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The roles of public Library have been changed to meet the user's variety needs and social requests along with economic growing. Also the space scale(establishment) of public library has been continuously increased to achieve these various needs and requests. This study presents an investigation on the space size of public libraries in Young-ju city including facilities. Three public libraries in Young-ju city, provincial library, detached library, municipal library, were investigated in the current study, and compared with public libraries in other cities. The obtained results are as follow; 1) The public library space in Young-ju city is relatively smaller than other cities, but they have enough site area to expand their space, 2) Total Service personnel per library is better, but the unit public library space (per person) is less than it of compared cities, 3) The average number of Service personnel per seat in Young is small than the numbers of Kyungsang pook do and nation.