(23 Apr 2026) After years of starts and stops, the Taitung County Library yesterday officially opened, featuring a design inspired by mountain mist that the county government hopes will help it become an important Taitung landmark. The project reflected local residents’ strong emphasis on knowledge and learning, Taitung County Commissioner Yao Ching-ling (饒慶鈴) said at…
(16 Dec 2025) A new cultural space combining an art museum and a public library has just opened in Taiwan‘s second largest city. Taichung Green Museumbrary, which has been designed as ‘a library in a park and an art museum in a forest’, is found within the city’s 67-hectare Central Park. Yi-Hsin Lai, director…
(Nov 2025) High in the hills overlooking Taipei, in a nondescript office tucked within one of the many buildings at the National Chengchi University, sits an unassuming collection of a few hundred Vietnamese-language books. There’s no sign to announce it or posters to promote it. It’s not even a formal library—just a small collection. But…
(18 Jul 2025) Taichung is the second largest city in Taiwan. There, atop Taichung Central Park, SANAA is designing what the Tokyo office calls a “museumbrary” (museum + library). The Taichung Green Museumbrary brings two existing institutions—Taichung Public Library and Taichung Art Museum—under the same roof. Taichung Public Library has over 1 million paper and digital books in its collection. And…
(25 Jun 2025) The government has unveiled a NT$19.13 billion (US$647.84 million) subsidy package for universities this year, in response to growing concerns about the impact of population aging on the education sector. This year’s allocation is an increase of NT$568 million compared with the higher education subsidies last year. The current phase of…
(25 Mar 2025) Taiwanese universities this year canceled 86 programs, Ministry of Education data showed, with educators attributing the closures to the nation’s low birthrate as well as shifting trends. Fifty-three of the shuttered programs were part-time postgraduate degree programs, about 62 percent of the total, the most in the past five years, the data…
(5 Feb 2025) Libraries in Taiwan are now offering tens of thousands of books that have been banned in Hong Kong due to the government’s ongoing crackdown on politically sensitive content, according to a report by Radio Free Asia (RFA). Hong Kong’s bookstores were once famous for their wide range of books, including controversial and politically radical works. According…
(13 Dec 2024) An archive has been opened in Taiwan featuring Korean culture at a single venue. The National Library of Korea (NLK) on Dec. 12 said it opened the facility at Chinese Culture University in Taipei. As the first of its kind in the island country, the reference room is on the seventh floor…
(8 Oct 2024) Taiwan’s National Library of Public Information has deployed customized technology from EPC Solutions that tracks when copies of each of its 600 journals are removed from the shelf and read. The UHF RFID and AI based solution will enable the library to make strategic decisions related to which subscriptions to keep,…
(24 Sep 2024) A university library opened in 1985 has been named the winner of the inaugural Taiwan Architecture 25-Year-Old Award, which was established to show the public that old buildings can age well over time with the right care, according to Taiwan Architect Magazine. The Chang Ching Yu Memorial Library at Chung Yuan Christian…