Snail Culture mobile library

At the entrance of Ciyou Temple sits a lorry painted with brightly colored snail murals; this is Songshan Community College’s multicultural mobile mini-library, which together with its eye-catching snail murals, has toured every nook and cranny of the area.

Reading is considered to be the soul of education and inextricably linked with lifelong learning. What's more, the competitiveness of a city has a lot to do with the public’s level of knowledge; therefore, Songshan Community College feels the long-term promotion of “reading” is of paramount importance. Songshan Community College utilizes all kinds of festivals to quietly go about promoting reading habits in the community. Through the mobile library and Songshan branch of Taipei Public Library, books are being made available to develop better reading habits in people, especially children. It hopes that through such reading activities, social trends can be reversed and a culture of reading reestablished in Taiwan.

以下為中文對照

在慈祐宮的正門口有一輛色彩鮮豔的彩繪車，這台是松山社區大學的行動車，一輛以牽著蝸牛去散步的迷你圖書館，曾經巡迴各地，是一部多元文化的行動彩屋車。

閱讀是教育的靈魂，跟終身學習是連在一塊密不可分。一個城市的競爭力與市民的知識水準有很大的關係，因此松山社大長期推廣"閱讀"是有其必要性的。松山社大運用各種節慶活動默默地持續推廣社區的閱讀風氣，結合行動圖書館及市立圖書館松山區分館之藏書，讓市民尤其是兒童，隨手養成閱讀的好習慣，希望透過這「閱讀．悅讀」的活動，能重新建立起 一個充滿書香的社會文化。

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