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The recent dissemination of new public university campuses in Brazil has allowed knowledge to be taken to more remote areas of the country, outside the traditional locations of capitals. Allied to the new technologies of precast modular systems of civil engineering, this process has made possible the rapid construction of the different types of buildings that are part of the university centers, which includes the library space. An environment designed for the development of study and research activities, such as a university library, which deviates from the recommendations for environmental and ergonomic comfort standards, may be unable to provide well-being to the individual, discouraging their permanence and compromising the performance of activities indicated for that space. Within this context, the current research rested the focus on the analysis of a newly built library of a public university located in the interior of northeastern Brazil. For procedural guidance, the Ergonomic Methodology for the Built Environment (MEAC), proposed by Villarouco (2007), was used. The investigation pointed out several inconsistencies in terms of layout, environmental comfort and space organization, which made it possible to develop a series of ergonomic recommendations directed to the library.