<p>Call me old-fashioned, but I thought you were supposed to be quiet in the library. Often, I will come to the library hoping to study or read, but then some people just start yapping and start to distract me. Can't they go somewhere else. I am not ranting against group studying or socializing, but do they have to come into the library, a place that should be quiet? Who else feels the same way?</p>
<p>Find a room in the library to hide in? Go to an unoccupyed floor?</p>
<p>It happens :/</p>
<p>I find that in some of the university libraries I go to, the main floor is usually the loudest. I prefer going to the back of the room where they have the tables made for studying or go upstairs/downstairs – away from the entrance.</p>
<p>The first two floors of my library are noisy but the other floors are supposed to be quiet. There are also study rooms that are good at blocking out noise.</p>
<p>It’s kind of weird but people really do like to just hang out and “study” with their friends at the library, they often don’t do anything but by putting a bunch of books around themselves and being in the library they feel like they’re being productive. It was never really my cup of tea, I just do my work at home. But yeah, there should be a silent section or some private study areas?</p>
<p>What do the librarians do about it?</p>
<p>Some people “hang out” at the library and others collaborate in a group; yeah they could definitely use a group private room, but those aren’t always available. At least at my school, the main undergraduate library has a loud first floor, a semi-loud second floor (computers), and a deathly quiet third floor. You can’t hear the first floor that much from the third floor, and there is an open area in the middle of the building.</p>
<p>We also have other libraries and I find that those are definitely not as loud as our undergraduate one.</p>
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I had a part-time job in the library as an undergraduate. I asked library patrons to quiet down if they were being inappropriately loud or if someone complained. I did not usually interfere in group study sessions because those were the most popular use of the big tables in the front of the library (despite being officially designated “quiet”). We also had single-person desks in the back; these areas were enforced to be quiet at all times.</p>
<p>Yeah, I mean the library probably isn’t supposed to be a 100% quiet place all the time, there should be talking sections and quiet sections. This allows people to have study groups and stuff (or, you know, just hang around the library with their friends). I find that the quiet sections tend to be fairly quiet though…my best advice if that’s not the case at your school is to find a more studious library, probably one with less undergraduates.</p>
<p>there are quiet section in the library</p>