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Hullett Memorial Library
Raffles Institution
Raffles Institution

Raffles Institution
Mission
“…to guide all Rafflesians to be effective and responsible users of information
and creators of new knowledge.”

Raffles Institution
Welcome to HML

Raffles Institution
History
Resources,
Facilities & Services
Rules & Regulations
History of the Hullett Memorial Library, the
oldest library in Singapore.
OVERVIEW

Raffles Institution
HML named after R.W. Hullett
(1870-1906)
Renamed as HML in 1923 during the
centenary celebration of the founding of
Raffles Institution in 1823.
The idea of Dr Lim Boon Keng and Sir
Song Ong Siang.
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Sir Song Ong Siang Dr Lim Boon Keng
FOUNDERS
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Bras Basah School
HML was only a small room adjoining the principal office.
Collection : 1400
The library was renovated and upgraded after WWII.
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Officially reopened again on the 4th May 1950 with a
collection of about 4000 books.
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Simple and spartan reading room of yesteryears.
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Teenage Periodical Corner
Pupil librarians’ work room
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At Grange Road Campus
The move to Grange Road took place on the 3rd August 1975
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The Library occupied the top floor of the Science Lab
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The library loan counter at Grange Road
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The move to Bishan in 1990
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The Raffles chairs typically have a strong horizontal back rail, with horizontally oriented cross bars usually quite high above the back
of the sear. Most importantly, the broad rail usually projects beyond the sides of the seat, and takes a concave form to welcome the sitter's
back. Importantly too, the rear legs are swept sharply backwards.
It is clear that the Raffles chair is a later development; its curving, extended back and swept-back legs reflecting the explicit influence of
designs revived from ancient Greece.Outside of Java, the models most similar are American designs of 1815 and the heavier English-
Regency work of 1810 to 1820.
Raffles Chair
(English-Regency work of 1810 to 1820)
There is one item of furniture that sums up the impact of
the neoclassical more than any other: the Raffles Chair. Its
name is generally explained by the idea that its use was
popularized during Raffles' brief rule as Lieutenant-
Governor over Java, to 1816. So prevalent is the Raffles
chair, in surviving images and photographs of the second
half of the 19th century, (and in today's homes) that The
basic design of the Raffles chair is usually credited to the
brilliant English designer Thomas Sheraton who published
his most influential designs between 1794 and 1803. A
chair which has a similar profile to the Raffles chair does
appear on plate 33 of Sheraton's Drawing Book of 1794.
The basic shapes is of thin arms arching down, forming a
scroll that sits above a vase-shaped dowel. The line
continues down to the straight, tapering reeded front legs.
The shapes are heavily ornamented, but Sheraton wrote
"the mere outlines of any of htem will serve as patterns
either for painted or mahogany chairs, by leaving out the
ornaments for the mahogany."

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