Thread 24456779

Any of you adults read in a university library? Is it weird? Looks comfy AF. Look at those cute lamps, eee!

I’ll never forget how Powell Library smelled

>>24456779 (OP)
looks really nice. im lovin it

I spent countless hours wandering the stacks and reading in a cozy little nook no one ever visited. Slept there as well. Then senior year the library closed for remodeling. Never went back.

Lmao imagine having a nice university, our library looked like this. Literally no one was reading too they were just being loud.

5th floor of Evan's library is where I spent my time in college. Would go there after I graduated but still lived in town.

Do you have to pay? How much is parking? I bet catholic high-schools have nice libraries, too.

>>24456779 (OP)
My tech University had a great library. But it was all advanced highly technical STEM slop

Looks like Hogwarts.

Imagine the smell.

>>24456779 (OP)
>>24456800

This is the Boston Public Library, open to all. I read there all the time, if someone finds me we can be friends.

This one has an overseer.

>>24456819
Where are the lifeguards?

>>24456779 (OP)
There's fantastic looking reading libraries all over NYC. the homeless don't really hang out in the great rooms so its actually very nice to be there. No distractions, the atmosphere and books surrounding the people give a greater sense of focus and purpose, as if you are seen, you cannot just fuck around or you start to notice your own actions.

>>24456779 (OP)
Sometimes I read in my university library. Being surrounded by books is nice but the seating for the most part isn't very comfortable. The aesthetics can help you fall in love with a space, maybe get you started, but they only indirectly help you fall in love with whatever you're reading. When you're absorbed in a book you don't notice the library.

Honestly I prefer the top floor of another building on campus because it's high up, harder to find, and commands a view of the mountains. I pace during my breaks and for some reason a far vista stimulates me. Don't snooze on other public locations.

Library of Belarusian State University

>>24456851
A nice public space would do if we had subservient governments.

main rotunda of the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne

it's actually more crowded than this, packed full of tables and you can hardly walk in between, I suppose they cleaned it up a bit for this photo
lots of people reading and studying when I visited, which is nice
the main purpose of a library in this day and age I feel is to store old books, and to encourage education
in future I think libraries and museums should combine functions
and I feel strongly that there is something about being in the presence of great shelves of reference books that encourages students, and that it's something that nations should nurture

The only reason why I'd go on a cruise ship.

>>24456779 (OP)
That looks like the Adelaide university main hall in the library

>>24456793
>t. retard who doesn't know about quiet floors

>>24456793
That looks like a shitty office building.

>>24456985
Behold our quiet floor.

>>24457113
Replied to the wrong guy but you get the idea

>>24456779 (OP)
I love libraries. Love reading at libraries. I've worked at libraries.
Never liked studying at libraries.
I don't know why. For some reason I always separated business and pleasure when it came to that.

>>24457113
Do you get conjugal visits?

>>24457131
Nigga you haven't seen the hoes at that school, rather just stay in my cell

Universty students are potential terrorists so they don't allow anyone else on campus here

>>24456863
High school-tier, but again I didn't expect any better from Belarus

>>24457113
this guy really lives in ottawa

>>24456807
how do we know it's you ?

>>24456793
The spine of the guy in the rhs is a question mark, cool

>>24456801
The best kind of books

>>24457113
>Canadian
This explains everything.
GOOD MORNING SAAR

>>24457430
Still a few whiteys left, family came here in 1601 in Quebec City. So I'm French which might be worse.

>>24457463
My hand looks like that and I'm Indian lmao

>>24457463
mate, that hand don't prove shit, I'm chink and my hands have the exact same skin tone
(cause I've been deskbound for years)

>>24457463
I am hairy Azerbaijani and my hand (palm) looks the same.

>>24457533
>Azerbaijani
Cool country, love it.

>>24456806
Not that great actually. Too hot, too noisy, half tourists, I was there last month. Read a chapter and left. The other room of this building, Salle Labrouste, is much better, but access is only granted to researchers and PhD students.

>>24457585
it's shithole. That's why my entire family moved to Moscow. (Aka I am essentially more Russian now than Azeri)

I come here sometimes.

*a*
*a*
*A*
*AA*
*ACHOO*
...
*hOOOOOOnk*
*sniff*
*ah*
*hooOnk*
*SNIFF*
*ah*

>>24457594
Well, it's muslim, militant and turkic, what do you expect? Besides that, it's a loveable place.

University libraries are places with interesting dynamics. First, they're spaces where silence is the rule, meaning every chair scrape, phone notification, or sneeze can easily trigger laughter throughout the room. There's thus an underlying tension, rather uncomfortable, which somewhat inhibits immersing oneself fully in any mental activity. This same tension is found in any gathering where silence prevails: funerals, subway cars, classrooms, cathedrals. These are places where the sense of self dilutes into the aggregate of all present human consciousnesses, from which occasionally something larger than oneself emerges.

Regarding university libraries, this sensation remains relatively faint, partly due to the inauthentic presence of many individuals who are there more for the illusion of learning than to truly engage in learning. This explains the constant back-and-forth movements observed.

Another interesting aspect is the diversity of books. From one aisle to the next, you shift from an anthology of 18th-century French poetry to the sociology of beavers in aquatic environments. There truly is everything, both the worst and the best, which differs somewhat from standard bookstores that mostly carry good works (except for contemporary books, where the opposite tends to be true).

As for reading, if the book is good, then location doesn’t truly matter, even if, personally, these conditions are suboptimal—but I suppose this depends on personality. To me, the best place to read is a garden, as it is the only place where one can be simultaneously outdoors and indoors.

>>24457666
Which LLM did you use?

>>24457666
>—

>>24456779 (OP)
My uni library is comfy but not amazing like this. It’s always full at peak hours with lots of little nooks and conference tables. What I really love is browsing the archives though. They’re sorted by year of archive which means all genres are mixed up (you’re supposed to use the indexing computers to find shit), but I prefer the random encounters that pop up on the shelves.

>>24457666
are these LLM users freshman CS majors trying to write a paper? like seriously what is the point of wasting their and our time?

>>24456779 (OP)
Our library was literally falling apart when I was in college, I just did homework and pills there

>>24456781
I always went to the high floors of YRL, despite being infinitely less aesthetic. Nice view right by a window, very few people even during finals, and generally much quieter.

>>24457666
Dude you're overthinking this. I studied in my university library and people made the occasional loud noise and it was no big deal. Everyone there had something more important to do.

>>24457472
>>24457528
>>24457533
I'll bet you do

>>24458044
idiot

>>24456787
They said "remodeling" but it was really just to remove all that dried saliva from the desk you used.

>>24457211
I'll wear a name tag "Achmed"
I'll be in the young adult section

State Library of New South Wales in Sydney

>>24456793
I raise you the Douglas College New Westminster campus library. This is a rendering but all the promotional photos they took give the illusion that the library is well-lit (which it isn’t). There is one window that looks out onto a brick wall. In the spring you’d go in around 2:30, do an assignment, and it would be dark by the time you left. I went there before they renovated it and the dated gray-everything was far comfier. They also didn’t bother upgrading the bathroom which has a stall that has been broken since I first started attending in 2015.

>>24457472
>>24457528
>>24457533
>my hand too saar
>won't post hand

I'm thinking of going to the library so I can get more language study done

>>24458188
Look at all of those cuck masks.

>>24456793
That university looks hella diverse.

>>24458229
My sense of self worth is not tied to my skin icenigger

>>24456779 (OP)
This is Maag library at Youngstown State University where I'm attending this fall for world history courses

yeah

>>24458583
Based

>>24456802
Good

>>24458598
>>24458600
Kill yourself, Freemason.

>>24458229
guess which of the three I am

>>24458824
*edit: well uh that should read 11/6 but hey maybe I can save it for a month down the line

>>24457598
Fuck this shit I'm going home

>>24456793
>>24458228
Any books for why i have such a viscerally negative response to architecture like this

>>24458913
Goyslop architecture. Soulless.

>>24457463
Is that you, Nathan? I love you

>>24457463
I'll be in Ottawa this weekend, what should I do for fun there?

people don't read in university libraries they study for the test they have to pass so they can start getting paid and buy things.

majority of people are not interested in becoming knowledgeable and this rule doesn't stop applying when you pack them in a building and call it a university.

>>24458690
No u

>>24456787
>reading in a cozy little nook no one ever visited.
No such thing as a "hidden" nook in a public space.

>>24457113
Looks like jail.

>>24459951
Who said hidden? I never saw anyone in that area.

>>24459843
Depends what you enjoy, we have a bad version of most things. Hipster government worker shit isn't bad, there are a few good climbing gyms and ethnic restaurants.

I really like the locks downtown, it's the reason Ottawa exists and I like the history, but they aren't much to look at.

The Nature museum is pretty good, the other museums are all ok.

Nothing in Ottawa is exceptional or world class except the Rideau Canal, but only in the winter. Byward Market used to be alright but we've had a massive invasion of homeless and drug users (the scary kind) and even if you are comfortable in a sketchy environment it just ruins the atmosphere.

>>24458228
looks like a parking garage
>>24456793
looks like an airport

>>24457666
>First, they're spaces where silence is the rule, meaning every chair scrape, phone notification, or sneeze can easily trigger laughter throughout the room.
no, stopped reading there

>>24456779 (OP)
>Any of you adults read in a university library?
Back when I was in college it was THE BEST PART of being a student by far.
The library was huge, well stocked, well organized, with everything from comfy chairs in corners with natural light to tons of nooks with divider desk things that allows you to zone in when actually hardcore studying or working on projects.

It was so good dude. I enjoyed the school library so much. I would sometimes intentionally get classes wide apart from each other in time so that I could spend hours every day in the library.
I think all that time squinting over books degraded my eyesight though. That and a shit monitor I had a home. Around that time I had to get the strength of my glasses raised like 3 times in 3 years.

>>24459692
This library was my favorite and secret place to take a dump on campus

>>24457595
wow. where the heck is that? the vatican?

>>24460175
Can I come visit you? I want to cuddle.

>>24456779 (OP)
Never, since I've done almost all of my reading at home, on couches, in big soft recliners, or in bed, since about 1977. I'm not physically lazy by any stretch, but have never been able to read at a length or depth sufficient to enjoy it unless a certain level of sensory deprivation goes with it. I even identify a little with the image of Descartes working (if you can call it that) in a big soft bed, and write best in the lowest possible effort setup, beside a big screen using a wireless keyboard and mouse that works smoothly on sheets. I suppose my handwriting, seldom as I use it now, is best described as vertical capitals loosened and corroded by their use mostly in notes to self, and such.

>>24460262
Lmao I'm going /out/ for the weekend maybe next time honey

>>24460273
*I did take to a certain chair in the reading room of a big municipal library about a mile from me around 2013, but that was mostly for downloading,. It was a nice chair, like all 9 or so in that room, soft yet skinned in neoprene in an oddly fine print. Wonder where they got those, since I've never seen anything like them before or since.

>>24456779 (OP)

The library at the University of Guam looked nothing like that when I studied there in the late 2000s.

>>24460315
ok luv you anywya

>>24460121
>no one ever visited
One can argue it's hidden.

>>24456863
>empty
Yeah no wonder your country is the way it is

>>24457158
It's just one small reading room out of dozens.

>>24457211
I'll put /lit/core on the desk

>>24461936
Try to add Call of the Crocodile to the library collection while you're at it.

>is it weird to read in a library
Neurosis is destroying humanity.

>>24456793
Reminds me of Evans Library in Texas A&M University, a lot of the desks and stuff got ripped out for weird artsy chairs and coffeeshop fixtures. And then they got rid of the copy machines for some reason.

>>24462019
a little offtopic, but f gardner does put copies of his work in libraries around the country and often there will be a $50 bill in there around page 50

>>24462732
I'm sure of it. His wealth and generosity is legendary.

>>24456779 (OP)
Would not want to be in a place filled with neurotic mentally ill leftists and non whites

>>24462770
Yes THEY are mentally ill. Not the person who perceives the world this way, he has it figured out.

>>24458824
>posts some swarthy nigger hand
indian, clearly

I've studied in my seminary's library, it's super comfy. They have a huge collection, including a large phenomenology section, so I've spent hours sitting at a study desk with Levinas and Marion.

>>24459843
Leave

>>24458824
please clean your hands and fingernails sir

>>24456779 (OP)
It is weird, but stare at the window and inmerse yourself in the book

>>24457430
Why do you say this? Is Canada now an Indian country?

>>24458850
But November 6th is four and a half months away.

>>24457463
You will never pass as a woman with those hands

>>24465264
if you insult my bf again

>>24456779 (OP)
>Look at those cute lamps
I'd be looking for cute feet desu

>>24464881
Yes. Canada is flooded with Indian immigrants and college students.

>>24456779 (OP)
idk how those mexicans did it but you would have to pay me to leave this

>>24466076
Maybe they did it with architects and other engineers?

>>24466035
There is nothing wrong with returning the land back to its original owners

I spent a few hours at the MML library in Montana once and it smelled like onions sauce

>>24467338
forgot about the soifilter. Basically the whole place had a slight tinge of kikkoman. Thankfully it wasn't strong enough to be distracting

>>24467349
it's probably on account of those japanese cowboys you hear about

>>24466580
>mexicans
>architects and other engineers
uh-huh

>>24467407
Only trailer trash who have never been to Mexico would say that

>>24463329
quite wrong
>swarthy
I wish

>>24463892
hands are clean
yeah this was just before I clipped my nails, admittedly

>>24456779 (OP)
That's either an older European uni or one of the few nicer American ones.

Most look like this >>24456793, ugly modernized crap. They're also typically empty during the day and full of people in the afternoon or night working on group projects or just fucking around.

But, some of them do have small sections in the stacks that are meant for reading and kinda nice and isolated.

Rare books room

>>24466739
Wrong type of Indian. The curry ones, not the buffalo ones.

>>24467547
Could be re2 or tormented souls 1

>>24456779 (OP)
libraries dont gatekeep knowledge anymore, if they ever did.
For a brief moment it was Internet, now its back to real world experience.

I went to a big state school so the library was always filled with Chinese and Indians. I never used it for this reason. Now as a researcher I rarely go on campus at all.

5 gigantic floors of this. It looks like an abandoned office building, but at least the selection was nice. Hardly anyone left the 1st floor which is where all the computers/printers were.

>>24456779 (OP)
it's comf

>>24457113
I did a talk at this school once.

>>24458228
>Douglas College New Westminster campus
Vancouver gang

Spent a few days studying here, they opened it for students for about one summer. Remains one of my best studying memories. Too bad I was studying economics

>>24457595
you can actually access the library at strahov sometimes? Only time I went there they had a ribbon in front of the entrance so you could only peek in.

>>24470226
Are you famous, anon?

I've never been in a university library that looked like that. My university's library was more like an office building than a cathedral. I loved browsing it though. Especially the stacks in the basement levels.

>>24468481
Wow this is pretty close to my university library. I posted >>24471948

Same deal, the first floor had all the computers and printers and media rooms for viewing DVDs and such, so hardly anybody ever went upstairs or downstairs to the stacks. If you wanted peace and quiet you just had to go up to the third floor.

When I was in college I would go to the tallest level and into the far corner, behind the bookshelves, where there were beanbags. I would do my homework and read and decompress away from people there. It was comfy as hell.