Sobre la organización de espacios en las Bibliotecas Públicas del Estado de España

This work studies organization of spaces in the Spanish Public Libraries, based on information supplied by the libraries themselves, in order to draw an overview of the situation and analyze the qualities they reflect regarding the different models of space organization. It starts from the elaboration of a checklist to facilitate the analysis, and a comparison of the information collected with that included in accepted organization models for public library spaces (IFLA Public Library Service Guidelines; Model Program for Public Libraries); and relevant studies of these Spanish libraries is done. The results refer to the defined spaces in the checklist, which resume the characteristic of the 53 libraries analyzed, also indicating the peculiarities presented in the different libraries as well as latest trends in relation to the organization and distribution of spaces.