The Library of STUST won the first "Short Film Promotion Award" of Taiwan E-Book Supply Cooperative (TEBSCo), which fully demonstrated the library's outstanding performance in the promotion of e-books. The purpose of the establishment of the Taiwan Electronic Book Supply Cooperative (TEBSCo) is to gather purchasing power through alliance cooperation, strive for preferential prices, and reduce marketing costs. TEBSCo also provides library promotion every year to help teachers and students make good use of electronic resources and collections. Concerning the application of activity funds, the cooperative encourages the alliance libraries to organize the promotion of electronic collection resources. As for the year of 2021, the cooperative held the first competition for "Short Film Promotion Award."

[Ming-Tsai Lai, Vice President of STUST, was delivering a speech at the event "When an E-book Meets the Nostalgic Movie Theater."]

The library of STUST has been actively promoting the use and borrowing of e-books in the library. Not only does it pass TEBSCo's review every year, it also obtains funding subsidies for campus e-book utilization education courses, and organizes the "E-Book Action Borrowing and Reading Fun Series," "When an E-book meet Popcorn Cinema," and other events. This year, the promotion process of "When an E-book Meets the Nostalgic Movie Theater" was shot and converted into a video, edited as a promotional short film to participate in the election campaign, and recognized by the award.

[Curator Zhi-Jing Yang of STUST Library was delivering a speech at the event "When an E-book Meets the Nostalgic Movie Theater."]

Since STUST Library started its e-book promotion business in 2010, it has been holding a number of activities every year, such as "The King of E-book Borrowers at STUST Is You," "Reading in the Cloud Generation Is Fun / EBooks can be read at any time," "Slide into Library / Cloud Reading Fun," etc. In addition, the e-book ranking list is conducted every month to introduce books and platform usage methods. The number of e-books borrowed has increased almost 10 times, from 90,000 books at the beginning to 800,000 books in total.

[STUST Library won the first "Short Film Promotion Award" of Taiwan Electronic Book Supply Cooperative (TEBSCo)."]

As Curator Zhi-Jing Yang stated, the promotion of e-book reading can increase teachers’ and students' understanding of the advantages of using e-books, develop their habit of reading e-books, strengthen practical teaching research, and enhance the ability of teachers and students to apply e-books in their studies. Teachers and students can use e-books through learning. Mobile vehicles can use e-books to enhance students’ digital reading ability.

As Vice President Ming-Tsai Lai of STUST pointed out, the library’s e-book promotion activities can increase everyone’s knowledge and give students the opportunity to watch movies and learn how to use e-resources. It’s so great that he hopes it will let everyone know how to use information.

President Deng-Maw Lu of STUST expressed his gratitude to the library for its long-term efforts in e-book resources, allowing teachers and students to use the purchased digital resources in a borderless environment, without being affected by physical books. He hopes that teachers and students in the school will make more use of online resources, actively learn knowledge, and jointly create a campus environment that keeps pace with the times.