Temasek Foundation-NUS Heritage Champions Programme marks a year of documenting lesser-known stories of Singapore’s past

“Aren’t libraries supposed to just shelve books and collect resources? Why run a youth heritage ambassador programme?” These are common questions that NUS University Librarian Associate Professor Natalie Pang, from the Department of Communications and New Media at the NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences , is used to fielding. To her, however, shelving books and collecting resources are merely functions of a library — not its fundamental purpose.