The maps illustrate the transformation of the library’s ground floor between 2001 and 2009. Overall, while the library preserved most of its original features, it expanded its offerings to include a wider range of books and services.
In 2001, the library had a limited selection of books. The entrance was located at the bottom of the map, featuring a librarian’s desk with stairs positioned to the right. Behind the desk was the self-help section, with the history section adjacent to it. Single-seated tables occupied the central area of the floor, beside which was the newspapers and periodicals section. The fiction section was situated at the top of the map, next to the history section.
By 2009, the library ground floor had changed significantly. Although the entrance area remained the same, the left wing was completely revamped to include new sections for kitchen, economics, and law, alongside the existing fiction, self-help, and history sections. The central area also saw major alterations: single-seated tables were replaced with long rectangular tables, and the newspapers and periodicals section was replaced by films and DVDs, with computers situated nearby. Where the fiction section was in 2001, there was now a children’s book section, accompanied by a dedicated children’s area.