【SDG 4】24HR Smart Library
2019-10-09
The building of the New Taipei City Library's main building looks like a stack of books, combining tradition and digital. It is a diamond-level green energy library that breathes and breaks the traditional thinking, with "24-7" (twenty-four-seven) service throughout the year, and it’s the first full-time library provides 24-hour service. It serves as new cultural landmark of New Taipei City, and injects larger innovation and vitality into the reading service.
To promote international reading and exchanging, on October 21st, 2015, New Taipei City Library and the San Francisco Public Library officially signed a sisterhood to allow the citizens can study internationally and have the opportunity to recognize different cultures and enhance cultural exchanges between cities. The new headquarters of the New City Library opened in 2015, and till end of 2018, with total of 568,392 volumes (pieces) and 6.61 million people attracted to the library and the number of circulation books reaches 3.53 million. The total number of applicants reached 280,517, with monthly 150,229 people usage. New Taipei City Library is listed as the New Taipei City Library Branch, with Book Reading Room, Smart Library as its characters.
Till end of 2018, there were 106 bases established (including the library, branch, reading room and self-service lending station), which is the largest public library in Taiwan. Collections had accumulated 7.13 million copies, and the cumulative total of readers' licenses issued by New Taipei City Library was 2.10 million. In 2018, the number of visitors to the city was 20.03 million and borrowings was 3.97 million, and the number of borrowed books was 10.55 million. The total number of books borrowed was 7.92 million.
Competent Authority:Department of Culture, New Taipei City Government
To promote international reading and exchanging, on October 21st, 2015, New Taipei City Library and the San Francisco Public Library officially signed a sisterhood to allow the citizens can study internationally and have the opportunity to recognize different cultures and enhance cultural exchanges between cities. The new headquarters of the New City Library opened in 2015, and till end of 2018, with total of 568,392 volumes (pieces) and 6.61 million people attracted to the library and the number of circulation books reaches 3.53 million. The total number of applicants reached 280,517, with monthly 150,229 people usage. New Taipei City Library is listed as the New Taipei City Library Branch, with Book Reading Room, Smart Library as its characters.
Till end of 2018, there were 106 bases established (including the library, branch, reading room and self-service lending station), which is the largest public library in Taiwan. Collections had accumulated 7.13 million copies, and the cumulative total of readers' licenses issued by New Taipei City Library was 2.10 million. In 2018, the number of visitors to the city was 20.03 million and borrowings was 3.97 million, and the number of borrowed books was 10.55 million. The total number of books borrowed was 7.92 million.
Competent Authority:Department of Culture, New Taipei City Government
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