The mission of university libraries have been taking to support or reinforce academic researches and teaching, however the newly established exhibition space for the arts exhibitions are one of the services which is increased recently. For the needs of adapting to the external environment, the visual exhibitions have been transformed into the digital ones. The purpose of the study is to examine the role and function of the exhibitions held in the national university libraries in Taiwan. The research centers on the various conditions in the environments of the arts exhibitions that held in the national university libraries in recent. This study contains three major parts: the first part discusses the experiences from museums of holding exhibitions and the theoretical frame about the ¡§university library exhibitions¡¨. The second part is the comparison of the different organizations which hold exhibitions, such as museums, public libraries, and arts centers, in addition to the integration of three exhibition models by university libraries. The third part analyzes the common elements of library exhibitions and the types of exhibitions by applying the management SWOT approach. The findings of this study indicate that the ¡§university library exhibitions¡¨ possess the same functional roles as the traditional museums in the aspects of education, culture, researches and entertainment. Different types of exhibitions reveal these functions by different standards. The study also discovered that the superiority of the ¡§university library exhibitions,¡¨ was mostly in the aspects of education, culture, and researches. As far as the aspect of entertainment, though been admitted as one function, is not particularly addressed. In the future, some efforts might be added to university library exhibitions, such as the playing of a public role, the development of the audience and readers, also the tendency of being a cultural industry. The study concludes with the following suggestions: preparing proper library exhibition policies, expanding the function of ¡§exhibition¡¨ to the level of performance, promoting the inter-library exhibitions and exhibition loans, transforming the charge-free exhibitions into a cultural business, re-utilizing the space in libraries, considering the benefit of the corporation among different departments in the campus, extending the sensation of aesthetics into communities and developing the library audience based the idea of life-long continuing education.

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