Dear Colleagues,
Has anyone come up with any innovative systems or actions for policing
silent areas? This could be just doing lots of patrols to using new
technologies to help. Any suggestions would be gratefully received.
I would also be interested in any policies people have on this issue and
how these are backed up with action. If you have such a policy how is
this supposed to work? And does it work in practice?
Also what sort of signage do you use to tell people they are entering or
are in a silent area?
We have only one Silent area which has two walkways through it. We have
recently introduced study desks with lower dividers and wireless laptop
capability. This seems to have added a lot to the problem with people
now doing group work over the dividers and playing bits to each other
and showing each other things on the laptops etc. We only have one
SILENT area the rest of the LRC has various zones which have different
noise levels so it is not as if there is not other areas people can go
and chat and use the laptops etc.
Anyway I am sure others must be facing similar things and if you have
found a way of tackling the problems I would love to hear about it.
I will as always circulate any feedback to the list.
Cheers
Steve
Steve Lee
Information Librarian
Applied Sciences
LRC
University of Glamorgan
Pontypridd
Mid-Glam
CF37 1DL
Tel 01443 483391
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