Save Up to $50m a year
"New system saves National Library up to $50m a year. NLB would not have to hire extra staff to keep library queues below five minutes."
(The Business Times, 23 Aug 2000)

Save a million man-hours
"It is expected to save borrowers and library staff up to a million man-hours a year."
(Sunday Times, 22 Nov 1998)

"About 5 years ago, queuing times to return or borrow books ranged between 45mins and 1 1/2 hours. Now it takes less than 5 minutes."
-- Dr Christopher Chia Chief Executive, National Library Board
(The Straits Times, 25 Aug 2000)

Promote social well-being
"By making it easier for readers to return the books, more people could borrow them. This would in turn promote the reading habit".
- Dr Christopher Chia Chief Executive, National Library Board
(The Straits Times, 2 February, 1999)

"The future belongs to countries whose people make the productive use of information, knowledge and technology."
- PM Goh Chok Tong, Singapore

With EliMS, borrowing and returning books becomes a breeze
"You don't need to open the book and make sure its barcode is exactly in line with the scanner… open or closed, even upside down, the book's registered as borrowed no matter how you put it on the 'mousepad'".

'mousepad' - refers to the reader

"Before, a library employee would have to pick up the book from the chute and flash it with a scanner before it was registered as return. It used to take about 15min, during opening hours. Now, it's instant - around the clock."
(The New Paper, 21 Nov 1998)

Library of the future…and we are part of it!
"We are changing the concept of a library from being a repository of books to a learning centre, a place which helps people to access information world-wide using technology… The new Bukit Batok Community Library is an excellent example of what a Knowledge Economy and a learning nation might look like.
- DPM Lee Hsien Loong, Singapore
(In a speech delivered at the opening of the Bukit Batok Community Library on 31 Nov 1998)

Improving the efficiency of workers
"Libraries use scanners to sort out returned books, so that they can be shelved more quickly and so misplaced books can be tracked down more speedily.
(Sunday Times, 22 Nov 1998)