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LIBRARY
By Kevin Tang
Campus Reporter
The National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) Linkou Campus celebrated the opening of its new library this morning, bringing an end to five months of renovation work, which cost NT$15 million (US$450,000).
President Gou Yih-shun (郭義雄), along with main campus librarian Chen Chiao-chen (陳昭珍) and other guests, cut the red ribbons before approximately 100 Linkou students and teachers, who came to visit their new library in spite of a cold weather.
"With this new library, we will not have to go all the way to the main campus if we need to check out books,” said Kathy Chen (陳懷地), a freshman from the Department of East Asian Culture and Development.
Linkou librarian Rosemary Tsai (蔡金燕) recognized project designers Mark Casting Partnership Architects & Planners’ (印記聯合建築師事務所) creativity in terms of their work, such as the inclusion of discussion rooms, media lounges and a “leisure reading room” containing several series of comic books.
"What we had in mind was to make this library a place for everyone to relax, study, and socialize at the same time,” said Peter Lee (李磊哲), director for the Mark Casting Partnership Architects & Planners.
Lee said that among the NT$ 15,000,000 for the construction of the building, NT$7 million was spent on air conditioners, which were inexistent in the building before.
"Our architects had to do the most with limited resources,” Lee said. “And I believe they have achieved pretty satisfying results.”
After almost half a year of renovations, the Linkou Campus Library is ready to house its staff of eight full-time emplyees, 20 part-time employees, and a total of 100,000 archives at the disposition of all Linkou users.
