Courtesy and Noise Policy
This policy assigns each public space in the building to a courtesy “zone” indicating its noise level as described and visually indicated on the Library Zones map below.
Zone Descriptions
- Silent
- No conversation
- No cell phone use
- Quiet
- Brief, quiet conversations; keep noise to a minimum
- No cell phone use
- Active
- Brief Conversations
- No cell phone use
- Library transactions at service desks
- Collaborative
- Extended conversations
- Cell phone use
- Group meetings
Library Zones Map
Silent
- Reference Reading Room
- Women in Ministry Room
Quiet
- Atrium
- Korean Missions Room
- Non-reservable rooms at end of South Gallery
- North Gallery
- Periodicals Reading Room
- South Gallery
- Study carrels (Lower Level near Atrium, 1st Floor overlooking Atrium, 2nd and 3rd Floors at end of stacks)
- Tower Room
- Tree House (upper and lower)
Active
- Barth Center
- Concourse / Circulation Desk / Reference Desk
- Digital Learning Lab
- IT Help Desk
- Special Collections & Archives
Collaborative
- Alumni Room
- Brick Café
- Lobby
- Meeting Room (1010)
- Reservable rooms (3090, 3094, 3131)
- Seminar Rooms (all)
- Theodore Sedgwick Wright Room
- Theron Assembly Room