Library Facility Layout Design for Digital Native Generation

Digital native generation grows up with
information technology attached to their daily life. This
advantage changes their way to find information, only with
one click they have all the answers in their gadget. This
situation effect library that used to be the source of
information, numbers of library visit has been reduced
significantly in the last century. Therefore library needs
basic changes to accommodate digital native generation.
Library needs to facilitate their need by repositioning itself
as a community hub, a place to meet, interact, learn and
collaborate.
Anish I and Arish Ibrahim (2014), propose to use
Systematic Layout Planning (SLP) to design library facility
layout. The purpose is to maximize the satisfaction of
employee, management, and library users. This paper gives
the framework for systematic layout planning but has not
applied it using computer simulation tool such as CRAFT.
Research is conducted to four universities owned
libraries in Surabaya, Indonesia. Two from state universities
and another two from private universities. A heuristic
improvement algorithm CRAFT (Computerised Relative
Allocation of Facilities Technique) will be applied to relayout
library facilities. Adjustment to each facility will also
be done and as the result, new library facility layout will be
more suitable to meet digital native generation needs. The
implication of this adjustment is additional investment in
new facilities and repositioning current layout.