Program(Vol.35 No.3)

Serving the Public: A White Paper on the Operations of the NCL The NCL recently released a white paper chronicling the library's more than 70-year history of transformation and achievements and providing an outline of its operations and prospects today. Below is a summary of this report. The National Central Library (NCL) was established in Nanjing, China in 1933, and later relocated to Taiwan in 1949. It moved to its current location on Jhongshan South Road in Taipei in 1986. According to the Organizational Law of the NCL, promulgated in 1996, the main functions of the NCL are to serve as a repository of national publications for public access, to facilitate research, promote international publication exchange, and support research development.