This study intends to provide guidance for library design and assessment by eliciting the emotional vocabulary related to academic library space. In order to accomplish the goal of this study, 12 major emotional vocabularies related to academic library space were derived through 5 stages of extraction and refinement processes. Literature search and analysis of preceding research, focus group interview and survey of academic librarians and users of the academic library, evaluation of similarity through KJ Method, etc., selected 12 adjectives of emotional vocabulary as follows: diverse, satisfactory, necessary, full, clean, stable, appropriate, harmonious, open, warm, natural, and excellent.