(1) Exchanged 31 volumes of books (30 titles) with the Vancouver Public Library, Canada. As the result of our efforts to seek book donations from overseas, a total of 581 volumes were received from both Western and Chinese donors, which substantially expanded our Western-language collection.
(2) The Taipei Public Library continued to exchange books with the North Lanarkshire Libraries, Britain: 30 volumes (30 titles).
(3) Continued to exchange books with Boston Public Library: 39 volumes (30 titles).
(4) Continued to keep in contact with the overseas public libraries that participated in the 2002 International Conference held to mark our 50th Anniversary, and placed them on our mailing list for our publications.
(1) Planned the Inter-Library Loan Service with the Shanghai Library.
(2) Established the "Highlights of Shanghai" and the "Highlights of Taipei" to promote mutual understanding between the two cities.
(3) Planned several activities to promote exchanges of books from and to our library. This year we donated 346 volumes of children's books and 27 of our publications (15 titles) to the Shanghai Library.
(4) Exchanged visits of staff with the Shanghai library, each for one month.
(5) Planned the Children's Encyclopedia Database to provide information services to cooperative libraries on request.
Shu-chuan Lin, Director of the Circulation and Preservation Section, and Yen-chin Chang, Director of the Wenshan Branch, attended the workshop on community library planning activities held by the Biblioteca Central de Macau. They reported on our planning activities for communities and exchanged our experiences and ideas with other participants.
Year 2003
