absolutely. some people need pindrop silence to study, OP. the library is the only place. you wanna talk? go to the coffeeshop, a study lounge, conference room. get over your pet peeve and stop being selfish 👎
Those people should be in the quiet study sections-I go to the quiet study areas when I need quiet study time.
But when people are trying to group study (like for anatomy for example, group studies are often very helpful, especially since everyone does different dissections) they should be able to talk in the non-quiet section of the library.
Only a total jerkwad would purposely sit in the non-quiet section and then whine about how people are talking. If it's such a big deal they should go sit in the quiet section where it's dead silent.
For example, where I am, the entire second floor of our med school library is the quiet floor, plus there's lots of extra private rooms if you need extra special silence. So if you're sitting on the first floor on the 3 tables there that AREN'T in a quiet area, you have NO RIGHT to whine about other people talking, because there are just so many more areas that are quiet that you could have gone to.
And at the undergraduate library, the main seating section on the first floor is the silent study area that's dead silent, whereas if you go into the basement it's the non-silent area.
You can't hear the sound from the other floor because they're separated pretty well, so honestly if you're sitting in the non-quiet area and whining, you're just being a jerk because you're purposely putting yourself in a noisy area then whining about it (plus you can't even enter the basement directly, so in order to sit there you'd have to walk PAST the quiet area in that library).
Edit: I think maybe there was some misunderstanding, since I know at the medical school library at my undergrad school there wasn't any sort of separation at all-so every area was for quiet study. But at some schools the libraries have areas that are for the people who need quiet to study, and then there's an area where you don't have to be quiet. And the OP was complaining about people sitting in the non-quiet areas of the libraries with such a separation.
BTW, I usually study in the quiet area myself, and it sometimes annoys me when people have non-stop whispered conversations right next to me, so it's not like I'm a huge fan of noisiness, but it's equally obnoxious when you've purposely put yourself in the noisy area so you can group study and some ***** starts whining about how you're talking when they can walk up a flight of stairs and be in a dead silent area.
