Books and Journals
Our university library currently holds a total of 79,480 professional-related books, including 34,933 volumes on history and geography, 3,581 volumes on religion, and 40,966 volumes on related social sciences. Among these, 72,625 are in Chinese and 6,855 are in foreign languages. Each year, the school allocates funds to purchase additional books and journals related to history and geography.
Equipment
With funding from the Ministry of Education, the department has gradually purchased teaching-related equipment such as laptops and projectors (Table 1). Currently, there are 7-8 units, and most classrooms are equipped with electronic lecterns, sufficient to meet teaching needs. Usage details are shown in Table 2.
Specialized Classrooms
Located on the fourth floor of the Humanities Building, room J401. It contains approximately 442 volumes on history and 561 volumes on geography.
(2) Map Room (Humanities Building J502)
Established in 1987 when the Department of Social Education was founded, it primarily houses various types of maps of Taiwan. It currently holds a total of 4,315 maps, categorized by type, edition, and scale, stored in sixteen map cabinets (details in Table 3). Additionally, there are 97 wall maps available for teaching purposes, which include:
1. Maps of Taiwan:
- Basic photographic maps: 3,970 maps (3,932 at 1:5,000 scale and 38 at 1:10,000 scale).
- Topographic maps: 334 maps (245 at 1:25,000 scale and 89 at 1:50,000 scale).
- Other types of maps: 11 maps, including administrative division maps, natural disaster distribution maps, and irrigation district maps.
2. Wall maps: 97 maps, including 77 geography wall maps of various regions and 20 other wall maps.
(3) Cartography Room (Humanities Building J502)
Established in 1987 along with the Department of Social Education, it is equipped with three sets of drawing tables and chairs, and related tools such as globes, stratigraphic models, and rock samples, serving as resources for teaching and research.
(4) Indigenous Culture Research Room (J504)
Established in 2000 with special funds from the Ministry of Education, it houses research materials on indigenous cultures. It currently holds 275 books (refer to Table 4), serving as resources for teaching and research.
(5) Geographic Information Systems Classroom (Humanities Building J504-1)
Set up in June 2000 and gradually equipped with GIS facilities for students to use in quantitative analysis, cartography, and research. As of November 2006, the GIS classroom has 34 computers, ensuring each student has their own machine during classes. Additional equipment includes one A0 large format scanner and one color printer. The software acquired includes:
- 10 sets of MapInfo 6.0 (Chinese version)
- Unlimited educational licenses for MapInfo 8.0
- 20 sets of ArcView 8.2
- 20 sets of AutoCAD Map 6.0
Detailed list can be found in Appendix 4.
(6) Geomorphology and Meteorology Laboratory (Innovation Building B01-425)
Approved by the department's instrumentation committee in the first semester of the 2006 academic year as a priority for departmental funding. The planned procurement items include experiment and workbenches, equipment for terrain analysis and measurement, terrain material recognition, and soil property analysis.
In November 2006, with university funds, the procurement for the "Mobile Ground Meteorological Automatic Observation System" was completed, with installation and testing finalized by December 15. This system, a portable ground meteorological observation device, must be lightweight, durable, easy to assemble and disassemble, meeting the essential requirements for ground meteorological observation. It should be transportable for field observations, quickly set up on-site, and during non-field use, placed on an observation plot to automatically collect ground meteorological data. The system includes sensors, a data logger, and a portable stand. The sensors measure various meteorological elements such as temperature and humidity, wind speed and direction, air pressure, solar radiation, rainfall, net radiation, and soil temperature. The data logger digitizes, processes, and stores the collected data, which can be transmitted to the meteorological data receiving system in the observation room via wired or wireless connections. The data is stored in the logger's 1.7MB built-in flash memory, with expandable memory up to 200MB, and can be accessed for analysis and printing. The system also includes a carrying case for the stand and instruments, designed to be carried by a single person, thus requiring it to be lightweight, durable, and easy to transport.