http://www.eveningstar.co.uk/search/story.aspx?brand=ESTOnline&category=News&itemid=IPED20%20Feb%202007%2012:42:06:317&tBrand=ESTOnline&tCategory=search
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The retired nurse said: “I had such a nasty shock. On entering the art section upstairs I was met by a cacophony of pop music coming from a player on the enquiry desk. This was very irritating and upsetting.”
And what did this fool expect in the music and arts section?
I have been to this library on a number of occasions and there is no way the music from that section can be heard elsewhere in the building.
Its a bit “noisy” downstairs in the lending area as there are automatic book issue/return machines that go “beep” all the time (they are cool pieces of kit though!) and a kids section where they do story time, but I thought every library since the 1980s has been like that.
There is also a quiet study room (with a big stained glass window on it) which this man could use if he really wanted quiet – he could have taken his fine art books or whatever he was after into a corner there and had the silence he wanted…..
TBH I think the library in this town is one of the few good things about it – it mixes traditional architecture with high tech, the staff in there are helpful and there are is a whole section of local history books for borrowing (which is what I went in there to find).
Libraries shouldn’t be stuffy boring old places – but unfortunately it seems some people seem to want to drag Britain back to the 1950s….
