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Tendency of Spaces and Operation in Japanese Public Libraries From the Viewpoint of Citizens' Multipurpose Uses

Year: 2019

Type: article

Abstract: It can be found many public libraries in Japan have had the tendency of providing the services supporting citizen’s learning activity and a variety of events for the enhance of multimedia uses in addidtion to book rental service since 1990s. Therefore, the planning theory specified to book reading and rental of a public library is needed to revise, corresponding to those multipurpose uses of a public library. Then, in order to establish the public library’s planning theory meeting current needs, this study pays more attentions to the spaces and the operation arranged for citizen’s multipurpose use and the relationship of them, and aims to examine the current situation of space and operation of public libraries, based on the responses from the public libraries which have managed itself for citizen’s multipurpose us. To reach this study’s goal, the questionnaire research to the public libraries (924 libraries) located within 1 km distance from s station in Japan was implemented in 2016, and 550 responses (59.5 %) were collected. As a result of intensive analyses of the responses to the questionnaire, the followings were found.

Source: Journal of Architecture and Planning (Transactions of AIJ)

DOI: 10.3130/aija.84.1057

Authors: Daisuke FURUTA, Yuki KOJIMA, Hisashi KOMATSU

Institutions: KUME Sekkei (Japan), Nagoya University

Language: English

Topic: Library Science and Administration

Subfield: Library and Information Sciences

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Sustainable cities and communities

Open Access status: bronze

Funder: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science