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April 16, 2010
No sleeping in the library
I was in a library this afternoon in central London, reading quietly and was startled to see a policewoman arms-a-waving wake up a young student who had fallen asleep over her essay.
"No sleeping in the libraries" cried out this strange creature dressed in a dark blue space suit with 'community police' written over her back.
It was embarrassing. Who thinks up these ideas?
Posted by Perkins at April 16, 2010 9:35 PM
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A tad over the top I think? Why was a community officer enforcing library rules, surely this situation should have been left up to the discretion of the library staff? We have lots of people falling asleep in our library, if they snore we wake them up if not we don't.
Posted by: Alan Wylie at April 17, 2010 12:26 PM
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Perkins usually opposes diversification in the function of libraries. In their heyday, their use as daytime dosshouses for "tramps" had to be controlled by the law.
But I suppose the student wasn't a tramp, the community officer wasn't a policewoman, and the warm, quiet, safe place with a derisory collection of books wasn't really a library.
Posted by: No Brain at April 17, 2010 9:51 PM