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Academic Library Seating: A Survey of Usage, with Implications for Space Utilization.
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Organ, Michael; Jantti, Margie – Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 1997
To identify areas where seats could be removed to accommodate a growing collection, the University of Wollongong (New South Wales, Australia) library surveyed patron seating usage. The survey supported a 12% reduction in seating, which enabled the installation of additional shelving and a compactus to store 20,000 volumes while having a minimal…
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