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 Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 11:12 am
The following is waste of 10 minutes on my part and on yours, should you choose to spend your life in this fashion. Read on if you must.
OK, the closest I've ever come to having a religion is in books. I love books and have ever since my mom read to me and soon learned to read by myself soon thereafter. I used to read myself to sleep. I used to check out 12 books at a time from the library and read them all within a week. Libaries for me are like churches are for other people.
I love the quiet, the feeling of so much knowledge packed so tightly together. I love just seeing the books all lined up on the shelf, the organization of it. When I was younger, I would appreciate the fact that people would come to the library for the quiet and the contemplation.
Here they came: the libary killers.
Public computers (which I am on currently, ironically enough) and coffee stands.
Just before our former library was closed to move to the bigger, better, super expensive new building (which I have yet to visit sadly), I raged at how loud and social the library became. People at the computers would be having loud conversations, talk on their cell phones and the whole atmosphere of the place changed. No one cared that it was still a place for QUIET reading and concentration anymore and I found myself longing for the past. I couldn't just sit in one of the chairs and have a little read IN THE LIBRARY. It was such a disruptive atmosphere that I had to avoid the place entirely.
At my university library and also the new public library, now coffee is sold. Granted, college students NEED coffee, especially close to places where they study. It's become my habit to grab a cup when I walk in, go down the stairs and study. However, it still pains me to think that sometime and in times past, some idiot will spill his drink all over one of those sacred books. I cringe even tearing up a piece of notebook paper in the library, which feels somehow like waving a hamburger at a cow. Anyway, the thought of some innocent book's destruction of a result of my Gilmore Girls/senioritis induced caffeine habit very disturbing. It also is weird to see all the signs that used to say "No Food, No Drink" now just covered over to say "No Food" just plain odd.
I want my libraries back to how they used to be!!
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Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 10:15 pm
Th ecoffee shop in my college library always bothered me, because the idea of having, or actually, encouraging drinking in a library seems like the most idiotic idea ever. I loved finding the floors that no-one ever went to, so that I could browse isles of books, without having to run into anybody, especially someone who was in the library because they HAD to do research for some paper. I just liked going to the library to look at the way the books were bound, and the amazing variety of subjects they contained. It really is like magic, to know that so much knowledge lays at your fingertips.
Now, unlike a lot of book lovers, I enjoy it when people write in books, especially terrible books. As long as it's insightful, funny, or useful. Profanity and pictures that have nothing to do with the book itself really bother me, but I like reading sarcasm, corrections, and other things. In fact, when I come across a book that has numerous grammar errors, I will fix them. I can't stand them to remain incorrect, because they'll mean something completely different, be complete gibberish, or give people who are already poor at grammar a bad example. Spelling mistakes don't bother me nearly as much as grammar does, in printed materials. Online, I know that it's easy to make mistakes, and I make all kinds of typos. However, if one is publishing a book, one hopes that the editor is being paid to do the job correctly.
I'll admit to having eaten in the school library. There are no signs saying not to, and there is a way to get to the study rooms without going through the sections full of books. I used to eat at my computer all the time, recovering internet junky that I am. sweatdrop
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Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 3:25 pm
Well my library put many extra signs out so that we won't have food in here. The other day a guy actually had a bowl of cereal at the table next to me. Milk, spoon and loud scraping sounds too.
Weird. rolleyes
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Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 2:17 pm
NiennaSayyadina Well my library put many extra signs out so that we won't have food in here. The other day a guy actually had a bowl of cereal at the table next to me. Milk, spoon and loud scraping sounds too. Weird. rolleyes Okay, that's going too far. Milk in a library? Waterbottles with nozzles I understand, and perhaps drinks in containers with lids and straws, but a bowl of cereal seems to be asking for disaster. Milk smells horrid when it gets into things. And noise? I hate hearing people eating. Even when I'm eating meals with them. I just can't stand it.
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Daelon Knight Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 7:56 pm
.......food in the library,,,,,,hmmmmm
well, there's food for thought......
and if someone actually spilled something gunky and it rots,,,,will maybe someone actually find a "book worm"?
and what harm could "one bad apple" actually cause??????
now pancake syrup could do some serious damage in there
and you people no longer have to wonder about where Nienna gets ALL of her wierdness from,,,,,,,,,,hee hee hee rolleyes rolleyes rolleyes
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Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 8:42 pm
Totally with you on loving books. And yeah, I so miss real libraries. There are two seperate library systems here with tons of branches, but they all are overrun with computers and as such have a dwindling inventory of decent books. Sadly, I get more peace and quiet at the Border's bookstore (which isn't that much).
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Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 2:20 am
Ah, I can remember those days well. Granted, I was just old enough to drive myself to the library, but I would stay for hours enjoying the atmosphere. My current library has a computer section as well. Sadly, it seems my library is infected with the same disease as yours: Cell phones... three words: STFU I'M READING!!!!!!The computer section is far enough away that I don't usually hear many people, but I don't stay nearly as long as I used to. Now, Barnes and Nobles is a place of quiet contemplation, and they even put the coffee drinkers in there own area with those lovely cushiony chairs all over the store. God I love that place... Must...Read...NOW! cool
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Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 11:08 am
I completely agree! Now, I can't even stand walking into a library - especially the one at my high school. It's so awful! Now, I have to actually buy my books, and take them home to read them in some peace. -.-
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Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 10:30 am
My school library is still strict with the no food rules. And the public library that I go to is the same. There is a little lobby area in the public library though, where there is a waterfountain and some chairs. Its right next to the childrens section, so I think it doubles as a snack area. I like the idea of being comfortable in the library, but if it includes food, then it should be kept away from the books.
I think that public computers are really useful, but they get dreadfully annoying if the users dont follow the rules and dont put the headphones into the jack, or to turn the sound down.
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