Quiet please! You’re in the library
Dear Editor,
During orientation, I was given the impression that the GC&SU Library was a wonderful place to research, study and work on class papers.
As I strolled through the stacks, I marveled at the abundance of resource materials, the computers, study rooms, and tables, and especially the crystalline silence. I knew this library would become my favorite spot on campus.
Alas, it was not to be.
As the semester progressed and the assignments became tougher, I found myself having to seek out a place to work in cafes downtown, in the Modern Foreign Language lab, even in the computer labs below the library proper.
I have been forced to these extremes by the students who seem to think that the second floor of the library — the area around the computers — is the ideal place to socialize. The noise level in this area, which is the only place in the library where someone can type papers, has become unbearable; it fluctuates from a steady drone to the loud bluster of a school cafeteria. It seems the library staff does not know what to do about it; my complaints are met with sympathy and a frustrated shrug. I understand that people in close proximity to one another will talk; after all, humans are social creatures. But a library is a place for reading, study, research and writing. As such, it is NOT a place for cell phones, socializing, catching up on last week’s football game, or any conversation louder than a whisper.
It is beyond absurd that students who need to work and study in the library, where the resources they need are at their fingertips, should be evicted by those who obviously are not using the library to its proper end.
Please, fellow students, have some regard for each other!
Sincerely,
Joshua Lavender
English
Junior
Posted by Colonnade Archives
on Dec 1 2006. Filed under Opinion.
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