Driven by the world trend of fostering learner autonomy for modern education, many universities in Taiwan are experimenting with self-directed learning through a self-access learning center. To reflect the trend, National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology (NKFUST) set up its Multimedia English Learning Center in 2003. The center's mandate is to provide a self-access learning program and create a facilitating environment so students have the opportunities to access a rich collection of English learning resources and learn to manage their own learning beyond the classroom settings. As the center has now been operating for 5 years, we conducted a program evaluation to investigate students' attitudes and experiences with self-directed learning in the center. Two hundred and seventeen students from NKFUST were recruited to respond to the questionnaires designed for this study. Major findings revealed that while most students consider autonomy to be an important ability to develop, about half of them reported that to train self-directed learning skills in school is a difficult task. Implications for EFL learning are also discussed.