Program(Vol.35 No.1)

Love and Learn about Your Hometown! Public Libraries Promote Reading by Lin Ya-hui, NCL Training and Counseling Dept. Under commission of the Ministry of Education, the NCL, Taiwan Branch of the NCL, National Taichung Library, Taipei Municipal Library, and Kaohsiung Municipal Library have been jointly sponsoring the 'Love and Learn About Your Hometown ' reading activities since 2001 to promote national interest in reading. The reading activities, which have been held by various cultural bureaus (centers) and urban/rural township libraries across Taiwan, have the following main objectives: (1) To encourage people to take pride in being knowledgeable about their hometown (2) To generate popular interest in exploring the origins and history of their hometown