本文是根據一份針對全省鄉鎮圖書館建築環境所做的調查資料中，有關兒童閱覽 室的部份整理而成。其目的在了解政府推行「文化建設運動」 (民 74-80 年 ) 之後，鄉鎮 圖書館中兒童閱覽室的現況和發展情形，並探究它們的共同問題及相關的影響因素。研究工 作是向全省 217 所鄉鎮圖書館的主管進行問卷的普查工作，並輔以一些實地訪察。 研究結 果發現在鄉鎮圖書館中未設置兒童閱覽室的主要原因依序是「空間不足」、「經費不足」和 「缺少人手」。而兒童閱覽室現存的問題則依序是「缺少人手」、「空間太小」和「缺少書 籍」。圖書館的區位環境影響到兒童室的發展、班訪活動及幼童的使用性。兒童在室內的閱 讀行為 (方式 ) 受到家長陪伴性和室內地坪材料的影響。 兒童閱覽室在規劃設計上的未盡 理想，則可深究到在輔導興建的政策之下，未能提供基本的規劃和實施準則，以致在實質環 境的發展上造成一些缺失。瞭解了這些的問題或可有助於擬定未來的輔助和改善計劃。

　　　　　This artical is a part of the report in a state-wide survey of physical environments in rural libraries. The purposes of the research are to understand the condition and problems of physical environments of children's room in public rural libraries when the policy of subsidy to built rural library which had been accomplished two years later, and to find the reason why some of them did not set children's room within the library.The survey was conducted mainly by mailed questionnaire which was sent to the librarians of the total 217 rural libraries in Taiwan.In the findings, the main reasons they did not set children's room within the library were suffering the problems for lack of space, budget and manpower. Interestingly, the problems occured in most existing children's room were similar in the shortage of manpower and space which seems more seriously than before.Besides, it is also found that the frequency of class-visit to children's room was not directly to the relationship of the distance and location between the library and primary school nearby. The children's reading behavior there were significantly influenced by the condition of paving materials (carpeting).The lack of guidelines for librarians and designers to programming building facilities is the main reason why so many libraries can not offer good physical environments for their younger patrons. much in common with the seven-point advantages of film viewing in the English classroom as espoused by most EFL theorists.