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Re: [ossig] Malaysian Tech Libraries?
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try the british council. at the very least the ambience is nice.... :-)
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http://www.britishcouncil.org/malaysia.htm
Ow Mun Heng wrote:
| 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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