I don't get this! Why has it suddenly become that libraries - LIBRARIES - don't have a quiet AREA? Am I going mad or has the world flipped upside down? Libraries used to be the one place where even talking was discouraged. Can they not stay that way? Just one place where people can go and have some peace to study/read? I've been in three or four times now and it's not just me that has noticed this place is a free-for-all for general chatter. It's great that FH library is child-friendly, but keep them in the children's area, and they can watch DVDs at home or films in the cinema, not in the blummin library! Also put up a general 'Quiet please' sign to discourage those people I've heard reading aloud to each other/testing each other/waffling in general. There are plenty of places to go and socialise, a library is for browsing/studying or just being alone with your thoughts. Where else can this be done these days??
Phew.
Thought I had something on my mind about this and this was it.