Challenges and Strategies for Non-Metropolitan School Library in Digital Era

Development of Digital Resources and Information Literacy

Abstract

Our school is situated in a non-metropolitan city in central Taiwan, with a thousand students in total. Most of the students are from less privileged backgrounds. Facing a limited budget and shortage of manpower, the school library still strives to provide useful services and activities for its users, school staff and students, so that they can benefit from the abundant digital resources and various forms of access to knowledge in the 21st century. Through the services which we provide, we hope to develop their information literacy and work efficiency, thereby increasing their competitiveness in the digital era. To achieve these goals, we have to enrich the electronic resources and develop a truly digital library.