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Originally Posted by issybird
I needed a bolt hole for a while yesterday when I was out and about. Ordinarily I'd just go walkabout but it was too cold, so I ducked into the public library, thinking I could hang out and read.
Was I mistaken! Middle of the day, school wasn't out yet, but the noise! It was like the New York Stock Exchange in a tanking market. Whatever happened to being quiet in libraries? There wasn't a place to be found where people weren't talking in normal conversational tones. How I longed for the old days, with nasty looks and shushes.
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When our local library expanded and remodeled, they made very strategic wall and half-wall decisions that make the space seem quiet, even during toddler storytime in the kids' area.