{"id":69,"date":"2012-06-03T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-03T04:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/?p=69"},"modified":"2012-06-03T16:03:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-03T04:03:00","slug":"3-blogjune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/3-blogjune\/","title":{"rendered":"3 #blogjune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The branch library I work in has three floors:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<strong>level 1<\/strong> has the information desk and computers and casual reading area and various other bits and bobs, and the other day someone came to the desk and said, &#8220;Can you tell me how to get to the library?&#8221;  On being told they&#8217;d already got there they asked, &#8220;But where are all the books?&#8221;  I think sometimes we can be so worried about making a nice open entrance and about proving we&#8217;re &#8220;more than just books&#8221; that we forget that actually a lot of people <em>really like books<\/em>.  (Our level 1 does in fact also have a small high demand collection, a small reference collection, and out of view of the entrance there&#8217;s mobile stacks full of print journals and such, and also this hardly ranks as our number one complaint.  But it&#8217;s a complaint I&#8217;ve seen\/heard about other branches and other libraries throughout the world.)<\/li>\n<li>\n<strong>level 2<\/strong> has about half our books, and bookable discussion rooms, and great big discussion tables, and lots of other desks, and also the science fiction collection in a unique architectural feature that we&#8217;ve dubbed &#8220;the playpen&#8221; and &#8220;the wine bar&#8221; and various other nicknames.  This floor tends (due to discussion tables) to get very noisy.<\/li>\n<li>\n<strong>level 3<\/strong> has the other half of the books and more study desks.  It&#8217;s half mezzanine, so gets much of level 2&#8217;s noise, but half is behind some solid doors and is our quiet zone, which can get absolutely packed.  Again, we talk a lot about wanting to make libraries happenin&#8217;, buzzin&#8217; places &#8212; and obviously it wouldn&#8217;t get noisy if there weren&#8217;t some use to that &#8212; but whenever I&#8217;ve gathered student comments for videos about what they like about the library, one of the most frequent comments is that they love having a quiet space to study.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A few years ago I came across a library that had divided its space up into Red, Yellow, and Green zones &#8212; an intuitive way to make it clear to students how much talking was allowed where, which apparently worked very well.  I can&#8217;t find my old link to it now, but from a quick web search it looks like the idea&#8217;s caught on widely:  here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/lostoncampus.com.au\/4193\">just one implementation among many<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The branch library I work in has three floors: level 1 has the information desk and computers and casual reading area and various other bits and bobs, and the other day someone came to the desk and said, &#8220;Can you tell me how to get to the library?&#8221; On being told they&#8217;d already got there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[66,74,75],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}