Coffee cups. Food wrappers. Soda bottles. Students talking on their mobiles. A laugh here and there. A student sleeping on the couch. Bags strewn on the floor. A couple cuddling in one corner.
These are not scenes in a cafeteria nor at a student lounge. These are scenes at the library I'm working at. And these according to a colleague are still conservative compared to other academic libraries here.
Coming from a very traditional albeit conservative library set-up in the Philippines where we still "shushed" at students, rang a bell when the noise becomes unbearable and when almost everything is prohibited - bags, food, sleeping, talking on the mobile phone - I'm still adjusting to this new library environment even after weeks of exposure.
I've read about the changing library space before but reading about it and actually seeing it are two different things at least for me. But I'm not complaining because there's less "police" work to do and more library work accomplished. There's a cleaner to clear all the mess students leave behind anyway.
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