RE: [ossig] Malaysian Tech Libraries?

[Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 10:50, Nicholas Adrian Suppiah wrote:
> Hi Kristy,
> 
> I have friends who go to Petaling Jaya library, but most of the good books cannot be taken out. I do not know what she meant by good IT books, but its worth a try.
> 
Doesn't Apitt have a Good IT Library? Then again, it's not accessible to
outsiders.

I would believe that Most if not all M'sian libraries, for lack of a
better word "Crap"

Been to the National Library a couple of times during College. Sucked.

Went to S'pore couple of months back, each(most) little district(?) has
their own library which has a good selection of books. When I was there,
I checked out LDAP and NAS from O'Reilly and Flipped through.

Over here, if you need to read, the only way is to either
1. google and get the free books, Bruce Perens series, Python (dive into
python, and Ditesh was right, it's not really a great book, kind of
messy from what it looks to me)

2. Buy. Average cost of books is like RM130 as stated. I spent close to
RM 500 just last year within 2-3 months to get 3 books or so.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ossig@mncc.com.my [mailto:owner-ossig@mncc.com.my]On Behalf
> Of Kristy Christie
> Sent: 14 February 2005 16:48
> To: ossig@mncc.com.my
> Subject: [ossig] Malaysian Tech Libraries?
> 
> 
> Does anyone know of a fairly up-to-date library with tech books? I've 
> been meaning to read up on
> stuff like GTK programming etc (I was reminded with the recent thread on 
> php-gtk) but
> with books costing around $130 each, I've been delaying it :)
> 
> Haven't visited the National Library in years.. so I was just wondering.
> 
> Thanks,
> Kristy
> 
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