I have complained here before about behavior in libraries. So I sympathized with how difficult it must be to work in the British Library now, as described in this article.
--Curly
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4 comments:
I agree with your point, I really do- libraries are places to work, and you shouldn't do anything which disrupts others' work. However, I really did have to laugh:
'“There’s loads of people dressing like they’re in an episode of ‘Skins’ and high-fiving each other,” said Matt Taunton, a 28-year-old postdoctoral research assistant, referring to a television series about the wild and crazy lives of teenagers in Bristol.'
However frustrating the situation is, and I can see that it must be, it seems to be going a bit far to effectively suggest that every single undergraduate is effectively part of a homogenous mass, unaware or somehow incapable of considering the feelings and needs of other people working around them and, for some reason, inappropriately dressed, too!
Completely agree with your point, just not with that article, but then I'm obviously biased! :)
--Kirsty
Okay, point taken, Kirsty. So you young undergrads aren't all ignorant and annoying? That's news! ;-)
--Curly
the other day in the library i work at some man was sitting a one of the table playing a guitar. it was an electric one so he could turn down the volume but still what possesses a person to sit in a library an think hum maybe i play my guitar.
Wow, Teefus, that is beyond weird. I think some people must be disturbed mentally!
--Curly
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