“Last semester I basically lived in the library for a week with a group of my friends,” said Jennifer Rosen, a SUNY Binghamton sophomore majoring in history and economics. “I ended up sleeping in the library on an air mattress that a bunch of people I was studying with had. We ate all our meals there and I practically didn’t go back to my room for like a week.”
“In one of the corner study rooms near where I was staying, there was someone with a coffee machine, a toaster and a whole table of food; they seriously lived in the library,”
Yuck
Unless that person with the coffee machine was hitting the campus gym to use its showers, that was potentially a somewhat fragrant spot in the library.
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I wish …
I wish I were an Information Commons consultant.
What the heck is that? Do they not have any librarians?
An Idea!
If students WANT to live in our libraries, why not make it so? It’s not going to be a great number of students, but we could build 5 or 10 efficiency apartments, or even just dorm rooms (no kitchen) and rent them out like other student housing. They could come with a policy against parties. I would have loved a room “in” the library as an undergrad.
To be even more innovative, we could rent them out by the week; pre-finals week would be booked months ahead!
Camping out in the library
There are some pictures of a makeshift tent students made during exams at University of Michigan’s Undergraduate Library a couple of years ago. The pictures are posted on Flickr at http://flickr.com/photos/uglib/sets/72157603863096817/