National Library of Public Information not only promotes reading and provides comprehensive digital information services but is also committed to implementing sustainable actions. To do our part for the global environment, we are cooperating with the Central Weather Administration, MOTC (CWA) and Communications, hoping to raise public awareness of the urgency of saving the environment and the need to take active action for a better home.
In the modern life of information popularization, the channels for the public to obtain information are quite diversified, and libraries, as a repository of knowledge, should not be lagging. It is one of the important tasks of modern libraries to exchange their professional expertise and reciprocate their resources through cross-domain cooperation, present more diversified services, and resources, and integrate reading with daily life, so that the public can further feel the reading experience different from the previous one.
"Xiao Shu” as an Ambassador for Sustainability
In light of the global rise in sustainability awareness and actions, National Library of Public Information (NLPI) Director Xiang-Ping Ma and the Director of the Central Weather Administration, MOTC (CWA), Jia Ping Cheng , signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on March 4, 2024, stating that they will integrate the resources of both parties to build up the public's awareness and literacy in sustainability and make joint efforts for the sake of the environmental sustainability. In addition, "Xiaoshu", the first generative AI virtual librarian created by NLPI, also participated in the signing ceremony for the first time out of the library. She also had a conversation with Wan Hua Wu, a meteorological anchor who is trusted by the public, and functioned as the best ambassador of communication of NLPI.
In the face of climate change, CWA plays a key role in providing input and support to the national response and is also an important source of weather information and knowledge for the public in their daily lives. In response to climate action and the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), NLPI uses reading to accompany the public to understand climate issues and actively shares with the public the library's green building, digital reading and the results of the SDGs, in the hope that, through the energy-saving and carbon reduction measures and the promotion of digital resources, it can do its small part to protect the global environment and encourage more people to participate in the realization of the sustainability goals. Through more cooperation in the future, the two organizations will work together to implement the sustainability goals, and to exert social influence to lead the public to support and participate in sustainability actions.
One plus one is more than two, and that is a win-win situation.
Jia Ping Cheng said that CWA will continue to promote various climate services based on science to help achieve the SDGs goals, including providing agricultural weather information services, establishing weather risk alerts with the Health Promotion Administration, MOHW, providing seamless weather forecasting services as a reference for water resource management, and providing appropriate weather information to promote the development of the green energy industry, etc. In addition, through NLPI digital knowledge management technology, the efficiency of knowledge search can be accelerated, sustainable issues can be automatically matched and refined, and public attention can be attracted through a variety of channels to accelerate the dissemination of sustainable knowledge at all levels, including the government, corporations, NGOs, academia, and the public.
Xiang Ping Ma also said that NLPI and CWA, through the exchange and sharing of their professional fields, and the integration and promotion of their rich resources, will plan and organize thematic exhibitions, lectures, forums, seminars, etc., so that the impact of one plus one is greater than two in terms of sustainable actions can be realized, and the win-win multiplier effect can be achieved, so as to promote sustainable reading experiences, and to realize the development goals of the SDGs in the future, so that we can accompany the public to learn about the issues of sustainable development through reading, and to jointly build a brighter future, and to create the superpowers of sustainability.