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Pingtung s forest library closed for repair 6 months after reopening
02/05/2021 05:11 PM
Photo courtesy of Pingtung County Cultural Affairs Department
Taipei, Feb. 5 (CNA) The Pingtung County Library, which was reopened in August last year, was closed from Thursday for 12 days for general maintenance after becoming a popular attraction dubbed Taiwan s first forest library.
The five-story library, located in the old camphor tree-shrouded Qianxi Park in Pingtung City, has attracted more than 470,000 visitors since it was reopened on Aug. 28 after two years of renovation and extension, according to the county s Cultural Affairs Department.
The refurbished library has boosted the number of readers, with 5,013 people applying for library cards in the four months since the reopening, leaving several shelves empty during the first week of September.