Record and preserve cultural heritage
NYCU treats intangible cultural heritage as a public mandate. Through the Library’s History Division and allied museum programs, the University documents, digitizes, and exhibits local traditions, languages, and community memory. Systematic collecting safeguards NYCU’s heritage and nearby knowledge ecosystems—especially in semiconductors and medicine—and returns them to the public through curated shows. Traditional arts are not merely praised, but also protected: the Library stewards artifacts from the Seden Society Puppetry Theater, applies new conservation technologies, and mounts retrospectives that sustain stories, craft methods, and performance practices. Community memory and industrial heritage receive equal rigor via the Hsinchu Living Museum’s work on the WWII-era Imperial Japanese Navy Sixth Fuel Factory, wartime industry, and military dependents’ settlements. Because exhibitions are free, preservation becomes a form of participation.
All evidence is publicly accessible online:
1.NYCU Campus History and Cultural Relics Collection Query System
https://nctuhistory.lib.nycu.edu.tw/index.aspx
2.NYCU Glove Puppetry Digital Museum
https://ct.gpdm.lib.nycu.edu.tw/
3.Puppet Drama Club of NYCU
https://www.facebook.com/nctupdcfans/?locale=zh_TW
4.NYCU Glove Puppetry Collection
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYuF9Mua4MQUAjS0LUO-pIg
