Post-Occupancy Evaluating Space Utilization of Elementary School Libraries

Abstract

The elementary school libraries have the most appropriate reading environments for pupils and teachers. They are the primary users in elementary school libraries. For library management, it is much important to investigate the library space usage from users’ point of views. Adopting the post occupancy evaluation in this research, we record and analyze users’ activities in libraries by observation, interviews and painting. We clearly disclose what activities users do, what space usage experience users have and what roles elementary school libraries act. The research results give critical references for elementary school library management in space utilization and maintenance.