LIbrary Etiquette

For me library is like a sacred place and reading my passion. I still wonder why people come into the library to voice chat on their laptops, socialize, to do group works, group discussions and all other things except READ. Even the college staff just come barging into the library shouting at the top of their voice. And the funniest thing in this college is that, books, badges, T-shirts and all other things are distributed to student inside the library. The only place I have seen this happening.

My MBA colleagues think that I am preparing for placement just because I spend most of the time in the library. If only they knew that I have been using the library from the time I learn't to read. I feel incomplete at the end of the day if I dont read the newspaper because that has been my habit for a long time. Unlike Singapore campus ( maybe thats the reason, my classmates have not seen me much in the Spore library), here in Dubai I am forced to read the newspaper in the college itself as our hostel is separated from the college and we dont have WiFi access in the hostel. The other reason is that I prefer reading from the hard copy rather than from the laptop. So when you have a library which subscribes to all good newspapers, why strain my eyes on the laptop.

Here in my college somebody shamelessly smuggles newspaper out of the library at the end of the day to read in the comfort of his/her hostel room. Somedays I dont even get to see the ET's and the FT's. I was told that last time a student was caught doing the same, he got fined heavily ( Dh 300). Let others also benefit from the college and the library. BUY YOUR OWN NEWSPAPERS!!!