Taipei Plans Self-service Library in Mass Transit Station
-- Library Journal, 3/23/2006
International libraries are innovating in bringing libraries to atypical locations. Last year, the Taipei Public Library in Taiwan opened a self-service branch in supermarket. Next month, it will open its second "self-service" branch—at a rapid transit station. The library, according to the Taipei Times, will house over 15,000 books, mainly geared toward the country's youth culture, including comic books, literature, detective and adventure stories, history books, science fiction and martial arts novels. The library will use RFID for checkout and be open between 6 a.m. and midnight daily.
