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so, is it impossible for someone to hold a quiet conversation on the phone?
I dunno about you but I often don't need to talk any louder than I need to talk to the librarian when the mic is half an inch from my mouth.
I don't deny that it should be quiet, I only question the reason why. Again, I have no problem with my ability to tune out and focus on what i'm reading or studying. Hell I can listen to music and watch tv at the same time, read a book and music at the same time, I guess I don't "get it" with this "omg sensory overload" barrier of sanctity that people append to the library. I just don't think cell phones are the culprit here, loudmouths on the other hand...
Maybe it's just "my generation" or something, but I've come to the conclusion that if I desire "alone time" or "quiet time" that the safest place is the bathroom. Second place, Bedroom.
I've never expected a PUBLIC place where you introduce the chaos factor of a multicultural merging and different backgrounds to ever be a quiet place. I always viewed it as a facility to get in, get your shit, check it out, and take it to a quiet place. I have never been to a quiet library, it's a place where information resides, and humans exchange information via speech as well as writing.
Don't take me too seriously though, I'm not one of those people who spend a lot of time at a library, I dont impose my beliefs on others in public facilities and I wouldn't hang out somewhere where others would do that to me anyway.
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