• 2013-04-29

Is reading equivalent to reading a book? Flooded with and immersed in today’s audio-visual materials, reading is no longer just to read a book. Reading is extended to “audio-visual materials”. Starting today until the 16th of July 2013, the National Central Library Arts and Audiovisual Center welcomes you to visit and explore a shortcut to reading; one no longer buries oneself in pile of books! The “Evolution in reading –Enjoying simultaneous viewing and listening” Exhibition will feed your eyes and ears with “audiovisuals materials” that can give you a brand new reading experience! “Evolution in reading –Enjoying simultaneous viewing and listening” exhibition will take you to an “audiovisual materials” trip traveling through the rich collection of NCL Arts and Audio Visuals Center 0 to 9 categories. You will be guided towards a new horizon, re-experiencing the rich and diverse audio visual materials passing through CD, DVD display areas, language learning zone, movies and documentary films special areas and many other novelties! Besides the exhibition on audio visual materials, there are displays on Digital Audio Visual Archive System as well as the e-newsletter of Arts and Audio Visual Center. A variety of audio visual storage media such as different sizes of video tapes, laser discs, videodiscs, DVD, vinyl records, cassette tapes, CD collected over the years are also exhibited. One can see the historical development of audio-visual media storage. Of particular interest is the “listening” corner where, surrounded by antique vinyl player and a portrait painted by Professor Chen Jing-Rong of Professor Robert Scholz (1902-1986), one can sit back comfortably in a sofa and quietly enjoy and appreciate the: listening” and “seeing” exhibition. The“NCL Digital Audio Visual Archive System” and “NCL Arts and Audiovisual Media Center E-Newsletter”are NCL’s “audio visual materials” services offer to readers worldwide which enable readers to calmly enjoy world affairs without being limited to time and space.