<p>OK, so I'm not too certain this is in the correct category...
I'm in high school still, but I wanted some information about college. So here goes...</p>
<p>I like libraries that are actually quiet, and my high school's library decidedly isn't. I don't want to repeat the experience in college. I went to UCSD for a college visit, and I was amazed at how quiet the top level of the Ted Geisel library was, and the medical library, too. It would be excellent for studying, even if it might get a bit antisocial at times...</p>
<p>So I was wondering, what other colleges have very quiet libraries (aka no more than whispering)? </p>
<p>Colleges in my range include Vanderbilt ("party" school), Wesleyan, Rice, Emory, Tufts, and UMiami. And, like UCSD but probably not UCLA or UCB. </p>
<p>I guess it's a bit too early for me, since I'm gonna be a junior, and my super intense schedule may kill my GPA, but that's not the poin.</p>
<p>Usually schools have a couple of different libraries with slightly different rules on noise for various areas. I know my current school has five or six libraries, and there’s always at least one that’s fairly empty and you can study alone in peace.</p>
<p>Each school is different, but at ours, the main library (Olin) is already fairly quiet, and it gets quieter the higher up (or down) you go from the main floor. Top floor is usually dead silent.</p>
<p>If you have one, I’d imagine the law library would be extremely quiet also. Or any specialized discipline library.</p>
<p>My school’s main library is seven levels and the further down you go, the quieter it gets. The bottom three floors are dead silent and cell phones don’t work down there. The top two are quiet-ish, but there’s a lot of noise because there’s a cafe available.</p>
<p>Every school is different, but I found no shortage of quiet places to study in school.</p>
<p>My school has 27 libraries, each with different rules (of course I’ve never been to most of them). Like someone said earlier, the ones that are domain-specific (law, bio-med, etc) will probably be quiter because the general population of students doesn’t usually go there.</p>
<p>In one of our main libraries, there’s a floor that’s popular, yet so strictly quiet that you’re not even allowed to use a laptop because the typing is too loud. I was studying in there one time and someone “shhhh’ed” me because I as allegedly flippin the pages too loudly.</p>
<p>Some libraries have a designated “quiet floor,” and there may also be small conference type rooms off to the side that you can use if no one has reserved them.</p>
<p>This is below the range of colleges you’re looking for, but my school (Appalachian State) has a quiet floor in their library, where no talking, music, or anything else that makes a distracting amount of noise is allowed. I’ve heard of the same thing, either as floors or quiet rooms, at other colleges. </p>
<p>Georgia Tech and some other schools have started an experiment with what are called “Walden Zones,” where absolutely no electronic communication devices are allowed, which includes computers, cell phones, MP3 players, etc… It’s supposed to be a completely distraction-free space for reading and studying.</p>
<p>At Sonoma, there are three floors. On the first floor, you can talk and work on group projects and the noise isn’t really regulated. You can’t scream or blast music, but you get the idea. The second floor you can talk quietly but it needs to be kept to a minimum. The third floor if you keep sneezing people glare at you. It needs to be kept quiet.</p>
<p>At my school, we have several different libraries. My favorite library for freshman year was the life sciences library. Not a lot of my friends knew about it, and it was pretty close to my dorm. The first floor of it was for group work and the top two were for quiet study. Also, we have an underground library that gets quieter the lower you go.</p>
<p>Depends on the school. USD has a nice quiet Harry Potter library, especially during finals. Honestly it’s like dead shot quiet. Also, most high school libraries aren’t quiet. They are more like a hang out place especially when it’s raining outside xD</p>
<p>Tufts has two libraries that people actually go to (as well as a couple more that people don’t go to). Tisch, the main one, generally always has people in it, so it’s not the quietest, but Ginn (the IR grad school library) and the Music library are always dead silent. I imagine a lot of places are like that–the smaller, specialized libraries are going to be a quiet place where only a few people study.</p>
<p>You could just get some quality headphones. They cancel sound and no one will try to talk to you because they’ll think you’re listening to something.</p>
<p>^ Buying noise cancelling earphones is one of the best investments you could ever make in college. You could use them in the library, or wear them when you are sleeping; god-forbid you discover that your roomate’s snoring wakes the dead. As for waking up, you can connect the earphones to your ipod (assuming you have one) so you can hear the alarm go off.</p>
<p>My son’s university has a large research library and an undergrad “reader’s library.” It is easy to find a quiet place deep in the stacks of the research library. In the undergrad library, the floor that is at the main entrance level is noisy and sociable. The further you go on floors from that entrance level, the quieter it gets.</p>