Prevailing factors of successful design in library spaces

The purpose of this thesis is to discuss and outline the functional suggestions on the important factors that need to be considered while designing interior libraries. These important factors can affect considerably to interior environment and designing of libraries. These important factors include lighting, color and materials. Each factors could change designing of interior library easily. In this thesis, all these factors are investigated in separate sections, and there are standards of interior libraries which are explained in each section. Moreover, the history of university library in Turkey is explained and the role of the libraries in society and history of library are investigated. Furthermore, there are different kind of libraries which are explained in separate parts. Consequently, a case studies have been studied under the headlines of this thesis, which are located in Çankaya University in Ankara. Keywords: Library, interior, design, environment.