Abstract
The challenge faced by librarians today is "to maintain or cut costs, while, at the same time, increasing both the range and quality of services and programs." This assignment looks at library design, mainly including issues like new technologies, process layout, process type and job design and describing the different steps that the librarian must keep in mind when selecting, ordering books and putting them on the shelves. To illustrate this, I will apply the theory to the actual example of the library "Louis Aragon" in Calais, France. In a first part, I will show how I organized my work, and explain all the steps carried out through a Gantt chart. I will then analyze the planning of my project and evaluate to what extent was accurate. In a second part, I will study the library's design process and will map the process of the procurement for a book for a library, from its selection to its return when lending out. In a third part, I will conduct an analysis of the library, and finally, I will reflect on my essay and try to enlarge on it.
