NCL Publications(Vol.51 No.2)

Starting in 2011, National Central Library has published a survey report called Reading Atmosphere in Taiwan each year, under the guidance of the Ministry of Education. This year (2020), this has continued by using 2019 service data and resource use behavior from the two national libraries and from twenty-two county and city libraries to understand the reading ability, habits, and interests of the Taiwan public. In an effort to actively support libraries and publishers in Taiwan and to keep abreast of reading needs by patrons, patron records of borrowing books were analyzed to show the popular books this last year, thus providing libraries and publishers with information on reading tastes. This data can be used in promoting reading, in acquisitions, and for publishers to use in determining the direction of future publications.