Estimating Space Needs for Media Services

This paper explores possibilities for remedying the perceived lack of methods for predicting the amount of floor area lively to be required for media services in four-year college and university libraries. spatial allocations made to such activities were found to vary widely among thirty recently constructed academic libraries. However when the thirty were categorized into one of three groups based upon the specific activities that each was intended to accommodate, some homogeneity began to emerge in the spaces assigned. THis result suggests that where such categoriztion is possible, rough preliminary estimats of the amount of floor area heeded for media can be projected as a ration of the space neded for other library purposes