Are libraries no longer known as quiet places??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:90% of public library usage:

- bums
- unemployed losers for free movie rentals / computer games
- delinquent parents who use it as a free daycare for their bastard kids

Not in my experience and not in our community. Everyone uses the public library where they have a beautiful and separate wing for the children's library (which is not terribly quiet) with a closed play area and separate story time theater. Our public library also has upstairs community services like a passport office. Students, parents, retired people - everyone really uses our beautiful library. We are very, very fortunate.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I got politely shushed by a librarian for taking a call in the library. So I would guess it goes library by library. Obviously if you're there right when story time ends, it's not going to be quiet.

As you should have been.

Why did you feel the need to add your two cents? How sad that your self esteem is so low that you need to try to make people feel badly. I hope that during your lifetime of looking down your nose at others as if you could never possibly do anything wrong, you trip and fall in front of a large group of people you hoped to impress. Happy holidays!

because it was warranted. Looking forward to the holidays because we will be skiing Vail.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I got politely shushed by a librarian for taking a call in the library. So I would guess it goes library by library. Obviously if you're there right when story time ends, it's not going to be quiet.

As you should have been.

Why did you feel the need to add your two cents? How sad that your self esteem is so low that you need to try to make people feel badly. I hope that during your lifetime of looking down your nose at others as if you could never possibly do anything wrong, you trip and fall in front of a large group of people you hoped to impress. Happy holidays!

because it was warranted. Looking forward to the holidays because we will be skiing Vail.

What value does providing the information that you will be skiing in vail over the holidays add to the discussion of being quiet in a library? Please show me how it is relevant to the topic at hand.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I got politely shushed by a librarian for taking a call in the library. So I would guess it goes library by library. Obviously if you're there right when story time ends, it's not going to be quiet.

As you should have been.

Why did you feel the need to add your two cents? How sad that your self esteem is so low that you need to try to make people feel badly. I hope that during your lifetime of looking down your nose at others as if you could never possibly do anything wrong, you trip and fall in front of a large group of people you hoped to impress. Happy holidays!

because it was warranted. Looking forward to the holidays because we will be skiing Vail.

[Anonymous]

Public library during a work day is full of unemployed nuts. I don’t see the point in working / studying in one if you’re of reasonable means. Don’t you have $30 a month for WiFi at home? My own food, peace and quiet. Not worried about a smelly terminally unemployed weirdo sitting next to you!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I got politely shushed by a librarian for taking a call in the library. So I would guess it goes library by library. Obviously if you're there right when story time ends, it's not going to be quiet.

As you should have been.

Why did you feel the need to add your two cents? How sad that your self esteem is so low that you need to try to make people feel badly. I hope that during your lifetime of looking down your nose at others as if you could never possibly do anything wrong, you trip and fall in front of a large group of people you hoped to impress. Happy holidays!

because it was warranted. Looking forward to the holidays because we will be skiing Vail.

Weird brag. The snowfall is shitty. Most trails aren’t open. Have fun...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Public library during a work day is full of unemployed nuts. I don’t see the point in working / studying in one if you’re of reasonable means. Don’t you have $30 a month for WiFi at home? My own food, peace and quiet. Not worried about a smelly terminally unemployed weirdo sitting next to you!

Sometimes things go wrong with home internet? Or you don't care to sit in a Starbucks for a couple hours?

Our router died on us one time and I had a deadline for work that required me to be on the internet. I went to the library for a couple hours. Found the quiet room with the desks in the back.

A couple weeks ago, my child had a rehearsal a bit of a drive from home. I had some work to do again, and I needed an internet connection again. The library was close and it wasn't Starbucks.

Both of these were Fairfax county libraries. I was able to do what I needed there in relative quiet.

[Anonymous]

The library might have a quiet room. The central library in Arlington Co has one on the 2nd floor.

[Anonymous]

No

[Anonymous]

The one near us has zones. One is downstairs and normal conversation is allowed but not yelling. Upstairs is hush tones and then there is the quiet room. I think it has changed to acknowledge that a lot of the users are families with kids who are not going to be quiet. Ours has a bathroom and tables reserved for kids and thier caregivers. And even tables where food is allowed (to me this is the strangest change).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:90% of public library usage:

- bums
- unemployed losers for free movie rentals / computer games
- delinquent parents who use it as a free daycare for their bastard kids

Oh fuck you douche.


Bums...maybe they are looking for jobs

[Anonymous]

Ours definitely has more of a community center vibe. If you want a quiet area, you need to book one of the quiet rooms. Our library parking lot is the main drop off point for 4 private schools, so many of the kids whose parents can't immediately pick up use the library to start homework, and more often than not, just hang out.

I know notices were posted not too long ago about kids under 13 not being allowed to hang out in the library once they get off the private school buses, but no one really enforces it. Many parents use it as free after school care until they can get off work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:90% of public library usage:

- bums
- unemployed losers for free movie rentals / computer games
- delinquent parents who use it as a free daycare for their bastard kids

Weird. 90% of library patrons at mine are parents and their kids.