{"id":31,"date":"2010-01-15T15:37:04","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T23:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldblogs.ups.edu\/libsuggest\/?p=31"},"modified":"2010-01-15T15:37:04","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T23:37:04","slug":"noisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/libsuggest\/2010\/01\/15\/noisy\/","title":{"rendered":"Noisy!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s very distracting when people talk on the phone or work in groups in the front room. Perhaps there could be signs reminding patrons to be considerate of other who would like study in silence.<\/em><\/p>\n

The first floor is by nature a little louder than the other areas of the library, with lots of coming and going, checking in and out and conversation. For silence, we\u2019d suggest heading to an upper floor\u2014the higher you go, the quieter it is. Check out the whole guide to quiet and group study<\/a> for details about the best places for either.<\/p>\n

That said, if you\u2019re disturbed by people being too loud, we suggest simply asking them to quiet down politely. Most people are just a little unaware of their volume. If that doesn\u2019t work or you\u2019re too uncomfortable, let a library staff member know, and we will speak to the noise-makers. We want the library to be a good place for everybody\u2014those who need a little noise & those who need silence!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s very distracting when people talk on the phone or work in groups in the front room. Perhaps there could be signs reminding patrons to be considerate of other who would like study in silence. The first floor is by … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":225,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[52,54],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sound","tag-noise","tag-policies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/libsuggest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/libsuggest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/libsuggest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/libsuggest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/libsuggest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/libsuggest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/libsuggest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/libsuggest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/libsuggest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}