Library

Directives for the Management of the Learning Commons

To foster a learning environment that encourages proactive learning and creativity, the Library’s Learning Commons provides a multi-functional learning space for faculty, staff, and students to engage in self-regulated learning, schoolwork discussion and consultation, academic counseling, and other activities.

Library Divisions

The Library consists of six divisions:

Acquisitions and Cataloging Division

Collection Management and Circulation Services Division

Reference Services Division

Digital Resources Division

Information System Division

University Archives Division

Digital Maker Studio

The NCHU Library Digital Maker Studio provides an environment that fosters innovation, proactive learning, self-exploration, and creative thinking in all subject areas. It provides access to several modern digital technologies, including 3D scanners, LCD & FDM 3D printers, heat press machines, laser cutters, and specialty software to help students turn creative ideas into reality, hone their problem-solving skills, and practice what they learn in class through hands-on experience.

Textbook Service

Textbook Service allows the NCHU faculty to submit textbook requests to the Library. It aims to work with instructors to make assigned textbooks available to students. Patrons can refer to the textbook lists through the Library’s website as well. To ensure that course resources are as accessible as possible, the designated textbooks can only be checked out for a short loan period. Print books can be borrowed for 14 days and multimedia items offer a 5-day loan. Renewals are not permitted.

Turnitin Originality Check System

Turnitin contains more than 99 billion webpages, 1.8 billion student papers, and 89 million scholarly articles.

Features:

*Compare faculty and student works, reports, and assignments to existing pieces of writing in its database.

*Produce a similarity report with a similarity score percentage.

* Help authors to verify the originality and quality of their writing before official publication.

* Review whether any citations are missing.

This section includes:

Graduate student school-leaving procedure

Account application

User manual and handbook

FAQs

Point of contact by college

Course Reserves

Professors may reserve reference materials for their courses. These may include books, periodicals, multimedia materials, journal articles, electronic resources, or self-made materials.Students can use the WebPAC’s “Course Reserves” function to look up and read materials for the current semester.To access course reserve materials, please present your student ID at the 1F Reference Information Desk or the 3F Multimedia Center and provide the name of the course and instructor.Please follow the usage guidelines so that more students are able to utilize course reserve materials.

Resources: The LibGuides Platform

To fully utilize the Library’s collections, we employ the LibGuides system to create catalogues tailored to individual departments and graduate institutes so as to meet their different teaching and research needs, develop and customize collection utilization guides, and facilitate timely access to resources by faculty members and students as they work on their academic writings and research projects.

NCHU Library—Courses and Resources

Eager to learn more about the resources and services available at the NCHU Library? Looking to improve your research skills? If so, you may want to explore the following options:

– Take a self-learning course online

– Sign up for a mini-instruction course

– Sign up for the library instruction courses

– Faculty can request Library Instruction for their classes