Post-occupancy evaluation of library buildings / Karen Latimer, Dorothea Sommer.

Architectural realisation of a building and its opening to the public with a range of services are central components of the building and design process of libraries. Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE) is the final step in this process. It provides a opportunity to assess whether the construction and design of the building has indeed met the library's and users' requirements and how effectively the building functions.

Includes bibliographical references.

About IFLA ; Introduction ; Approaches to Post-Occupancy Evaluation of Libraries ; 1 Welcoming, flexible, and state of the art. Approaches to Continuous Facility Management.

2 Working with focus groups as a part of a post-occupancy evaluation (POE) at the German National Library of Science and Technology / University Library Hannover (TIB/UB) 3 How to improve existing library buildings after evaluation ; Architects on Library POEs.

6 Post-occupancy evaluation: Fayetteville Public Library POE Case Studies: Different Time Frames ; 7 The Law Library of Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany revisited.

8 The "Berlin Brain". Evaluating an architectural masterpiece of 2005 based on a library concept from the last millennium 9 The McClay Library at Queen's University Belfast Evaluation five years on ; 10 A case study on a post-occupancy evaluation of the new Helsinki University Main Library.

English.

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