A column from Monday in the Gilroy Dispatch (picked up in today's LIS News) briefing discusses cell phone use in the library.
The columnist quotes Community Librarian Lani Yoshimura in response to a reader who wrote in to complain about the noise and cell phone yakking going on in the library. Yoshimura added, “People think of the old traditional libraries where people would just say, ‘SHH!’ and that’s not really what some libraries are today. They’re more like community centers with computers and teen areas and such.”
The Gilroy Library is where I started my internship. I have to admit that just this Sunday I shh'ed a fair number of kids who were not using their inside-the-library voices, but it certainly isn't a completely quiet place most of the time. Most of our libraries here have a quiet area -- ideally one blocked off with glass doors so it is really quiet inside -- but I guess the levels aren't universally enforced.
Posted by Emily at August 24, 2004 07:42 AM