Struggling to stud - what happened to quiet libraries?

[Larks]

I've been struggling to get into some studying. At home I'm distracted by too many things: all the work that I need to catch up on around the house since being up in Darwin; playing with Hartley and H28 and huntin' varmi'ts. Plus it's bloody warm today and we haven't installed any A/C at home.

So in an effort to try and get in at least 2 hours a day of real and valuable study time I've come down to the local library for some A/C, power for laptop and quiet "study" atmosphere to try and fire me up to get into it.

Well blow me but this joint is as a noisy as a bloody shopping centre, I may as well go and park in a coffees shop in the middle of the Mall.

There are kids running amok, mobile phones going, books being dropped into trolleys, computer games banging and chiming away and the noisiest of the lot are the bloody librarians!! Having a fat old time cackling and laughing and joking with each other at the tops of their voices. There is certainly no such thing as a "hush" believe me.

So what to do? Maybe I'm just finding more excuses to skive off, but I really do want to get into this studying again, just need to find the start and get some momentum up.

Any tips on reviving my "studyability"?.........it's been a while since I've had to hit the books.

Are any of you studying and how have you managed to get back into it?

[skuthorp]

Industrial earplugs, the expanding type.

[C. Ross]

If you're "struggling to stud", I suppose a library is as good a place as any, but I don't think I'd want it too quiet. <grin>

[David G]

Larks,

If you're truly struggling to stud - as your thread title states - there are a number of possible remedies. There is, of course, the little pills that... OH, study. Nevermind.

[Captain Blight]

Youse guyz have gots ta quit these red-herring thread titles!!

[Gold Rock]

I think Larks is on to something here. Having become a liveaboard about five years ago, my use of public libraries has hugely increased and it's eerie how closely his observations match mine. I'm in my mid/late forties, and as a child libraries were profoundly hushed places. Whispers, the faint rustle of pages being turned, the occasional muffled cough, that was about it. For that matter, back in my college days things were pretty much the same, allowing for the fact that we were college kids. But now, Larks is right on the mark. The librarians are the worst of the lot. No attempt whatsoever to moderate themselves or the patrons. Wierd. And Larks is in Oz, for crying out loud. I think we've stumbled on a global phenomenon.

[Larks]

Bye the way, when I edited the title spelling it showed up as corrected in the post but doesn't do so on the list of threads - weird.......

[Bernadette]

greg what are you studying?

[Larks]

Nothing particularly thrilling, my Marine Surveying ticket through Lloyds

[rbgarr]

Bye the way, when I edited the title spelling it showed up as corrected in the post but doesn't do so on the list of threads - weird.......

You have to do it through 'Go Advanced' on the Edit page.

Same problem here in a (very small) small town library. The librarians and people checking out books chatter away at full volume like they're long lost friends. Manners have changed.

[outofthenorm]

Blonde in Library (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DctVteQDRIM) :D:D

[Yeadon]

I've spent a lot of time working in the Seattle Public Library downtown. Strong wifi ... every resource you'd ever need, including coffee.

And the librarians are the worst when it comes to noise. Their shoes squeak, they wheeze, cough, whisper loudly, and then when you need help, they are nowhere to be found.

At least the homeless guys have the courtesy to just pass out quietly in the corner.