Re: [ossig] Malaysian Tech Libraries?

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

On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 15:31, Kristy Christie wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestions.. will check out the British Council & PJ 
> library and stay away from the
> National Library *grin*

Please let us know if it's any good. I for one will make a beeline for
it. 

Hard Copies are always better than softcopies.

> 
> 
> Thanks,
> ~Kristy
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> > try the british council. at the very least the ambience is nice.... :-)
> >
> >
> > 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:
> >
> > | 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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