Society for Reading and Literacy
Email: serenewee@bookcouncil.sg

Serene Wee is President of The Society for Reading & Literacy where she is actively involved with literacy and reading programmes. With a Bac. Soc. Sc. (Hons) degree in English Literature and Sociology, and a teaching diploma from Goethe Institute, Germany, she worked as a language instructor in English and German for ten years. Ms. Wee attends to her day job as Managing Consultant specializing in ISO Quality Management Systems.

Singapore Booksellers and Stationers Association
Email: asiapacbooks@pacific.net.sg

She is the Managing Director of Asiapac Books Pte Ltd, a publishing house which she founded in 1983. Asiapac is renowned for producing illustrated books and comics on a range of subjects covering Asian wisdom and culture. Ms Lim is an active member of the Singapore Book Publishers Association, the Singapore Chinese Book Publishers Association, and the Singapore Society of Asian Studies. She is also conferred the title of ‘Spirit of Enterprise Award: Year 2004 Honouree’.

Individual Member
Email: lailin@nlb.gov.sg

Mrs. Kiang-Koh Lai Lin, is the Director of Programmes and Events Management Division in the National Library Board of Singapore and has been with the Library since 1973. Lai Lin also served as the Information coordinator, Libraries for Children and Young Adults Section, IFLA from 2000 to 2005. The SCL News of the IFLA Libraries for Children and Young Adults Section, June 2005 issue had won the Newsletter of the Year in 2005. Lai Lin was awarded “The Public Administration Medal (Bronze)” in 1990 and The Long Service Award in 2000.

Individual Member
Email: Johnson_PAUL@nlb.gov.sg

Johnson Paul was with the Corporate and Strategic Planning Division of the Ministry of Information and the Arts before he joined the National Library Board of Singapore in 1997. He also serves as the Regional Network Development Manager for CONSAL (Congress of Southeast Asian Librarians) and is primarily involved in the collaborative initiatives of CONSAL member countries. In 1999 he contributed significantly to the reconstruction of the National Library Board's reference services to Customized Information Services (CIS), paving the way for the development of commercial services in information packaging and information literacy. Johnson is currently Deputy Director of Publishing and Research Services (PRS) of the National Library Board of Singapore.

National Library Board
Email: azizah@nlb.gov.sg

Azizah obtained her Masters of Science in Information Studies from the Nanyang Technological University in 1997. She has been a reference librarian since 1989. Currently, she is the Reference Specialist with the Lee Kong Chian Reference of the National Library Board. She has assisted several researchers in their work and has been acknowledged in some of their publications.

Singapore Book Publisher Association
Email: tan_betty@englishcorner.sg

Betty Tan, Managing Director of English Corner Publishing Pte Ltd, focuses on children’s science magazines published locally as well as two other magazines published under licence. The company has also secured copyright and exclusive distribution rights to some major’s children’s magazines and children readers that run in series. Betty was once a Honorary Secretary of The Singapore Deaf Association, an Exco member of the Children Society, The Community Chest of Singapore and The Children’s Charities and was mostly an active member in the Fund Raising Committee.

Individual Member
Email: leo@alslibs.com.sg

Leo Vincent started his first job in the book industry in 1983 with MPH Bookstores. He left MPH in 1999 to start his own business at Advance Library Services Pte Ltd. ALS has established itself as one of the 'shelf-ready' vendors providing a full spectrum of library services including collection development, full cataloguing services, and sourcing of print and non-print materials for both academic and public libraries.

Yayasan Mendaki
Email: alkaff@mendaki.org.sg

Library Association of Singapore
Email: Ambika_RAGHAVAN@nlb.gov.sg

Individual Member
Email: sandycheung@cch.com.sg

Sandy Cheung has over 15 years of corporate experience in business development, marketing & PR, event management and sponsorship. Sandy has worked as a Project Manager with Reed Exhibitions responsible for marketing and selling of exhibitions and conferences. Subsequent to that she moved into advertising and sponsorship in the education industry. She is now the Senior Product Manager (Southeast Asia) of CCH Asia, a leading global information provider in Taxation, Accounting, Employment and Business Law.

Association of Singapore Tamil Writers
Email: thuraimanikam@yahoo.com.sg

R. Thuraimanikam is the Vice President of the Singapore Tamil Writers Association. He has written for Tamil language newspapers like Tamil Murasu, Tamil Malar andTamil Nesan and he was the Editor of magazines like “Mannavar Poonga” and “Kolgai Mullakam”. He has also compiled short stories he wrote for the Singapore Tamil radio into two books, “Vallar Pirai” (Crescent) and “Yellai Kottu” (Boundary). One of his short story compilations,“Kalam Kadanthu Vittathu” (Time Has Passed) was published in 1990, in conjunction with the celebration of Singapore’s 25th National Day.