Posted by: maxine | August 16, 2006

Public libraries for working or reading in

A place to read or work

By Tim Coates

A public library is a place you can go to sit, read and, if you wish work quietly and privately.

So a good library needs seats that are comfortable and clean and working space that is practical, dignifed and a bit solitary.

I wish libraries would not place all their desks together so that people are crammed and have no space to themselves. I have just been in two libraries in which I would have felt uncomfortable to sit and work.

Similarly I wish libraries wouldn’t put all their internet stations together and on desks that have no space for papers or books.

See this link for the article and many other excellent postings.

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