National Taiwan Sport University-Library

When the College Preparatory Office was established in September 1986. Library was a unit of the Office of Academic Affairs, located in the gymnasium. Then, it became an independent administrative unit and moved to the basement of the Teaching Building in September 1989. It covered an area of 1202 square meters, including 160 seats and offered the reference, circulation, information retrieval, periodicals, books, microfiche data, and audio-visual media services. Under both of the support of the Ministry of Education and the long-term development plan of university, we launched a project to build a new library in August 2009. The library was moved to the new building in April 12, 2013 and had a glorious official opening in June 15, 2013. The new library is going to be a silver rated green building certificating the spirit of energy saving to reduce maintenance costs, extending the campus landscape, protecting the ecological environment to achieve the goal of environmental sustainability. The building spans 5 floors and 9,647 square meters. Library space mainly on the second floor to the fourth floor can accommodate 400 readers and at least 400 thousand collections. The new library is not only for the research purpose but a leisure and social place to meet the needs of faculty and students to enhance the whole power of the campus.