Karen Latimer, Medical and Healthcare Librarian, Queens University Belfast
presented at the Maynooth University Library and
IFLA Library Buildings and Equipment Section Seminar:
"Key issues for library space: international perspectives"
March 3, 2016
Maynooth University Library, Maynooth, Co Kildare, Ireland
https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/library/events/key-issues-library-space-international-perspectives-maynooth-university-and-ifla-library-buildings
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Meeting the brief: David Wilson
• Combine welcoming ambience with gravitas
• Specific requirement for postgraduate space
• Pleasure to be in for long periods
• Zoning: silent – social
• Vistas to nooks & crannies
• Encourage positive behaviours
• Coherent easy to use layout
• Maximum natural light
• Sustainable
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Outline
• Co-location
• Sustainability
• Consultation
• Refurbishment
• Collections to connections
• Learning spaces
• Postgraduate space
• Post-occupancy evaluation
• Art
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Post-occupancy evaluation
• Review buildings using IFLA POE
questionnaire
• Map user behaviour
• Surveys
• Focus groups (users and library staff)
• Check against brief – consultant?
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IFLA Post-occupancy
evaluation questionnaire
General Building Services Conclusion
Facts and
figures
Location
Accessibility
Sustainability
Safety and
Security
Flexibility
Entrance area
Materials
Flooring
Ceilings
Acoustics
Openings
Lighting
Furniture
Heating,
Ventilation
and Air-
conditioning
Installations fed
through a wiring
system
Data
Sanitary areas
Service Areas
Shelving
User areas
Children’s Area
Young Adults
Staff Areas
Automation
Maintenance
Three wishes
Anything that
should be
changed
Anything
particularly
successful
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POE challenges
• The time and the will – fear of failure
• Librarians like measuring – loans,
acquisitions, ILLs, members but …
• Now need to measure outcomes –
service quality, learning assessment,
ambience, user satisfaction
• Need to show better space enables
better learning, better experience
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Library Services & Research Support
Outline
• Co-location
• Sustainability
• Consultation
• Refurbishment
• Collections to connections
• Learning spaces
• Postgraduate space
• Post-occupancy evaluation
• Art
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What next? All buildings are predictions, all
predictions are wrong (Brand)
• Technology continues to impact on but not
eliminate library space
• Decline in physical resources
• Shared services
• Student population – changing profile CL
• Teaching to learning changes
• Blended learning – lab, lecture room, library
• Changes to staff spaces
• ?????????
Notas del editor
All photographs of Clapham Library are copyrighted to Gareth Gardner
University of Leicester Library
Architects: Associate Architects
Major extension and re-modelling