The two maps illustrate how the ground floor of a library had developed between 2001 and 2009.
Overall, it can be seen that while the floor’s overall size had not changed, there were new categories’ stocks, such as kitchen, economics.
To begin with, in 2001, four categories of texts were located on the ground floor, namely the self-help section to the southwest, the history section to the nortwest, the fiction section to the north, and newspapers and magazines to the east, across from the history shelf. Meanwhile, there were eight tables around the center of the floor. To the south of the floor was the entrance and librarian’s desk and stairs were in the southeast.
By 2009, while the entrance, librarian’s desk and stairs remained unchanged, however, every other space had been altered. The fiction and history sections had been reduced in size and relocated closer to the entrance, on the left side of the librarian’s desk. Four long tables had replaced the eight tables in the center of the 2001’s plan. The former history shelves now used for law, economics and kitchen books.