A Study of the Integration of High School Library Specialities and Community Resources

Abstract

The interactive mechanisms of the senior and vocational high schools with one another as well as with the communities have been constructed recently in Taiwan. Every learning community as well as the high schools have worked together to advocate programs and activities such as online learning programs, backup programs for teacher resources, establishment of the instruction resource centers and seminars convened for teachers, etc. The cooperation and resource sharing between and among high schools can not only satisfy the requirements of education for the students within the communities, but also help achieve the goals of nature-oriented learning and development. In 2007, there are 45 learning communities in total, in which 484 high schools participate. The educational resources within each community support and meet the educational requirements of the local students so that the goal of constructing learning communities can be achieved. The construction of the cooperation mechanism to integrate resources among high schools will improve wide-scale educational quality and intensify the characteristic of each learning community.