Contains a selection of papers based on presentations made at the Bridging Worlds conference organised by the National Library of Singapore in October 2008. The Bridging Worlds conference was aimed at information/knowledge/culture professionals and educators, and according to its website (http://www.bridgingworlds.sg/) it focused "on how the information, knowledge and cultural institutions are responding to the social and information future while continuing to connect with their diverse communities in appropriate spaces, engaging with them to build the culture, information and knowledge dividend"