials **

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

Level 2

* Children's collection **

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*** Information books ****

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Malay Malay may refer to: Languages * Malay language or Bahasa Melayu, a major Austronesian language spoken in Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei and Singapore ** History of the Malay language, the Malay language from the 4th to the 14th century ** Indonesi ...

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Tamil Tamil may refer to: * Tamils, an ethnic group native to India and some other parts of Asia **Sri Lankan Tamils, Tamil people native to Sri Lanka also called ilankai tamils **Tamil Malaysians, Tamil people native to Malaysia * Tamil language, nativ ...

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** 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 **

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References

External links

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

History

Layout

Level 1

Level 2

Level 3

See also

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