{"id":29664,"date":"2025-09-18T21:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T21:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/29664\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T21:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T21:53:10","slug":"forum-kudos-to-nlb-for-pre-loved-books-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/29664\/","title":{"rendered":"Forum: Kudos to NLB for pre-loved books giveaway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">I would like to give accolades to the National Library Board for its recent pre-loved books giveaway (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/largest-number-of-60000-pre-loved-books-up-for-adoption-in-10th-iteration-of-nlb-giveaway?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular inline\" data-testid=\"paragraph-test-id\">NLB to offer 60,000 pre-loved books in largest giveaway<\/p>\n<p><\/a>, Sept 10).<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Visitors were given only 10 minutes to grab their favourite books. We had to queue for an hour and be admitted in batches to avoid bottlenecks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Despite the overwhelming response, the library staff were polite and controlled the crowd seamlessly. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Visitors, too, were patient and queued in an orderly fashion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">I hope NLB will consider having the giveaway annually and hold it in other library branches. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Tan Keong Boon<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s LettersNational Library BoardLibraries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I would like to give accolades to the National Library Board for its recent pre-loved books giveaway (&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[288,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-29664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}