Conference Session 190

Making the case for change through evaluation: post-occupancy evaluation of library buildings

Library Buildings and Equipment

Congress track 4: Tools and techniques.

16 August 2012 08:30 - 10:30 | Room: Session Room 1 | SI

• Welcoming, flexible, and state-of-the-art: approaches to continuous facilities improvement
  CHARLES FORREST (Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA) and SHARON BOSTICK (University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, USA)
• When used, library buildings shows up, take profit of it!
  MERCÈ MILLÁN, ESTER OMELLA and ASSUN VILADRICH (Gerència de Serveis de Biblioteques, Diputació de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain)
• Working with focus groups as a Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE) to support a relaunch of the library building of the German National Library of Science and Technology/ University Library Hannover (TIB/UB)
  ANETTE FRANZKOWIAK (Technische Informationsbibliothek/ Universitätsbibliothek Hannover, Hannover, Germany)
• Review of Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE) in Libraries in Taiwan from the perspective of the architectural profession
  Translations: [Français]
  KOLI CHEN (Tungahi University, Taichung, Taiwan, China)