Fifth Week: 7 – 14 Jun 2008

SUZANNE ENRIGHT. “Post Occupancy Evaluation of UK Library Building Projects: Some Examples of Current Activity”

LIBER QUARTERLY . Vol 12 (2002), No 1, pages 1-116 . ISSN 1435-5205

My Comment: This paper explain history of Post-Occupancy Evaluation in the UK and Use the method academics and publicity library. Page 37 give a few criteria for academic library space. Application “Post-Occupancy Evaluation” defined in page 41. I awarded UK libraries have several center for assessment building designed, but I don’t know wich organization attention and survey design any type libraries building in Iran. I need study in area, I have exactly information about supply architects design libraries building.      

BEVERLY P. LYNCH , WENXIANG YANG “Evaluation of Public Libraries: The 2001 IFLA Standards and the 2003 Standardsfor Provincial Libraries in China”. Libri, 2004, vol. 54, pp. 179–189 ISSN 0024-2667

My Comment: libraries must be evaluated our service, but without instrument standard criteria enable, IFLA first standard for public libraries published in 1973 that attention to: buildings, budgets, collections and staff & administrative. I remember SBMU central libraries compile policy for our works, but I think they didn’t aware IFLA university libraries standard. Definition evolution geve in the page 181.