Apr 7, 2011

No talking!!

Ya know what?  I'm tired of the library.  In this case I'm talking about the Marriott Library at the U.  I'm not a library hater in most cases.  Except as I found out yesterday, the City Library charges you $3/hour to park there or you can take your chances with the parking meters and probably get a $30 ticket.  But that's not the point of this.  It's the Marriott.  Almost 2 years ago they finished renovating it and it looks a krazillion (congratulations, you just witnessed the invention of a new number) times better.  You don't feel like you're going to get mugged when you're walking through the stacks or that a dust bunny's going to come to life and eat your soul.

So all these upgrades are part of whats causing the problems.  The library staff act like OCD interior designers.  The best example of this is the 3rd floor.  It has very comfortable chairs, study rooms, group and quiet study areas and is where the majority of the open study space is. The 4th and 5th floors are just for print making, book collections and administration offices.  So on this 3rd floor the library security personnel patrol it tighter than the Minute Men on the US-Mexico border.  If they see you have any sort of food, they're on you like a SWAT team.  They make sure that you walk over the garbage and throw your apple away because we all know how much of a mess an apple makes when it tips over.  Or skittles. Or a PB&.

But maybe the most annoying part is at 10:45pm.  They come on the PA system and announce that the 3rd, 4th and 5th floors are closing at 11pm for the night so you either need to move to the 1st or 2nd or leave.  Then they start flashing the lights, I'd imagine similar to what a pre-school teacher would do to get their kids attention.  So if you go down to the 1st or 2nd it's packed with no where to sit cause there were already people there, and then all the 3rd floorers came down. Now why they do this I have no idea.  Alot of universities have libraries that stay open 24 hours.  I think they do this because they realize that students do need to study at some point, and lots of times it just happens to be late at night.  Right now my study schedule is about 9pm -2am.  Did I choose this?  No.  It's what happens when you have things to do other than just studying.  But I would like to thank the semi-useless employees of the JW Marriott library for their continued annoyance.

1 comment:

Rosemary Campbell said...

I eat lunch on the third floor every day and have never been caught...hehehe.