The Evaluation of the Possibility of Offering the Vocational Senior High School Library for Community Use

Chen, Hsiang-YunDirector of Library, Yuan-Lin Agriculture and

Industrial Vocational Senior High School

Opening school libraries of vocational senior high

school to community people.

School libraries

Public libraries

Specialized libraries

Role of school libraries of vocational senior high school

For community populaceFor school

Gain more social resources (ie. money, manpower)

Sustain the existence of the school

Attract more students to enroll in the school

Find needed information

More specialized books available

Extended service through cooperative relations with universities, high schools and government research facilities.

What can be gained by opening

Implementing the Plan 1 Marketing

2 Electronic library

3 Community classes on library use

4 Information services

5 Kind and professional service

6 Fee service

7 Community database

8 Community feedback

The implementing points of opening

Security and theft prevention

Establish a library foundation

Establish an organization like

“Friend of the Library”

Ask for volunteers

Research about the library opening of Yuan-Lin Agriculture and Industrial Vocational Senior High School

Located in Chang-Hua County, which is famous for agricultureMany agriculture departmentsMore agriculture books than the public libraryMany students' parents are engaged in work about agriculture.

Yuan-Lin Agriculture and Industrial Vocational Senior

High School

More than 1000 people go to the school to take a walk everyday

Community members take part in our faculty & staff reading club

ID trade system for campus visitors

The results of a questionnaire about the school library opening to community members

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Merits derived from opening

Plays the roles of school library, public library and specialized library

Keeps good relations with the community

Promotes the reputation of the school

Merits derived from opening

Creates an up-and-up opportunity for the library Solves the problem of the library with insufficient manpower

Reduces costsCreates an opportunity for participation by the community

Farm Families in Chang-Hua County

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Total Families Farm Families

（ End of 2003） 335,796

92,660

Percentage of Farm Families: 27.6﹪

Rice & vegetablesRice

Vegetables

Fruit

Fruits & Flowers

Flowers

Before

Yuan-Lin Agriculture and Industrial Vocational Senior High School circa 1945

The students are in the agricultural class.

Plants & Greenhouses

Animals

Specialized Books

Community people like to come to the school, even the birds.

I like it here.

Many elementary school students visit the school.

The school is very beautiful.

You are welcome to come to our school anytime!

The reading club

He is 74 years old.