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Irritating Matters in the Library

  • 30-04-2009 06:06PM
    #1
    Kimmy-XxX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 57 ✭✭


    Okay, with exams fast approaching and the library packed to bursting point every day, I would have thought that people would employ a little more consideration but NO! :mad:

    The lecky library is a complete and utter joke. I went in the other day to write out a presentation..15/20 mins work max and spent the entire time listening to various groups of people around me chat about their night out last night, their night out tonight or other meaningless conversation that would be much better suited to the pub.. It's a library for goodness sake! One girl sat on the edge of my desk while I was trying to work so that she could be closer to her chattering group of friends!. Irritation crossed over into rude here.

    Furthermore, people who leave their things on a desk, thus reserving it for themselves when they decide to come back are ridiculous! Okay, I can understand someone nipping to the bathroom/for a smoke/to get a breath of fresh air or something along those lines. But, the people who leave things there in the morning and disappear for hours on end are having a laugh!:eek:

    Also, people answering their phone in the library. Just because you're whispering does not make it okay!

    Perhaps the most irritating of all is people ripping chapters out of books. i had a particularly unfortunate encounter with such an act and was incredulous. It is so disrespectful and sneaky!!..

    So what annoys anyone else in the library? Surely I'm not overeacting :rolleyes:


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  • #2
    Mark200
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,536 ✭✭✭Mark200


    Marry me.


  • #3
    sunnyjim
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    Degsy should be laying down the law!


  • #4
    Mark200
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,536 ✭✭✭Mark200


    Yeah well someone should be. As well as all those things mentioned ^^ I also can't stand people eating. Some people even bring in apples... the noisiest food in the world.


  • #5
    devinejay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 639 ✭✭✭devinejay


    Mark200 wrote: »
    Yeah well someone should be. As well as all those things mentioned ^^ I also can't stand people eating. Some people even bring in apples... the noisiest food in the world.

    Carrots are noisier, raw ones anyway. I generally have my headphones in in the library, so some stuff is blocked out, but I hate it when people eat food that has a strong smell wafting about. Also when people walk about and chat, or talk across distances. When they're chatting together at a table I tend not to notice.


  • #6
    Unshelved
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 865 ✭✭✭Unshelved


    Furthermore, people who leave their things on a desk, thus reserving it for themselves when they decide to come back are ridiculous! Okay, I can understand someone nipping to the bathroom/for a smoke/to get a breath of fresh air or something along those lines. But, the people who leave things there in the morning and disappear for hours on end are having a laugh!

    Dump the stuff on the floor and take over the desk yourself. The 15-minute rule in the library states that any seat left unoccupied by someone for 15 minutes or more may be taken over by someone else.

    As for the rest of the problems - if they're really driving you spare and you don't feel able to tackle it yourself then bring it to the attention of Library Staff or one of the Guards to sort out.


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  • #7
    experiMental
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,137 ✭✭✭experiMental


    Kimmy-XxX wrote: »
    Perhaps the most irritating of all is people ripping chapters out of books. i had a particularly unfortunate encounter with such an act and was incredulous. It is so disrespectful and sneaky!!..

    During a time of recession, even more competition is going to take place, more cheating and more ways of getting an unfair advantage, such as ripping a chapter out of a book. This is really something that has to be addressed more.

    A library shelf has to be fitted with super sensitive weighing scales to see what pages were ripped out. This might happen pretty soon ;)

    Sorry to be on a mad tangent, but I feel equally p1ssed off at the practise of ripping out chapters from library books.


  • #8
    Mark200
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,536 ✭✭✭Mark200


    Unshelved wrote: »
    Dump the stuff on the floor and take over the desk yourself. The 15-minute rule in the library states that any seat left unoccupied by someone for 15 minutes or more may be taken over by someone else.

    Well to be fair you have to be there for 15 minutes to know who has been gone for 15 minutes


  • #9
    dan719
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,597 ✭✭✭dan719


    You know what really annoys me? People who can't use the search button. This has been done to death, and beyond. :rolleyes:


  • #10
    Mark200
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,536 ✭✭✭Mark200


    dan719 wrote: »
    You know what really annoys me? People who can't use the search button. This has been done to death, and beyond. :rolleyes:

    yeah I started a topic when the Schols were on about it, but obviously people need to be reminded!


  • #11
    dan719
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,597 ✭✭✭dan719


    Mark200 wrote: »
    yeah I started a topic when the Schols were on about it, but obviously people need to be reminded!

    I know you did, that is what I was referring to.

    And what do you mean people have to be reminded? Wtf are you? The thought police? Could you be any more self-righteous?

    To OP, either tell them to STFU/go to librarian or get a blog and whinge about it there.


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  • #12
    Mark200
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,536 ✭✭✭Mark200


    dan719 wrote: »
    I know you did, that is what I was referring to.

    And what do you mean people have to be reminded? Wtf are you? The thought police? Could you be any more self-righteous?

    To OP, either tell them to STFU/go to librarian or get a blog and whinge about it there.
    Jeez someone's a bit moody


  • #13
    claire h
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,056 ✭✭✭claire h


    Oh, please, what is boards for if not for cheaper-than-therapy whining?

    I would like to add additional moaning about a topic which I know damn well has been discussed previously here, yes, but - apparently earlier thread on stupid people being incapable of turning off the sound on their computers has not magically made things better. This power-of-the-internets thing is a myth.

    Also, groups who 'study' together -stupid, stupid idea. Just admit that you're incapable of sitting quietly and concentrating on something for any longer for five minutes before launching into your yapping, and go off and get a coffee or something. I've seen people come in, sit down, have a snack and whisper-talk to each other for half an hour, and then open a book. Special circle of hell, that's all I'm saying...


  • #14
    dan719
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,597 ✭✭✭dan719


    claire h wrote: »
    Oh, please, what is boards for if not for cheaper-than-therapy whining?

    I would like to add additional moaning about a topic which I know damn well has been discussed previously here, yes, but - apparently earlier thread on stupid people being incapable of turning off the sound on their computers has not magically made things better. This power-of-the-internets thing is a myth.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054984837


  • #15
    Mark200
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    dan719 wrote: »
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054984837

    Well then surely that's the topic you should have used to moan about this topic? :rolleyes:


  • #16
    steveone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 739 ✭✭✭steveone


    right, I love this post because......all of the things that make me self conscious in the library went completely unnoted.. I always cringe when i unxip my bag (steady on...) , or unclick the folder or staple something, and as for tearing a page from my foolscap pad... that attracts the dirtiest looks....:D

    what sort of an idiot answers their fone in the library, go out to the stairs.
    and whats that bell that rings? sounds like someone's stuck in the lift....
    here's a novel idea (no pun intended), if you see someone ripping a page from a book report them. be on the offensive, I would without a second thought..even if it meant they'd be put out of college.


  • #17
    SimpleLogic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 663 ✭✭✭SimpleLogic


    people who leave there books on the table and bugger off for a few hours,are worse than those people on holidays who leave there towels on the deck chairs beside the pool all day. Really annoys me. Wish I had the gumption to walk around to each table and put all there stuff in a corner somewhere else.
    But I will just bitch about it instead :D


  • #18
    shay_562
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,764 ✭✭✭shay_562


    Mark200 wrote:
    dan 719 wrote:
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showt...p?t=2054984837
    Well then surely that's the topic you should have used to moan about this topic?

    Too many layers of meta...brain overloading...melting...AAAAAAAAUUUUGGGGHHHHHH!!!


  • #19
    dan719
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,597 ✭✭✭dan719


    Mark200 wrote: »
    Well then surely that's the topic you should have used to moan about this topic? :rolleyes:

    Or any of these?:rolleyes:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/search.php?searchid=6500901

    Can we get a new forum? TCD Library with super duper whingeing thread?:rolleyes:


  • #20
    HoboJesus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 136 ✭✭HoboJesus


    dan719 wrote: »
    Or any of these?:rolleyes:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/search.php?searchid=6500901

    Can we get a new forum? TCD Library with super duper whingeing thread?:rolleyes:

    Problem: People are talking about the same thing a lot.

    Solution: Don't participate.

    The end.


  • #21
    Degsy
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    sunnyjim wrote: »
    Degsy should be laying down the law!

    YOu may joke but people are taking the piss lately.
    The noise from the orientation space alone can be so loud that we have to shout to be heard on the counter.
    I went down to request silence and found about 8 groups of people hanging around and shouting..not talking..shouting "And i was like,OH MY GOD..he was like,OH MY GOD".
    I caught six people on thier phones in half an hour yesterday,from now on they're ALL getting fined,its the height of ignorance.
    The library is supposed to be there for`people to study,especially now as we are coming up to exams.
    If you want to shriek "He was like" and "I was like" at the tops of your voices go outside and have some bloody cop on.
    The staff and other library users are sick of it.


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  • #22
    House of Wolves
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 211 ✭✭House of Wolves


    I dont really mind the leaving stuff on the desk thing. There isnt a shortage of desks just yet. Fair enough in like a week and a weekend you have to come in at like 9 to get a desk, but if you pack up everything and go for your lunch then you wont have a desk when you come back, and if your planning on spending the whole day here you have to leave to get some lunch at some stage, unless you want people eating their lunch in the library.
    I know if everyone followed the rule of bringing their stuff with them this wouldnt happen but unfortunely that just isnt realsitic. If i get my desk in the morning, im keeping it for the day, im not giving it to some lazy bum getting up at 1 and wandering in!

    also im aware that this topic has been done to death, but it does gather alot of importance around this time of the year!


  • #23
    claire h
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    Yeah, I'm more bothered by people who don't leave their stuff, but leave library books on the desk so that it's not quite clear whether they've gone for lunch or left for the day. It's like this weird liminal space of table-giving-up/holding-onto, as though they might want to reclaim that space later but don't want to commit to it...

    (Yes, some of us think too much about these things.) :)


  • #24
    dan719
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,597 ✭✭✭dan719


    HoboJesus wrote: »
    Problem: People are talking about the same thing a lot.

    Solution: Don't participate.

    The end.


    Problem: People are talking about the same thing a lot.
    Solution: ?????

    Profit


    Or how about people use the search function for what it is designed for, and don't clog up the forum with extremely similar or even identical threads. :rolleyes:


  • #25
    Mark200
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,536 ✭✭✭Mark200


    House of Wolves wrote: »
    I dont really mind the leaving stuff on the desk thing. There isnt a shortage of desks just yet. Fair enough in like a week and a weekend you have to come in at like 9 to get a desk, but if you pack up everything and go for your lunch then you wont have a desk when you come back, and if your planning on spending the whole day here you have to leave to get some lunch at some stage, unless you want people eating their lunch in the library.
    I know if everyone followed the rule of bringing their stuff with them this wouldnt happen but unfortunely that just isnt realsitic. If i get my desk in the morning, im keeping it for the day, im not giving it to some lazy bum getting up at 1 and wandering in!

    also im aware that this topic has been done to death, but it does gather alot of importance around this time of the year!

    Well in the Hamilton at the moment there is pretty much a shortage of desks. You really need to keep an eye out walking around for places. But what annoys me the most is usually close to 50% of the unavailable spaces do not have people sitting there... just books and bags
    claire h wrote: »
    Yeah, I'm more bothered by people who don't leave their stuff, but leave library books on the desk so that it's not quite clear whether they've gone for lunch or left for the day. It's like this weird liminal space of table-giving-up/holding-onto, as though they might want to reclaim that space later but don't want to commit to it...

    (Yes, some of us think too much about these things.) :)

    hah I think for the library books you just presume they've left. A lot of people who take books off the shelves don't put them back, they just leave them on the desks.
    dan719 wrote: »
    Or how about people use the search function for what it is designed for, and don't clog up the forum with extremely similar or even identical threads. :rolleyes:

    I wasn't aware there was an urgent need for space in the TCD forum.


  • #26
    JackKelly
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    Kimmy-XxX wrote: »
    Perhaps the most irritating of all is people ripping chapters out of books. i had a particularly unfortunate encounter with such an act and was incredulous. It is so disrespectful and sneaky!!..

    wow, I've been in Trinity 4 years and I've never heard of people doing that. That is really the lowest of the low.


  • #27
    Liquorice
    Closed Accounts Posts: 849 ✭✭✭Liquorice


    TimAy wrote: »
    wow, I've been in Trinity 4 years and I've never heard of people doing that. That is really the lowest of the low.

    I first saw it in first year, coming up to exams, bloody annoying especially 'cause it was a popular book and the only really good one on that poet. We got an e-mail from our head of school this year giving out about it, which shows how serious it's getting.

    I hate when people take books and leave them on their desks all day, it's really frustrating 'cause it means no-one else can get at them, even when the person is finished with them. I managed to counteract that by coming into the library at 9, getting the popular books, making notes and putting them back on the trolley before getting less popular books. Is there some sort of policy on the amount of shelf books someone can have on their desk? That could be handy for study time but I can see how it would piss people doing assignments and projects off.


  • #28
    raah!
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    We could use some degsy over in the hamilton library, there's not even space to sit down there.

    I think also I shall begin to implement this sitting where peoples books are, and then telling them to go **** themselves. I won't really though, I don't think anyone likes doing that either, there is a direct contention with anohter person there, whereas leaving your books on a desk is just self serving.
    dan719 wrote: »
    Problem: Or how about people use the search function for what it is designed for, and don't clog up the forum with extremely similar or even identical threads. :rolleyes:

    But do you not think we should be allowed to vent our feelings on the matter?. Regardless of how similar what we say is to what's been said, we're saying it, thereby making it different.

    I'm not so bothered by all this library situation though, the value of most of my lectures has descended towards that of revision sessions rather quickly, so it's not really necessary to come in.


  • #29
    Mark200
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    raah! wrote: »
    I'm not so bothered by all this library situation though, the value of most of my lectures has descended towards revision sessions rather quickly, so it's not really necessary to come in.

    I pretty much find it impossible to study at home, so I pretty much need the library to get any study done.


  • #30
    raah!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,629 ✭✭✭raah!


    Mark200 wrote: »
    I pretty much find it impossible to study at home, so I pretty much need the library to get any study done.

    Yer it can be quite hard to study at home, too many distractions. And the library shouldn't be like that anyway, whether or not we have an alternative place of study.


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  • #31
    Jonathan
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 8,307 Mod ✭✭✭✭Jonathan


    Mark200 wrote: »
    I pretty much find it impossible to study at home, so I pretty much need the library to get any study done.
    Why not study in LG6 or LG8?


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