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Current debates about building performance evaluation often emphasise the 'performance gap' between how buildings perform in practice and how performance was envisaged during the design stage. While such debates continue to be dominated by energy considerations, increasing attention is directed towards the subjective experiences of building users in terms of thermal comfort and wellbeing. The latter trends are undoubtedly to be welcomed, but buildings continue to be conceptualised as fixed physical objects rather than entities that are enacted in practice. With the aim of challenging current assumptions, research is described which sought to reclaim the concept of building appraisal as practised by the pioneering architectural practice DEGW. The concept of building appraisal differs from current notions of building performance evaluation in that the point of departure was not the supposedly fixed entity of the building, but the essential fluidity of the occupying organisation and their aspirations in terms of space. Empirical data is derived from archival sources and through extensive interaction with the DEGW diaspora, many of whom remain active at the leading edge of international practice. It is concluded that the continued fixation with the 'performance gap' reinforces long-since discredited assumptions of environmental determinism.

The physicality of a building, which culminates in the completion of a building project, leads to an illusion of the completion of the building itself. The exterior of a building may reinforce this belief in its static nature. Moving beyond the concept of buildings as fixed physical objects, this chapter will draw on a rich empirical study of the adaptations and refurbishments of a 50 year old library building at the Whiteknights Campus, University of Reading. Even many decades after the library building was built, certain facades have not changed (Image 2). An excerpt of an interview with a member of library staff, 4th February 2015:Jiva: … and again this summer we will be doing it all again, I suppose Me: To move ground floor books, I think? Jiva: Well, over the next two years it seems we are moving the whole library. Because I am not sure how they are going to achieve what they need to achieve without moving stock … so all the ceilings have to come down again.Me: There's a sticker in some of the books that says, 'Book presented on the completion of the Whiteknights Building Library in 1960s' (Image 1). This building never completes.[We laugh].

The awareness of legal issues related to libraries among library professionals in Gujarat is discussed in the current study. The research is based on an online survey of library professionals of Gujarat. The major findings of the survey reveal that there is an acute need to improve the awareness and knowledge about legal issues and legal provisions among LIS professionals in Gujarat. The results also show that educational background, experience, or designation have no correlation with level of awareness or knowledge about legal aspects among library professionals. This study provides indications to major legal issues that affect the work of library professionals and what resources may be needed to enhance the level of awareness and knowledge about legal aspects related to libraries.The current study is limited to the study of library professionals in Gujarat, India and has potential to be conducted on national scale to check the level of awareness and knowledge about legal issues and legal provisions and may also provide important indications to address the issue of training and education of library professionals.

Aim of this research is to find the answer that how could Dharma towards Nationalism becomes the most priority than the life, body and existence itself at the age of adolescent when today’s youth turn towards the materialistic life, facilities, money and luxury of the life?. It surely be thought, ideals , principles , qualities, religious belief works in the root of childhood given by the family,Values of religion, Tradition, Culture,. The extreme essential need behind it to be free , to be liberated and ‘Gulami se Azadi ’ plays the remarkable role in the root of existence certainly otherwise acceptance of ‘ Hang till Death’ couldn’t be possible with smiling face when one knows that there is no return back, once death. Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, Sukhdev, Khudiram Bose, Badal Gupta, Kartar Singh,Surya Sen, Sarbha,Dinesh Gupta, Hemu Kalani, Prfulla Chaki Basant Kumar Biswas, Kantilal Dutta, Pritilata Waddedar, Chandra Shekhar Azad, Jatindra Nath Das, Bhagvati Charan Vohra,Madan Lal Dingra,Pratap Singh Bharat, Durgawati Devi, Bhai Balmukund, Rajendra Lahiri, Ashfaqulla Khan, Vishnu Ganesh Pingle, Baikunth Shukla , Mangal Pande, Birsa Munda, Ram Prasad bismil,Veer Bhai Kotwal, Roshan Singh,Bagha Jatin, Surya Sen,Udham Singh, Batukeshwar Dutt and many more – these all have devoted their life behind the Independence. How much do we know about them? This research paper will make us remind that what the peaceful food we get along with calm sleep is the boon of someone who didn’t see the rising sun of Independence. The present research is the humble recollection of those whom we have never seen at least in newspaper even after the hundred years going to be covered after Independence in nearest future.