Library Organization

When you are on a campus tour, look at how the library is organized, it will tell you a lot about how students use the library.  I know it sounds funny, but there are many ways to use a library (and no, I don’t mean that).  Take a look at the Amherst College library above—all the students all lined up in a row.  This place was dead silent, everyone in their own little world.  There were very few spaces in this library that encouraged collaboration and interaction.  While libraries should allow for quiet study, that is not the only way we learn.  Plus, its no fun.