One of the founders, GIO head Shaw Yu-ming relates a dream that formed during his college days when he first started using the information at the Nanhai Road American Cultural Center, that some day the ROC too could erect an overseas cultural center, one with a full range of functions and on a scale even larger than the American Cultural Center in Taipei.
創辦人之一的邵玉銘局長表示，從大學開始，他每到南海路美國文化中心利用其館藏資料時，就有個夢想：希望有朝一日，國內也有能力成立一個類似、甚且規模更大、功能更齊全的海外文化中心。