Draft 2
Humans associate university libraries with a dark, gloomy, mysterious, forbidden buildings including collections of reading, listening and film materials for mostly scientific purposes. Freshmen students tend to share these opinions after being informed about some unfriendly, ignorant, cannibalistic librarians and huge buildings full of thousands of books which smell musty. If pupils cannot put off their registration at university libraries any longer, they gave up their prejudice immediately and consider libraries as places where useful experiences may be gained. After awhile pupils -having a slight scoliosis and glasses- begin to speculate how a better university library looks like. In their day-dreams a picture of a comfortable, interesting and more profitable university library appears which does not take after their one at all. The imagined library provides with better conditions in reading materials and equipment which students need for being able to make themselves at home.
One important feature of the fancied university library is that there is a huge increase in the number of available copies. This growth is meant to extend the rental time for months, which helps students give themselves up entirely to their studies. Additionally, parallel with the expansion of transcripts, the essential of a reading room declines very rapidly. Yet, there is a need for leaving some facsimiles in the reading section for pupils who are devoted to investigate on the premises for exceptional motives. Often, it is the hope for coming across a lover or a friend which fasten scholars to chairs in this room. By installing more dozens of computers, students can manage to receive their missing information or whole reading materials on screen much more easily. If someone is short of knowledge about word-processor, with the help of some well qualified, amicable and not cannibal reference librarians he or she can get the required database without endangering his or her health. Inspite of the fact that there is a great stress on computer work in this university library, paper catalogue which is indispensable for technologically unskilled pupils and tutors does not disappear, proving that an imagined university library supplies its readers without exception.
Besides making an effort to suiting the requirements for reading materials, a pictured university library tries to create comfortable and healthy surroundings for its readers. Comfort is a pressing obligation mainly for learners who spend all days, generally in the exam period so that they consider university library as their second home. Nevertheless, there are some building regulations which are very strict about the cleanness, lighting, temperature in a library is needed. After obeying such commandments, librarians can set out to add some defectives to transform university library into a home-like building. In an imagined library all disadvantageous, gloomy surfaces are made to disappear by decorating walls with some maps, paintings, pictures and floors are covered with wall to wall carpets. However, chairs and desks with lamps for each individual are chosen with a view to convenience and health in order to stop students’ sight and conditions to fail any more.
Desire for making an idealistic university library useful for both librarians and readers can be realised in the inner construction, as well. Each part of the library is separated spectacularly from the rest by placing on different floors. Following this pattern, each floor is designed for one specific section which is shown on a well visible board at the entrance on the first floor. Apart from such a panel, a lot of cardinal units can be hit upon persons entering the university library: stores, registration counter, cloakroom, buffet provides with eating, chatting and perhaps playing possibilities and a créche for readers’ children. Thinking about physically handicapped people, two floors are connected with a staircase and elevator, as well. On the second floor the borrowing section makes its readers gape with hundreds of bookshelves, and dozens of librarians who are working rapidly to bypass queuing up. The third floor gives place to a reading-room, computer-room, some researching rooms with well-trained experts. At last, offices and rooms for listening and watching opportunities are discovered to compensate those scholars who are willing to climb up to the top floor.
A really good imaginative university library endeavours to attract students and teachers by providing some extra services for them. Caring for starving pupils, fantasised libraries run cheap restaurants serving delicious food and give students some opportunities to make friends, talk to each other. Students either after filled with energy in the restaurant or getting bored with studies, can afford to have a nap in cosy beds in a large dormitory receiving pyjamas and bedding. It is useful to set up such a dormitory since nodding off on desks might entice the others to follow this example. For the shake of those students who want to get ride of their sleeping-sickness in another way, there were gymnasiums set up in each idealised library. After doing some sport activities and taking showers, scholars get refreshed and feel urge to return to their studies.
Fancied university libraries are trying their best to create a friendly picture of themselves towards students and teachers, as well. For developing such an image, besides expanding the number of their materials by purchasing or gaining them throughout interlibrary loan, these libraries are keen on create comfortable surroundings to their readers. Not only comfortable chairs make readers feel comfort, but stopping queuing up, expanding the rental time can also give good feelings to students. Usefulness of such university libraries are measured in both students’ brains and their bodies if all idealised universities recognise the importance of gymnasiums in their library buildings. These are created libraries but after a period of time they will come true, mainly in case of those libraries which are already in connection with other institutions or which can afford to supplement there services. Students living now have to be satisfied with the present-day version and just can hope for this idealised one.
Showing posts with label libraries. Show all posts
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Tuesday, May 8, 2007
W 069 F
Draft 2
Entering a university means that a student has decided to spend 4-6 more years on studying. That is to say he/she will have to take examinations, write tests, prepare reports and even carry out researches. Students have to make it clear that at university level studying may sometimes be harder than it was at secondary level and may need to acquire deeper knowledge. Ways of preparation and studying differ from one student to the other; some like learning at home, others prefer studying outdoors. Ninety per cent of the students of Janus Pannonius University however, frequent its library, and about 1/3rd of them use it not only for loaning but also for studying there regularly. This indicates that students like to work at such a library. This paper intends to introduce freshmen students the ways of studying at a university library in order to be successful at the examinations, to be effective when making reports, to acquire thorough knowledge, to become objective and critical.
A student once having his/her assignment in mind has to decide where and how to get along with it. One side of fruitful studying at a library is the selection of the one that is the most preferable for an undergraduate: this is a university library. Every freshman, at least once, should choose and try such a place for studying, for quite a few reasons. Here he/she can find the necessary books and lecture notes, and not only one copy of them but several; furthermore the most frequently used ones are always put in the reading room. University library tries to adjust its opening hours to the students. It is very advantageous that they are open from 8 to 20 o’clock during the term, while in the examination season from 8 to 22 o'clock. University library is usually free to enter for students. Therefore there are some, usually experienced, graduates who not only come to study but also to economise on heat and light at home.
After a freshman has chosen the place, he/she has to clarify that he/she is to study there, that he/she has the adequate time for that as well as the resolution, intention and will to do so. As a next step an undergraduate should gather all utensils for work: reader's ticket, purse, a pack of tissue papers or a handkerchief, pens, pencils in different colours, eraser, small pieces of paper for notes, normal-size sheets of paper, marker and his/her own books. Equipped with this, a student has to find a nook that is calm, not cold, where light conditions are adequate, and around which other students are also dealing with their reading. Once become tired and exhausted, freshmen should have a rest, a short break. They may go to the buffet and buy a cup of coffee, a bar of chocolate or a sandwich; take a walk; read a magazine or a newspaper; listen to song in the music room; have a little chat with friends. After the refreshment students should return to their readings.
Effective learning is only one aspect of studying at a university library; the other is the all-rounded, thorough preparation. It happens every now and then that a student while learning about a certain topic, finds that not every part of his/her reading is well or fully examined or supported. And on the other hand ideas and pieces of information may turn out to be new, original, strange or unknown from one angle of vision to the other. In such cases university library is the ideal place to work at. While studying there, an undergraduate may come across his/her student fellows with whom he/she can discuss the problematic parts of the learning material, or even professors and tutors who probably help too in giving guidance, hints for further reading. At a university library students could have the chance to read old and rare books, to use curios, to find sources for further reading. In order to get these documents and pieces of work an undergraduate may use the various types of catalogues on his/her own, or ask the help of the librarians. They are almost always willing to assist anyone. A freshman may get the required books right from the bookshelves or from the store, by filling out a form of store-requiring. It may occur that university library does not have the needed documents. In such cases an inter-library loan can be demanded. Freshmen have to make contact to the responsible librarian in the library and give him/her the data of the book (the title, the year and place of publication, the editor's name, if there is any). A student may acquire the material from a library of the particular country he/she is staying at, or from abroad. Once an undergraduate actually takes the time to search for sources, studies, and to examine the thesis from different points of view, he/she will surely turn out to be an open-minded person with critical an objective sense.
Students who go to the library, either to study there or just to read the material the professor had left there at their disposal, will hopefully realise that it is worth working at a university library. By studying there, undergraduates can become accustomed to disposing their time well (since they only have the opening hours for studying); to setting up an order of importance of tasks; and getting along with their studies effectively, thoroughly and with a more critical and objective sense than before. Freshmen would make up their minds to study there frequently if they can finish with their assignment in time; if they are satisfied with their taking efforts; if they enjoy working there; and if they feel inspired to study at a university library.
Entering a university means that a student has decided to spend 4-6 more years on studying. That is to say he/she will have to take examinations, write tests, prepare reports and even carry out researches. Students have to make it clear that at university level studying may sometimes be harder than it was at secondary level and may need to acquire deeper knowledge. Ways of preparation and studying differ from one student to the other; some like learning at home, others prefer studying outdoors. Ninety per cent of the students of Janus Pannonius University however, frequent its library, and about 1/3rd of them use it not only for loaning but also for studying there regularly. This indicates that students like to work at such a library. This paper intends to introduce freshmen students the ways of studying at a university library in order to be successful at the examinations, to be effective when making reports, to acquire thorough knowledge, to become objective and critical.
A student once having his/her assignment in mind has to decide where and how to get along with it. One side of fruitful studying at a library is the selection of the one that is the most preferable for an undergraduate: this is a university library. Every freshman, at least once, should choose and try such a place for studying, for quite a few reasons. Here he/she can find the necessary books and lecture notes, and not only one copy of them but several; furthermore the most frequently used ones are always put in the reading room. University library tries to adjust its opening hours to the students. It is very advantageous that they are open from 8 to 20 o’clock during the term, while in the examination season from 8 to 22 o'clock. University library is usually free to enter for students. Therefore there are some, usually experienced, graduates who not only come to study but also to economise on heat and light at home.
After a freshman has chosen the place, he/she has to clarify that he/she is to study there, that he/she has the adequate time for that as well as the resolution, intention and will to do so. As a next step an undergraduate should gather all utensils for work: reader's ticket, purse, a pack of tissue papers or a handkerchief, pens, pencils in different colours, eraser, small pieces of paper for notes, normal-size sheets of paper, marker and his/her own books. Equipped with this, a student has to find a nook that is calm, not cold, where light conditions are adequate, and around which other students are also dealing with their reading. Once become tired and exhausted, freshmen should have a rest, a short break. They may go to the buffet and buy a cup of coffee, a bar of chocolate or a sandwich; take a walk; read a magazine or a newspaper; listen to song in the music room; have a little chat with friends. After the refreshment students should return to their readings.
Effective learning is only one aspect of studying at a university library; the other is the all-rounded, thorough preparation. It happens every now and then that a student while learning about a certain topic, finds that not every part of his/her reading is well or fully examined or supported. And on the other hand ideas and pieces of information may turn out to be new, original, strange or unknown from one angle of vision to the other. In such cases university library is the ideal place to work at. While studying there, an undergraduate may come across his/her student fellows with whom he/she can discuss the problematic parts of the learning material, or even professors and tutors who probably help too in giving guidance, hints for further reading. At a university library students could have the chance to read old and rare books, to use curios, to find sources for further reading. In order to get these documents and pieces of work an undergraduate may use the various types of catalogues on his/her own, or ask the help of the librarians. They are almost always willing to assist anyone. A freshman may get the required books right from the bookshelves or from the store, by filling out a form of store-requiring. It may occur that university library does not have the needed documents. In such cases an inter-library loan can be demanded. Freshmen have to make contact to the responsible librarian in the library and give him/her the data of the book (the title, the year and place of publication, the editor's name, if there is any). A student may acquire the material from a library of the particular country he/she is staying at, or from abroad. Once an undergraduate actually takes the time to search for sources, studies, and to examine the thesis from different points of view, he/she will surely turn out to be an open-minded person with critical an objective sense.
Students who go to the library, either to study there or just to read the material the professor had left there at their disposal, will hopefully realise that it is worth working at a university library. By studying there, undergraduates can become accustomed to disposing their time well (since they only have the opening hours for studying); to setting up an order of importance of tasks; and getting along with their studies effectively, thoroughly and with a more critical and objective sense than before. Freshmen would make up their minds to study there frequently if they can finish with their assignment in time; if they are satisfied with their taking efforts; if they enjoy working there; and if they feel inspired to study at a university library.
W 050 F
Draft 2
Eating in a university library is impolite and rude to the visitors of the library as well as to culture, because it degrades studying and reading to the state of a pastime activity done during eating and also degrades library to the state of a snack bar or a café. It is impolite to the visitors who want to devote their full attention to reading and do not want to be disturbed by other students' gobbling. It is also inconsiderate because visitors of a university library can possibly be as hungry as the one who is having food there but can stand eating because they have respect for the unwritten (and sometimes written) habits and rules of libraries. Considering this, eating in a library can only be accepted and tolerated in one case, when a student cannot postpone reading in the library at any cost, but would not survive without having some victual at the same time. But even in that case, the action has to be carefully planned and carried out. This paper will give some useful and practical advice how to avoid being impolite when eating at a university library.
Preparation for having food in a library is an important step. The golden rule is that a student should only eat the amount of food in a library that prevents him from starving, until he has time to have a meal in an adequate place. Ignoring the basic politeness rule in a library and behaving in the place as if it was a snack bar: having three courses from soup in plastic glass to begin with to a coffee at the end with a hamburger with mustard and ketchup in between, that is getting to the library packed up with food and then eating ravenously all the time there can extremely disgust people in any library. Moreover, selecting of food is significant. Fatty, creamy and crumbly food like pizza and chocolate cake should be avoided, because they can make the furniture and floor of the library as well as books filthy easily. Furthermore, especially crunchy snacks have to be refrained from because of the noise one can make eating them. Good choices can be some chocolate, a banana, an apple, a home-made sandwich, biscuits or a croissant, because the are easy to handle, do not make filth and can be eaten relatively quietly. When going to the library with some food to eat there, one should make sure that he has a paper napkin and a plastic or paper beg to put refuse in it on him.
Entering the library the food should be hidden properly among papers or in a pocket - especially when a written sign forbids eating there. It is not a wise idea to go to a library with nothing else but a sandwich in one’s hands. Following this, the place to sit has to be carefully chosen. The ideal location for a student who wants to read and eat at the same time is the remotest chair and table, preferably one that is located so that the student can sit with his back to the others in the room. If there is no free place like that, one should sit with nobody on his sides and in front of him at least. This is weighty because seeing and hearing the chewing of an other student when one is trying to concentrate on what he is reading or studying, and maybe on forgetting his hunger as well because he did not want to bring food to the library, can be utmostly annoying.
There can be huge differences in the way of eating the food, that matters as well. Biting small morsels, instead of having tremendous bites that can hardly be chewed and swallowed, can prevent noisy grinding. That is also true that the smaller movement of the mouth because of the smaller bite, the harder it can be seen that one is eating. During consuming, special attention should be paid to taking care of books or any paper and of furniture. One should clean his hands with the paper napkin he brought every time before touching a book he is reading or studying from, and should be careful not to put books to any filth he may have made on the table.
After finishing eating, the refuse - banana skin, chocolate or biscuit paper and napkins - has to be put to the bag the student has cautiously brought with him. If the food that has been eaten has left crumbles, those certainly has to be cleaned up. Leaving the library being prepared for the following lesson and with suppressed hunger, one should not forget taking the refuse-beg with him. But the satisfaction that he feels over managing the difficult task of carrying out devouring and being in a library parallely, and still be reasonably polite, should not be stronger than the abstention from doing that again.
Consequently the action of eating itself is not the only important matter to consider in connection with the practise of eating in a university library if one wants to be relatively polite in a basically impolite situation. For the reason that a sensible university student, who feels respect for the abstract idea of culture and for people who are doing scientific work around him, may have scruples about eating in a library; besides preparation, proper and careful selecting of food, choosing place and cleaning after eating, a sufficient reason for eating there is needed beforehand - although probably not asked by anyone - if not for anything else then for the sake of conscience.
Eating in a university library is impolite and rude to the visitors of the library as well as to culture, because it degrades studying and reading to the state of a pastime activity done during eating and also degrades library to the state of a snack bar or a café. It is impolite to the visitors who want to devote their full attention to reading and do not want to be disturbed by other students' gobbling. It is also inconsiderate because visitors of a university library can possibly be as hungry as the one who is having food there but can stand eating because they have respect for the unwritten (and sometimes written) habits and rules of libraries. Considering this, eating in a library can only be accepted and tolerated in one case, when a student cannot postpone reading in the library at any cost, but would not survive without having some victual at the same time. But even in that case, the action has to be carefully planned and carried out. This paper will give some useful and practical advice how to avoid being impolite when eating at a university library.
Preparation for having food in a library is an important step. The golden rule is that a student should only eat the amount of food in a library that prevents him from starving, until he has time to have a meal in an adequate place. Ignoring the basic politeness rule in a library and behaving in the place as if it was a snack bar: having three courses from soup in plastic glass to begin with to a coffee at the end with a hamburger with mustard and ketchup in between, that is getting to the library packed up with food and then eating ravenously all the time there can extremely disgust people in any library. Moreover, selecting of food is significant. Fatty, creamy and crumbly food like pizza and chocolate cake should be avoided, because they can make the furniture and floor of the library as well as books filthy easily. Furthermore, especially crunchy snacks have to be refrained from because of the noise one can make eating them. Good choices can be some chocolate, a banana, an apple, a home-made sandwich, biscuits or a croissant, because the are easy to handle, do not make filth and can be eaten relatively quietly. When going to the library with some food to eat there, one should make sure that he has a paper napkin and a plastic or paper beg to put refuse in it on him.
Entering the library the food should be hidden properly among papers or in a pocket - especially when a written sign forbids eating there. It is not a wise idea to go to a library with nothing else but a sandwich in one’s hands. Following this, the place to sit has to be carefully chosen. The ideal location for a student who wants to read and eat at the same time is the remotest chair and table, preferably one that is located so that the student can sit with his back to the others in the room. If there is no free place like that, one should sit with nobody on his sides and in front of him at least. This is weighty because seeing and hearing the chewing of an other student when one is trying to concentrate on what he is reading or studying, and maybe on forgetting his hunger as well because he did not want to bring food to the library, can be utmostly annoying.
There can be huge differences in the way of eating the food, that matters as well. Biting small morsels, instead of having tremendous bites that can hardly be chewed and swallowed, can prevent noisy grinding. That is also true that the smaller movement of the mouth because of the smaller bite, the harder it can be seen that one is eating. During consuming, special attention should be paid to taking care of books or any paper and of furniture. One should clean his hands with the paper napkin he brought every time before touching a book he is reading or studying from, and should be careful not to put books to any filth he may have made on the table.
After finishing eating, the refuse - banana skin, chocolate or biscuit paper and napkins - has to be put to the bag the student has cautiously brought with him. If the food that has been eaten has left crumbles, those certainly has to be cleaned up. Leaving the library being prepared for the following lesson and with suppressed hunger, one should not forget taking the refuse-beg with him. But the satisfaction that he feels over managing the difficult task of carrying out devouring and being in a library parallely, and still be reasonably polite, should not be stronger than the abstention from doing that again.
Consequently the action of eating itself is not the only important matter to consider in connection with the practise of eating in a university library if one wants to be relatively polite in a basically impolite situation. For the reason that a sensible university student, who feels respect for the abstract idea of culture and for people who are doing scientific work around him, may have scruples about eating in a library; besides preparation, proper and careful selecting of food, choosing place and cleaning after eating, a sufficient reason for eating there is needed beforehand - although probably not asked by anyone - if not for anything else then for the sake of conscience.
W 043 F
Draft 2
Scientific researches prove that eating some kinds of food, for example, apple, chocolate and so on stimulates the brain and helps in study by activating the mental energy supply. Sitting for long hours in the library closely appartains to university life. There is a rule that eating and drinking is forbidden in libraries. Although it is, some poor students try to sniggle foods or drinks into the library because after sitting out some back-breaker lectures they are hungry and have rarely enough time to have lunch or just bolt a sandwich before going to the library. They may find themselves in embarrassing situations when librarians catch them. This work will show methods on how to eat remaining unnoticed in libraries besides "devouring the books".
Preparations at home or in the dormitory are essential. The dressing, the clothes have to be appropriate for carry off the action. It is not difficult to hide a chewing-gum or a little piece of chocolate in the hip-pocket, but a sandwich or a banana will not go in. At this point students have to face a difficulty. When they arrive at the library together with their coats they have to leave their bags at the cloakroom, which raises the problem of how to take in bigger cribs. I would reccommend them to dress in loose-fitting shirts or pullovers under which a sandwich or a pocket of biscuits can be hidden.
After getting in to the library without any failure it is lucky to find a place to sit where it is easy to be unobserved. For example behind a shelf or a bookcase. If there are not such places students must be careful while eating.
I would like to give some advice relating directly to the whole process of eating. It is unfortunate to eat candies from rustling pockets or paper-bags, because it may disturb the other students. Preparing at home students often make sandwiches and think they will not make any noise. But biting into it in the library there can be a great surprise. It is that the pepper can make enough noise that make everybody see towards the source of it. In this case I suggest students that they pretend innocence, put face surprised at how people can be so audacious that they make noise in a library, and look around searching for the committer. Or there is an other way students can make the noise not to be heard. If someone wants to pick a candy out of a pocket, it can be silenced by pretending a sneeze. Students also like to manducate when they study over their books. It fits to the place if it is not noisy.
This paragraph is a piece that would be entitled "How Not to Eat in a Library". One's eating habits influence the picture about one's personality, so munching is always disgusting and make one's character repulsive. It is true particularly in libraries where every student is engrossed in their studies and works, and a noisy chewing is not just disturbing but foul. So it is out of place to munch there. There are other antipathetic ways of behaviour in connection with eating. If someone eats meals that sit heavy on the stomach the result is not nice at all. I refer to the belching. Students have to accomodate to each other in libraries, so these noises are not likable there. Gormandizing is not attractive, either. My advice is that students chew every single bit well, because if they do so it does not make noise and it is healthy. Light foods such as fruits, biscuits, rolls, buns, cakes are likely to be recommended in places like libraries.
In this part I will show further advice, examples, solutions or tricks about how to eat and how to pretend not eating in libraries. For being safe that they will not be caught students should pay attention to the finish of taking a meal. Mouth and face must not be smudged with jam, fat or butter, and morsels must not be left there because it will reveal the fact of eating. And of course students should clear away their leavings, crumbs, serviettes or drops of drinks dribbled onto the table, the chair or the carpet. Although this writing is mainly about eating I would give just a little piece of advice for those students who after finishing the meal want to drink as well. They do it because they always do so at home or they just want a rinse after meal. They have to be watchful when they drink, because it is difficult to cover up the tracks, for example if a cup of black coffee has been spilt. In this case perpetrators can not conceal their identities, and they are sure to be caught. There were some scandalous cases that the librarians have informed me about here at Janus Pannonius University. The most memorable one is that some illuminated boys stayed at the library, but one of the librarians noticed their rather big bottle of wine under a desk and these boys were expelled from the library for ever.
I gave my pieces of advice to show that it can be avoided that students get in a situation like that. I dared write down my suggestions because they are based on my personal succesful experiences. I hope I could help the poor hungry students who want to go on eating in the library but did not have the courage to do it. If someone in spite of my advice is not able to eat in a library, he or she is not enough hungry or not enough good at tricks. Otherwise it would be more friendly if it was not forbidden to eat in university libraries, or foods and drinks could be bought at the entrance. From the earnings librarians could get more salary, and they would not be angry about hungry students like now.
Scientific researches prove that eating some kinds of food, for example, apple, chocolate and so on stimulates the brain and helps in study by activating the mental energy supply. Sitting for long hours in the library closely appartains to university life. There is a rule that eating and drinking is forbidden in libraries. Although it is, some poor students try to sniggle foods or drinks into the library because after sitting out some back-breaker lectures they are hungry and have rarely enough time to have lunch or just bolt a sandwich before going to the library. They may find themselves in embarrassing situations when librarians catch them. This work will show methods on how to eat remaining unnoticed in libraries besides "devouring the books".
Preparations at home or in the dormitory are essential. The dressing, the clothes have to be appropriate for carry off the action. It is not difficult to hide a chewing-gum or a little piece of chocolate in the hip-pocket, but a sandwich or a banana will not go in. At this point students have to face a difficulty. When they arrive at the library together with their coats they have to leave their bags at the cloakroom, which raises the problem of how to take in bigger cribs. I would reccommend them to dress in loose-fitting shirts or pullovers under which a sandwich or a pocket of biscuits can be hidden.
After getting in to the library without any failure it is lucky to find a place to sit where it is easy to be unobserved. For example behind a shelf or a bookcase. If there are not such places students must be careful while eating.
I would like to give some advice relating directly to the whole process of eating. It is unfortunate to eat candies from rustling pockets or paper-bags, because it may disturb the other students. Preparing at home students often make sandwiches and think they will not make any noise. But biting into it in the library there can be a great surprise. It is that the pepper can make enough noise that make everybody see towards the source of it. In this case I suggest students that they pretend innocence, put face surprised at how people can be so audacious that they make noise in a library, and look around searching for the committer. Or there is an other way students can make the noise not to be heard. If someone wants to pick a candy out of a pocket, it can be silenced by pretending a sneeze. Students also like to manducate when they study over their books. It fits to the place if it is not noisy.
This paragraph is a piece that would be entitled "How Not to Eat in a Library". One's eating habits influence the picture about one's personality, so munching is always disgusting and make one's character repulsive. It is true particularly in libraries where every student is engrossed in their studies and works, and a noisy chewing is not just disturbing but foul. So it is out of place to munch there. There are other antipathetic ways of behaviour in connection with eating. If someone eats meals that sit heavy on the stomach the result is not nice at all. I refer to the belching. Students have to accomodate to each other in libraries, so these noises are not likable there. Gormandizing is not attractive, either. My advice is that students chew every single bit well, because if they do so it does not make noise and it is healthy. Light foods such as fruits, biscuits, rolls, buns, cakes are likely to be recommended in places like libraries.
In this part I will show further advice, examples, solutions or tricks about how to eat and how to pretend not eating in libraries. For being safe that they will not be caught students should pay attention to the finish of taking a meal. Mouth and face must not be smudged with jam, fat or butter, and morsels must not be left there because it will reveal the fact of eating. And of course students should clear away their leavings, crumbs, serviettes or drops of drinks dribbled onto the table, the chair or the carpet. Although this writing is mainly about eating I would give just a little piece of advice for those students who after finishing the meal want to drink as well. They do it because they always do so at home or they just want a rinse after meal. They have to be watchful when they drink, because it is difficult to cover up the tracks, for example if a cup of black coffee has been spilt. In this case perpetrators can not conceal their identities, and they are sure to be caught. There were some scandalous cases that the librarians have informed me about here at Janus Pannonius University. The most memorable one is that some illuminated boys stayed at the library, but one of the librarians noticed their rather big bottle of wine under a desk and these boys were expelled from the library for ever.
I gave my pieces of advice to show that it can be avoided that students get in a situation like that. I dared write down my suggestions because they are based on my personal succesful experiences. I hope I could help the poor hungry students who want to go on eating in the library but did not have the courage to do it. If someone in spite of my advice is not able to eat in a library, he or she is not enough hungry or not enough good at tricks. Otherwise it would be more friendly if it was not forbidden to eat in university libraries, or foods and drinks could be bought at the entrance. From the earnings librarians could get more salary, and they would not be angry about hungry students like now.
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