Library reading promotion teachers strive to develop a reading environment at school to create a reading space with human touch
To establish an engaging reading atmosphere at school, the K-12 Education Administration, Ministry of Education, launched the “library reading promotion teacher” program in the school year of 2009 and has since implemented it on a school year basis. Under this program, full-time schoolteachers need to receive library and information science and reading education and training to serve as library reading promotion teachers and integrate their schools’ reading resources. In the school year of 2021, the K-12 Education Administration assisted elementary schools in appointing 377 full-time teachers as library reading facilitating teachers and junior high schools in appointing 203 full-time teachers and continued to hold beginner and advanced workshops during the winter and summer vacations to help library teachers to hone their abilities.