Noise in Reading Room

louliewan

I am getting closer to exploding each day! Like seriously! Why do people go to the reading room if they can't read? How do I arrive at this conclusion you may ask, because, if they could bloomin read they would notice the signs on the walls that tell people to be quiet!:mad:
Seriously Lads, a bit of quiet would be much appreciated, rant over

Hasn't been very loud when I was there tbh.
Never really is.
Probably all the sniffles from the cold season making it a bit loud :P

Seren_

I find the closer you sit to the doors, the noisier it is. Obviously when it's busy there isn't a huge choice of seats though. Earphones are always useful 0 even if you just listen to static or something. It helps block out the noise.

I used to pretty much live in there last year, not been in it too much so far this year yet.

Crom_Abú

Headphones are better than earphones, properly keep sound at a minimum. Nothing more annoying though when all the leaving Cert kids come in and take up all the spaces >:(

The library have ear plugs, no word of a lie!!!

louliewan

Deleted User wrote: »

Hasn't been very loud when I was there tbh.
Never really is.
Probably all the sniffles from the cold season making it a bit loud :P

I have been there at various times and have encountered group discussions, people talking on their mobile phones, people who think they have their headphones in the right jack socket on their laptop and don't, door held ajar while people have a little chat before parting...should I provide more examples? If it was not a designated quiet area I would accept that these things may happen but, I go there to study or work on essays and assignments assuming that it will be quiet.
As for the sniffles you mention, this I have not noticed.

geurrp the yard

A bit off topic but does anyone know if the reading room is open this weekend and if so what are the opening and closing times. Thanks.

Seren_

geurrp the yard wrote: »

A bit off topic but does anyone know if the reading room is open this weekend and if so what are the opening and closing times. Thanks.

Yep, the arts block is pretty much always open, and if it's open the reading room will be too. I've been in there until about 11pm before and I think I remember someone posting that they were in at 6am and it was open.

Scealta_saol

I remember the reading womb (the heat in there was something terrible!) being horrible if you were beside the door. Or just when the door opened in general because of everyone walking by... Generally though it stayed quiet. I always preferred the library or the language room handy being a languages student

Seren_

Ah hard to bate the SALL room

Baile an Locha

Rule number one about the SALL room.
Never mention the SALL room!

DB21

Resource Room in Education House is pretty handy too.

macgrub

It does me head in when groups are studying in the reading room. They stay quiet for about an hour and then, break time, let's have a chat . However, they're whispering, so that's okay? NO IT'S NOT!

Seren_

There's two tables and some chairs in the hall between the medical centre and access office; I used to study there sometimes last year. There's loads of sockets there too. It's not that quiet seeing as people sometimes walk through the hall, but it's pretty handy for charging your laptop and stuff.

Fbjm

I don't get why anyone would study anywhere on campus but the library, to be honest. I love the little booths they have on the second and third floors with the window views! Plus, it's incredibly quiet.

How so Joe

The library isn't big enough for everyone to study there...
besides which, if you're a computer science/physics/electronic engineering/other subjects I haven't figured out yet student, you get your own lab, often with computers and free printing, so why would you study in the library?

Fbjm

How so Joe wrote: »

The library isn't big enough for everyone to study there...
besides which, if you're a computer science/physics/electronic engineering/other subjects I haven't figured out yet student, you get your own lab, often with computers and free printing, so why would you study in the library?

Well I have a laptop and do my printing at home; that's my reason, anyway.

How so Joe

Fair enough. I was a sucker for the SALL room, personally, although we don't mention that.
Always found that the library was full, and if it wasn't full, the only empty spaces were ten miles away from the sockets.

Seren_

There's little cupboards with desks in them in the library! They're so odd; my friend discovered them last year and used to always use them because they have sockets.

Once, I checked my emails in the SALL room. I know, such a rebel.

Fbjm

Your Text Here wrote: »

There's little cupboards with desks in them in the library! They're so odd; my friend discovered them last year and used to always use them because they have sockets.

Once, I checked my emails in the SALL room. I know, such a rebel.

Yeah, the little booths. I love the one in the middle of the row on the third floor on the st. pats facing side, it's right in front of a huge bookcase filled with dusty, incredibly boring looking books, so the sense of privacy you get there is brilliant! And I've checked when that particular booth is full; there's no other booth like it in the library, i.e. all the rest look out at a table of people/long corridor, so the sense of privacy isn't really there.

notting hill

FED UP with the noise in the READING room!

The greatest noise does not come from the users but from the room itself. Its ventilating fan is screaming day and night. I don't know why guys upstairs didn't mention it. I believe this horrible white noise have be causing all the other noise including that from the users.

The administrator of the reading will not do any further movement because of that he/she has no chance to hear the noise at all. I'm fed up with all this, in fact who is the administrator? I'm going to write an email to tell him/her about all this.

sionnachrua

That fan was off for the first time I can remember last night when I was there. It was pretty late so could have been because of that. Either way, it was deadly!

I think it'd be pretty cool to have some group study areas/rooms in the library - ones that are quiet enough like, but that you're not bothering other people so much with your whispering. I study maths so group study's fairly unavoidable. I'm probably one of those whisperers who are getting on everyone's nerves so much.

banquo

notting hill wrote: »

FED UP with the noise in the READING room!

The greatest noise does not come from the users but from the room itself. Its ventilating fan is screaming day and night. I don't know why guys upstairs didn't mention it. I believe this horrible white noise have be causing all the other noise including that from the users.

The administrator of the reading will not do any further movement because of that he/she has no chance to hear the noise at all. I'm fed up with all this, in fact who is the administrator? I'm going to write an email to tell him/her about all this.

Send an email complaining about it to president@nuimsu.com, then I can say I've received complaints and get it fixed.

orl677

sionnachrua wrote: »

I think it'd be pretty cool to have some group study areas/rooms in the library - ones that are quiet enough like, but that you're not bothering other people so much with your whispering. I study maths so group study's fairly unavoidable. I'm probably one of those whisperers who are getting on everyone's nerves so much.

+1

Norrdeth

Funnily enough, I prefer to study in places that aren't considered areas for
study at all, park benches, Café's, bus stations etc.,
although these days what I have to do isn't really too heavy on the study side of things...
I find study areas too stressful and containing people full of nosiness/general contempt for other humans. :pac:

louliewan

banquo wrote: »

Send an email complaining about it to president@nuimsu.com, then I can say I've received complaints and get it fixed.

So, let me get this straight, you can do something about air conditioning that is making noise and yet you couldn't do anything about students making noise. I think maybe an e-mail should be sent to every student to remind them of the rules regarding the reading room. I was in there reading one morning last week when one student asked three students, who were chatting, to be quiet, they called her a stupid cow. Is this really something that people should have to put up with? I have already approached the Student Union with this complaint and nothing has been done except offering the option to use the library. This option does not address the problem, just allows it to continue.

LeixlipRed

That room needs a moderator or something. Someone who can ask people to leave if they're being disruptive, help keep the room clean, etc,. It's too big a room to allow students to police it themselves. People talking on their phones in there at full volume, wtf? Who the hell in their right minds thinks that is normal behaviour in a room were people are studying? None of that noise bothers me but I can see how it would annoy others.

banquo

+1, you really need someone in there, like in the PACRs.

The library is genuinely much quieter.

XxMCRxBabyxX

sionnachrua wrote: »

That fan was off for the first time I can remember last night when I was there. It was pretty late so could have been because of that. Either way, it was deadly!

I think it'd be pretty cool to have some group study areas/rooms in the library - ones that are quiet enough like, but that you're not bothering other people so much with your whispering. I study maths so group study's fairly unavoidable. I'm probably one of those whisperers who are getting on everyone's nerves so much.

There is one in the library. My friends and I practically live in it during exam times

sionnachrua

Do you mean downstairs? That's far too noisy. I can't study there at all.

XxMCRxBabyxX

sionnachrua wrote: »

Do you mean downstairs? That's far too noisy. I can't study there at all.

Nope I mean the study room on the 1st (2nd?) Floor!

Duddy

Tell 'em all to shush. People will be too scarleh to talk again.