IASL2007

The 2007 IASL Conference

National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, 16-20 July 2007

Pre-Conference Tour and City Tour

1. Pre-Conference Tour

Welcome to Formosa, the beautiful island. For the weekend, July 14-15 (Sat-Sun), we would like you to enjoy some of the most fantastic nature sceneries and cultural heritages the island has to offer, to enrich your island memory and collections, even prior to the beginning of the conference.

We offer you two tour packages to choose from - one going east bound for Yi-Lan, while the other heading south bound for Taichung. Either is equally impeccable in their respective tourist attractions and would provide to be a tour of your lifetime.

The following brief descriptions are provided to help you make your selection of the two-day tour. Please feel free to ask questions. The total fee for either package is the same, at NT$10000 per person (all inclusive), with its breakdowns listed at the end of this information.

Tour Package I: Yilan, July 14-15 (Sat-Sun)
Yilan County, situated at the northeast part of the island, is richly blessed with diversified and colorful traditions. This tour will take you to the tourist sites described below, including history and culture museums. And our accommodation hotel is every ready to help you refresh and relax with their hot springs facilities.

DAY 1 itinerary
Taipei/Yilan BUS TOUR
Departure - Gold Ecological Park - Jiufen - Lunch - Jinche Orchid Garden - Hotel Royal Chiao Hsi

DAY 2 itinerary
Yilan/Taipie BUS TOUR
Hotel Royal Chiao Hsi - National Center for Traditonal Arts(NCTFA) - Lunch in NCTFA - Institute of Yi-lan County History - Back to Taipei

Tour Package II: Sun Moon Lake, July 14-15 (Sat-Sun)
Sun Moon Lake is the epitome of what Formosa literally means. With its lake and the surrounding mountains, you would be likely to lose your heart in the poetic legends of the aborigines who have indwelled there for generations. Come, the lake is so enchantingly inviting.

DAY 1 itinerary
Taipei/Sun Moon Lake BUS TOUR
Departure - Puli - Chung Tai Temple - Lunch - KongSing Paper Works - Teachers Hostel

DAY 2 itinerary
Sun Moon Lake/Taipei BUS TOUR
Hotel - Boat Trip Sun Moon Lake - The Formosan Aboriginal Culture Village - Back to Taipei

Total price for each tour: NT$10000 per person
Price includes:
Transportation Fee
Hotel Room Fee
5 meals (Day 1 breakfast and Day 2 dinner excluded)
Foreign Language Tour Guide Fee
Entrance Fees
Insurance Fees

You can register for the pre-conference tour on the conference registration form or on-line.
For more information, please contact: Ms. Nai-wei, Chen
Graduate Institute of Library and Information Studies, National Taiwan Normal University, 162, Sec. 1, Hoping East Road, Taipei, 10610, Taiwan R.O.C.
Phone: 886-2-2351-3968#15
Fax: 886-2-2351-8476

2. City Tour

City Tour Program

The city tour will be held in the afternoon on July 20, 2007. We will visit the three most representative tourist attractions of Taipei.

Eslite Xinyi Bookstore

Eslite Xinyi Bookstore
Asia biggest bookstore, the Eslite Xinyi Branch, opened its doors on December 16, 2005. After many favorable responses in the half-month since its opening, the landmark twenty-four-hour palace of books - the Eslite Xinyi Bookstore - officially opened soon after midnight on January 1, 2006.
The Eslite Xinyi store is 7000 pings, with 3000 given to books. The store contains Taiwan's largest selection of simplified Chinese books, Japanese books, and art books. The store carries over one million volumes, and is open around the clock.
Eslite is well-known for its devotion to creativity and culture. The blue lights outside the bookstore as symbolizing the sky, the green lights earth, the red lights peace and love, and the yellow lights treasure and happiness.
Construction can make a city big, but only culture can make a city great. Taipei needs more people willing to contribute to the city artistic life. In the midst of exploring commercialism the Eslite Bookstore will be an oasis of culture and humanities. Eslite has set up a special exhibition area for books on cinema and the city - volumes in which there is a low profit margin.

Taipei 101

Taipei 101
Taipei 101 was opened to the public on December 31, 2004. TAIPEI is mnemonic for Techology, Art, Innovation, People, Environment, and Identity. 101 represents the concept of stiving beyond perfection.
Taipei 101, whose pinnacle reached full height in October 9, 2003, is currently the official world's tallest building in the categories of highest structurally, highest roof, and highest occupied floow. The Sears Tower in Chicago holds the fourth category of overall height.
The multi-use structure will house retail facilities on Levels 1-4; a fitness center on Levels 5-6; offices on Levels 7-84; restaurants on Levels 86-88; observation decks on Levels 89,91 and 101; and a communication facilities on Levels 92-100.
There is a station for the Taipei Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) beneath the building awaiting the eventual construction of the Hsinyi line.
On December 15, 2004, Toshiba installed the world's two fastest elevators. With top speeds of 1010 m/min, observation deck visitors can whiz from Level B1 to 89 in 39 seconds.
A 900-ton tuned mass damper is installed on the 87th floor to counter earthquakes and typhoon. It will be available for public viewing from the restaurant levels and observation deck.

National Palace Museum

National Palace Museum
The National Palace Museum is built in traditional Chinese palace style with white walls and green-tiled roofs. The main building, with its five exhibition halls, resembles a plum blossom in shape and houses the world's largest and most precious 70,000 pieces collection of Chinese art stored here are famour ceramics, porcelain, calligraphy, paintings, ritual bronzes, jades, sculptures, brocade screens, embroidery, and other historical relics. The quality of its collection remains unparalleled anywhere throughout the world in the field of Chinese Art.
The Museum was first established in 1925 at Beijing and relocated at Taipei, Taiwan after WWII. Nowadays the Museum is one of the most important museums as well as research institutions throughout the world, and it is a significant historical spot which is worth a visit by foreign visitors.

You can register for the city tour on the conference registration form or on-line.
For more information, please contact: Ms. Nai-wei, Chen
Graduate Institute of Library and Information Studies, National Taiwan Normal University, 162, Sec. 1, Hoping East Road, Taipei, 10610, Taiwan R.O.C.
Phone: 886-2-2351-3968#15
Fax: 886-2-2351-8476

Last Updated 14 April 2007 (KSB)