National Taiwan Library — Attraction in New Taipei

捌貳叄 heritage park embracing it is prolly the single best part. besides that, sucks.

thought a national public library would at least maintain certain standard qualities - apparently doesn't apply to this one here. so, the authority concern and the crews, be them paid or volunteered, ain't seem to give a damn, then.

well, speak of the volunteers, somehow met several sheer snobbish and harsh whenever the rules were considered slightly violated. the night watch was even insulting me by making up scenarios like snoozing inside only to nag relentlessly about my late left following the full-day study. I mean, what the heck, sir? lashing out at a youngster that actually worked hard? merely claimed how much a stubborn loser you had...

The collection is huge, you can easily sign-up with your EasyCard too, so you don't have to take care of one additional card.

The self-borrow machines (as well as the self-return ones) however are pretty useless, the machine barely can find the barcode (if it can at all), while the borrowed books still can trigger the RFID anti-theft gates, so you still have to go back to the manned counters. The library catalog is incredibly slow on certain computers even though it's using intranet only. The number of desks with AC plugs are relatively low, and careless people reading newspaper only still occupy them even though there are plenty of other desks too. Staff doesn't really speak English, but their...

One thing I would love to see improvement on is that many people would take up the space by leaving their backpack, personal stuff and leave the seat for hours. This is a problem that should be improved. Please please please tackle this social problem.

The facilities are okay. A bit outdated on some floors, some sections are designed a bit nicer.

Book recommendations/curations are amazing! Will be more than happy to see more diverse curations to feed all kinds of...