Students should be quiet in the computer room.
Library staff tell them to be quiet but when they have gone the noise goes up
Thank you for taking the time to write to us. We appreciate the opportunity to clarify what the position is. Oxford House LRC has a quiet study area at the top of the library and consideration will be given to putting some PCs there. PCs do create noise so that move may well be counter productive. Everywhere else is open access and available for students to study in the way they think fit. Group work is a recognised part of the University's curriculum so students "chatting" is a very legitimate practice.
The staff are all too aware of conflicting student needs and try to maintain a reasonable noise level through out the library. They can’t station themselves in
the computer room all the time. They do walk through regularly and monitor the noise and
if necessary the students are asked to be quieter.
It is down to
the students to monitor and behave appropriately.
Please remember that what one person thinks is quiet another person will find unacceptably noisy. It also has to be remembered
that often this week’s worker is last week’s (or next) talker.
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