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A Study of the Changes in University Library Space and their Assessment Strategies

  • Journal of the Korean Society for Information Management
  • Abbr : JKOSIM
  • 2014, 31(4), pp.229~248
  • DOI : 10.3743/KOSIM.2014.31.4.229
  • Publisher : 한국정보관리학회
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Library and Information Science
  • Received : November 20, 2014
  • Accepted : December 22, 2014
  • Published : December 30, 2014

Yunkeum Chang 1

1숙명여자대학교

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ABSTRACT

University libraries have been attempting to reorganize their space through new building construction and remodeling to cope with the rapid changes in information and communication technologies and university environment. These changes seem to reflect the need for the shift of the university library functions toward the facilitator role of enabling continuous learning and research through space reorganization beyond the traditional supporter role of preserving and supplying library materials and providing learning space and services to university members. Despite all these changes of university library space functions, however, their assessment has been still limited to the library users’ satisfaction and usage changes before and after library building renovation or new construction, calling for the need to develop proper measurement tools for evaluating the library functions as learning commons that reflect university vision and goals. Therefore, this study intends to analyze the trend of space reorganization practices in university libraries and the studies of evaluating its effect, in order to develop tools to evaluate the effectiveness of space reorganization and to provide basic data for future space reorganization and assessment strategies.

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