Founded in July 1982, the mission of theTaipei National University of Arts Library is to acquire and maintain the resources in the field of arts and humanities. Our collections, different from other general universities, include many rare and special classics, and items that are hard to acquire. The most important one,清蒙古車王府藏曲本 published by Beijing Classics Press (北京古籍出版社), is a rare treasure of traditional Chinese opera, considering that there are only 15 copies in the world. Yungang Grottoes (雲岡石窟), which was published by Kyoto University in 1951, is one of the most important work concerning the archeology research of the historic monument. Among the over one thousand volumes of arts and humanities books donated by China’s Hebei Education Press in 2004,梅蘭芳藏戲曲史料圖畫集,the Gold Prize winner of Best Designed Book at the Leipzig International Book Fair in 2003, is considered one of the most beautiful book in the world . These special collections have attracted many teachers and students from other universities.
Our resources include more than 30 electronic databases, covering subject areas in arts and humanities. The OCLC netLibrary e-book, which is also adopted by Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, and National Taiwan University among others, was introduced into the Library in 2004. In 2005, the Library added the famous Chinese e-book“Superstar Digital Library”(超星數字圖書館).
The Library has a remarkable record in executing various projects sponsored by the Ministry of Education, National Center for Traditional Art, and Council for Hakka Affairs, Executive Yuan. The results of these projects have been integrated into our resources and collections.
In addition to general services, such as circulation, photocopying, reference and information searching, and course-related reservation, the Library provides educational activities, including“Library Tour”for freshmen, instructions for database uses, and research method workshops. Interlibrary loan is offered through our cooperation with libraries of many institutions, including National Taiwan University, National Chengchi University, National Yang Ming University, National Taiwan University of the Arts, Fu Ssu-Nien Library, Academia Sinica, Institute of Ethnology Library, Academia Sinica, Performing Arts Library of National Theater & National Concert Hall, and Fu Jen Catholic University.
For these years, the Library has endeavored to support our users' teaching and learning. The extended services include Current Contents Service for faculty, help for faculty webpage, online book recommendation, forthcoming and new arrived book service and retracing classification numbers of AV resources. In addition, the Library shows motion pictures every week and held variable topic book exhibitions. In order to keeps our users updated about the latest news of the library, we have issued TNUA Library E-News every month since 2003. |
Book |
Volume 218319 |
ebook |
Volume 63,013 |
Recording(Includes CD, LP) |
Piece 16,803 |
VCD,DVD,CD-ROM |
Piece 5,478 |
Video Tape |
Case 7,555 |
Audiotape |
Item 1,901 |
Slide |
Piece 36,301 |
Reproduction |
Item 615 |
Micro Fiche |
Item 25,149 |
Poster, Picture |
Piece 4,648 |
Disk |
Piece 45 |
Bounded Periodical |
Volume 35,648 |
Total |
415,475 |
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