Towards a Better Interior Design for the Academic Library at College of Education—King Faisal University

摘要

Academic libraries include college and university libraries. Interior design is an importantway to bring about the required change in transforming academic libraries from a repository of booksinto places for research and communication. While interior design plays a major role in providing aninnovative functional design in academic libraries within universities, the problem of the study liesin the importance of academic libraries and their main role in university education institutions inencouraging and supporting scientific research among students and faculty members. According tothe role of interior design in designing academic libraries, the researcher finds that there are problemswith interior design in the academic library at the College of Education. It needs to be re-designed toimprove functionality and aesthetics and enhance the internal space for users to achieve effectiveuse of the internal library space. The study aims to create a better design of interior environments inacademic libraries in order to feature creativity and innovation. The research method is descriptive–analytical to describe and analyze the current interior design of the academic library at the College ofEducation at King Faisal University and collect real information about the library and the problemsof interior design. Then, it was presented through the opinion poll tool to the beneficiaries to knowtheir opinions about the current design of the library and to benefit from them in the design proposalof the academic library according to the correct design considerations. Then, the opinion poll toolwas displayed again according to the design proposal to know the views of the beneficiaries again tocontribute to providing an appropriate research environment for students and faculty members.