Some of the Best Public Libraries here Where You can Enjoy Studying and Reading in Quiet
If you love a quiet place where you can sit down and enjoy reading during your free time. Then check out these public libraries where you can find famous classics and brand-new titles by every author you love and also enjoying some nice facilities and architecture too.
Yishun Public Library
This library which is reopened in 2018 after a major facelift, is where you can find over 125,000 titles where the interiors are inspired by the neighborhood’s evolution from natural plantation heritage to a busy estate. There is also a virtual library that invites you to read and learn digitally here too.
Address:930 Yishun Ave 2, #04-01, Northpoint Shopping Centre
Singapore
769098
Price:FREEContact:
www.nlb.gov.sg
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Opening hours:11-9pm daily
Woodlands Regional Library
This is the first and the largest regional library where the Woodlands Regional Library is located close to Woodland’s MRT Station and this library is also nature-themed and has a special focus on children with its own features galore reading park which is the Asian Children’s Literature collection. It also houses a 250-seat auditorium in the basement, as well as a performance stage and 20-seat AV appreciation for a public screening of TV programs.
Address:Woodlands Civic Centre #01-03
900 South Woodlands Drive
Singapore
730900
Price:FREEContact:
www.nlb.gov.sg
Marine Parade Library
This first library is built on reclaimed land where the book repository is the only one in the city with a mezzanine level and you can browse through shelves of Young People titles and graphic novels. Children are free to read, learn and roam at its dedicated kids’ section on the second level. Its Programme Zone also hosts exciting programs including storytelling sessions for families.
Address:#01-02, Marine Parade Community Building
278 Marine Parade Road
Singapore
449282
Contact:
www.nlb.gov.sg
Opening hours:Daily 10am-9pm
Library@Harbourfront
Here this library where it is inside a shopping mall and you can find over 200,000 volumes of books including learning space for Children, teens and adults.
Address:#03-05, VivoCity
1 Harbourfront Walk
Singapore
098585
Contact:
www.nlb.gov.sg/VisitUs/BranchDetails/tabid/140/bid/301/Default.aspx?branch=Bukit+Merah+Public+Library
Opening hours:Daily 11am-9pm
Tampines Regional Library
This library is now having an extensive collection of reading, visual and audio materials for users of all ages as well as learning space such as the PA-managed culinary studies, interest groups, activities rooms, and indoor playground for kids.
Address:#02-01, Our Tampines Hub
1 Tampines Walk
Singapore
528523
Contact:
www.nlb.gov.sg
Opening hours:Daily 10am-9pm
National Library
This library where it aims to be more than just a place for a book reading and it has been now having architectural awards before it even opened and the new building is designed as two towers, linked with walkways and flanked almost entirely by the glass.
Address: National Library
100 Victoria St
Singapore
188064
Price:FREE
Contact:
www.nlb.gov.sg
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Opening hours:10am-9pm Daily
Library Of Botany and Horticulture
Located in Singapore Botanic Gardens where the Library of Botany and Horticulture houses an impressive collection or horticulture, landscape architecture of botanical research done in Singapore.
Address: Singapore Botanic Gardens
1 Cluny Rd
Singapore
259569
Contact:
www.nparks.gov.sg/sbg/research/library-of-botany-and-horticulture
Library@Orchard
This perfect pitstop when shopping in the city where it opens its door in 2014 and treating visitors to a cornucopia of resources centred on lifestyle, design and applied art.
Address:#03-12/#04-11 Orchardgateway
277 Orchard Rd
Singapore
238858
Library@Esplanade
This sited on the third floor of the Esplanade where this library is the resources hub for the performing arts. Music scores, compact discs, and many various literary journals, books, and magazines fill the 2,300-square-metre space, where ample sofa seats and chairs allow for comfortable reading sessions.
Address:#03-01 Esplanade
8 Raffles Ave
Singapore
039802
Price:FREEContact:
www.esplanade.com/about_the_centre/library/index.jsp
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Opening hours:11am-9pm Daily
Singapore Sports Hub Library
The Singapore Sports Hub Library is brimming with all the resources you could dream of where you can browse through heaps of prints, audiovisual and electronic resources of the various genre that includes sports, coaching, biographies, health, and fitness, as well as business management, science, medical and more.
Address:4 Stadium Walk
Singapore
397697
Contact:
www.sportsingapore.gov.sg/sports-education/singapore-sports-hub-library
Opening hours:Mon-Fri 10am-8pm; Sat & Sun 10am-9pm
Central Public Library
This is the home for the world’s first green library for children My Tree House, this library boasts a large collection of fiction titles and also besides basic facilities like self-check borrowing sites, a 24-hour book drop service, multimedia stations, online catalogs and photocopying machines.
Address:100 Victoria Street
Singapore
188064
Contact:
www.nlb.gov.sg
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Opening hours:Daily 10am-9pm
Bishan Public Library
This distinctive four-story public library with a basement and roof terrace is flanked by stained glass panels resembling light from a tropical tree canopy.
Address:5 Bishan Pl, #01-01
Singapore
579841
Opening hours:Mon-Sat 10am-9pm