Re: [ossig] Malaysian Tech Libraries?

[Kristy Christie <kristy@xxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the suggestions.. will check out the British Council & PJ 
library and stay away from the
National Library *grin*


Thanks,
~Kristy

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> try the british council. at the very least the ambience is nice.... :-)
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> Ground Floor, West Block
> Wisma Selangor Dredging
> 142C Jalan Ampang
> 50450 Kuala Lumpur
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> http://www.britishcouncil.org/malaysia.htm
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> Ow Mun Heng wrote:
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> | 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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