Space Criteria: A Guide to the Guides
c. Staff Spaces
(7) Reading and Study Areas
(a) Description. Provide seating near fiction shelves
(1) Administrative Librarian's Office
and a reading area near the entrance with new acquis-
(a) Description. The administrative librarian is responsi-
tions, topical subjects, and paperbacks displayed nearby.
ble for the operation of the entire post library system,
Small seating groups for two to eight readers should be
which includes the main post library, branch libraries, the
located in the book stack and reference areas. Students
bookmobile, and all field library units. The administrative
may require study rooms for group work and spaces for
librarian's office must accommodate frequent meetings
individual study.
with library personnel and visitors.
(b) Space Allocation. See Table 7 - 62.
(b) Space Allocation. See Table 7 - 58.
(c) Relationships. Reading and study areas should be
(c) Relationships. Since the administrative librarian fre-
dispersed among the book stacks. These areas can
quently requires typing services, a clerk typist should be
help to define stacks devoted to specific aspects of the
adjacent. Access to technical services is required to
collection. Some study areas should be remote from
facilitate general supervision. If possible, visitors should
major circulation paths.
have direct access to this office without passing through
(8) Typing and Listening Booths
staff, reading, or stack areas.
(a) Description. Library patrons may require booths in
(2) Post (Supervisory) Librarian
order to use tape recorders, stereo equipment, or type-
(a) Description. The post librarian (responsible for the
writers. Equipment is either permanently furnished in
operation of the main post library) directs the operations
booths or borrowed from the control desk.
of the control desk, the reference and children's area,
(b) Space Allocation. See Table 7 - 58.
and frequently aids patrons in finding books and
(c) Relationships. Typing and listening booths should
materials.
be near the control area to facilitate checkout and super-
(b) Space Allocation. See Table 7 - 58.
vision of equipment and materials.
(c) Relationships. This office should be adjacent and
visually linked to the control desk.
Table 7 - 62 Space Allocation for Reading and Study Areas
Size (Gross SF) based on Military Strength
1,501-
4,001-
8,001-
12,001-
16,001-
20,001-
Sub-Space
2,000
6,000
12,000
16,000
20,000
26,000
Lounge Seating
620
760
1,445
1,520
1,725
2,410
Tables
430
630
1,035
1,265
1,435
2,010
Carrels
420
900
1,040
1,105
1,210
1,380
Total
1,470
2,290
3,520
3,890
4,370
5,800
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