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Dear Friends,

Please share with me your valuable suggestions that we  should consider while designing a new college library building. 

With thanks & Regards,

Jesbira Rasheed

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refer  kerala agricultural university library building plan...

 pls give a right link. There is no any plan for designing for  new college library

Hai

I Consider this as a big problem among our Library staff and faculty, I mean the lack of clear understanding about the specifications for a Library building. There are actually 118 hits at the time of my reply but with 2 replies without touching the points.

Actually there are around 12 to 15 standards related to library in the collection of Indian Standards. In which IS 1553, I think the number is correct, is for the design part of Libraries. All the others related to lighting, spacing, furniture steel or wood ...etc.

IS 1553 clearly specifies about what to check and what should be there ...in various types of libraries. Unlike most of the European countries we (mostly) are not specific or perfectionist's in our work and buildings design (some times matters in service sector) that is visible in our Library Science curriculum. See in our field it is very important to have good library building to serve the increasing expectations and demands of our users and technology. On the basis of that we can increase the ambiance and also conceptualize and start new services by considering the nature of subjects and users we are dealing with. Even after all this our curriculum is merely touching on the topic, and the after effect is we are getting a  common building designed and developed with the ideas of management or the architect. Sometimes we are unable to give them a proper input about our own library in a meaningful way, that really touches somewhere in our inner feelings why ? Is it because I am not competent, up to date or because of the lack of my observation in and around ? 

When I started reading this standard I like this and also felt that why I was so late to this? But at the same time I felt the need for it's updation, because it got updated in last decade. Now I think we should have a healthy conversation on this and its updation.

Since it is (IS 1553) a copyrighted material and I am not sure about the license terms of this site, am not sharing it here. But it is available to read and download from the internet for free, please check it.

Thank you

Subeesh A C

Pune

Can you please send the link to my e-mail jesbirarasheed@hotmail.com

thank you for all

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