Special Library Etiquette Edition
So ...
... it's okay to have loud conversations, yell on your cellphone, even use speakerphone when sitting at the computer terminals in the library.
...but, if you're using headphones and the sound bleeds out any, you're told you have to turn it down because it's disturbing others.
Personally, I think it should be the other way around. However, library standards differ from my own
... especially considering that, when it comes to loud talking, the staff themselves are often among the worst offenders. And when those in charge are among the offenders who can one turn to?
Perhaps the reason some people have the volume turned up on their headphones is to drown out all the loudmouths and cell phone shouters.
So ...
... it's okay to have loud conversations, yell on your cellphone, even use speakerphone when sitting at the computer terminals in the library.
...but, if you're using headphones and the sound bleeds out any, you're told you have to turn it down because it's disturbing others.
Personally, I think it should be the other way around. However, library standards differ from my own
... especially considering that, when it comes to loud talking, the staff themselves are often among the worst offenders. And when those in charge are among the offenders who can one turn to?
Perhaps the reason some people have the volume turned up on their headphones is to drown out all the loudmouths and cell phone shouters.
I've always found the loudest people in the library are the staff who never shut up. I'd much rather hear a little noise from a pair of headphones than a conversation being carried out on a mobile phone.
ReplyDeleteThe day of the quiet library is dead. Nowadays some of the staff should shush themselves.
ReplyDelete"You guys, quit shouting back and forth at each other! I'm trying to READ already!!!"
ReplyDeleteOf course considering libraries are so family-oriented and always filled with children it's logical that plebeians and middle-class types would routinely "make themselves at home" there (minus undressing or viewing internet porn of course).
Libraries are supposed to "serve the public", and guess who "the public" is? That's right---Jane and Joe Average, that's who
...entitlement complex, narcissism and all.