Self-service library debuts in Singapore

From the Straights Times:

When Sengkang Community Library opens on Dec 1 at the Compass Point Shopping Centre, it will have no service counters. Users will also have a hard job trying to spot a librarian, because just one will be holding the fort at this self-service library, which is meant to serve about 61,000 residents . . .

The only other full-time employee will be a security guard. But volunteers will help run the place. Clients who need help navigating the 1,800 sq m facility with its 120,000 books, magazines and newspapers must pick up the phone and call a \’cybrarian\’ based at the Tampines library . . .

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