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Introduction
The main mission of the
Library is to support the faculty’s and students’ needs in instruction
and learning. It provides a warm, friendly and humanistic environment,
and updated and abundant resources in order to fulfill its inevitable
role in the faculty’s and students’ teaching, researching and learning.
The Library is located in
the Library and Information Building, which is newly built in 2002. It
occupies the basement, and the first through the fifth floors of the
building, approximately 12,360 square feet. In this spacious library,
there are research rooms, discussion rooms, group audio-visual rooms,
information promotion room, children library, etc., and as many as 1200
reading seats.
Services
The
numbers of loaned volumes and loan periods are as
follows:
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Borrower Type |
Loaned Volumes |
Loan Periods (week) |
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Faculty |
20 |
4 |
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Graduate Students |
15 |
4 |
|
Students |
10 |
3 |
|
Alumnae |
3 |
2 |
Remarks:
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Loans may be renewed once unless
needed by another user.
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Fines for late returns: NT$ 2 per
volume per day.
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A
reservation can be made if the books needed are
currently borrowed by other users.
Newly-arrival books are placed for weekly display to
provide patrons with updated book information.
There are
research rooms, discussion rooms, and conference rooms
available for faculty’s and students’ research and study
needs.
In order
to help patrons use the library resources, library tours
are provided to introduce and explain the library
facilities and services by the library staff through a
field trip.
The
service provides information to patrons in person at the
Information Desk at the first floor. For example, we
provide guidance and assistance for how to use the
reference tools and database available.
The WebPAC
provides patrons with access to holdings by author,
title, subject, and keyword. Through WebPAC, patrons can
also renew, request, suggest and recommend what they
need. Moreover, individual library accounts for patrons
can be accessed on the Internet (http://webpac.lib.tut.edu.tw).
Various
databases can be searched through the library's
homepage. (http://www.lib.tut.edu.tw/link6_f.htm)
Patrons
can borrow books or copy materials from other libraries
through inter-library loan service.
Media
services include the followings:
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VCD,
DVD,
Video Cassette Tape service
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VOD
(Video
on Demand)
service
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CD,
Tape service
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Radio service
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Group video viewing service
The library shows a film every Wednesday and
Friday for teachers and students. Teachers
may also reserve the group auditorium for
instructional purposes.
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The
library is equipped with 9 copy machines operated by
copy cards for public use.
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