Just as resting your eyelids makes you feel sleepy, opening your eyes wide and looking upwards sends signals from the muscles around your eyes to your brain telling it to wake up, making you feel almost instantly energised. Like most behavioural techniques, it sounds laughably simple but works almost instantly like some kind of black magic.
We don’t so much blame the person who failed to file an objection to the arrival of a kebab truck opposite the library entrance as continue to stab an effigy of what we imagine they might look like on a …
No takeaways, please. It’s a library, not a kebab shop. Read more »
The library can get very busy and nerves are easily frayed when people feel under pressure. Even a whispered conversation can carry far and wide in a quiet, confined and echoey space. At the other extreme, people working in splendid …
Keeping the peace (or how not to have arguments) Read more »
“I really liked the library and the services available. It is comfortable and easy to use.” You told us that “A lack of enforced quiet areas also makes it difficult to concentrate.” We better arranged the study zones so when …
Imagine if you will that you are riding in a train carriage (or a car, or a plane) and there is a crying baby a scant few seats away. Now imagine that babies came with a convenient switch that could …
There has been some confusion over the zoning arrangements in the Postgraduate Study Suite. Room 0.39 in the corner of the building, together with the two small rooms attached to it (0.40 and 0.41) comprise an Individual Silent Study zone; room 0.38, …
Everyone likes to work, study, and relax differently but most people need access to a computer of some sort. Particularly at busy times, we find desktops and chairs littered with bags so other people cannot work there makes life difficult for …
As deadlines and exams fast approach, an age-old problem will soon flare up once again. And as ever, the divisive issue will anger some and annoy others. Before too long the Library will see students packed in tightly, with inevitable debris scattered far and …
Everyone likes to work differently and most people like to work alone for much, sometimes nearly all, of the time. Many people also want to get away from noise and distractions to work more efficiently. This is why we have …
Of group meeting pods and individual silent study Read more »
Talking in the Individual Silent Study zones is likely to end with someone asking you to move somewhere else. The same thing tends to happen in shared houses, where it is even more of a problem! Try not to treat others …
