I have a problem,

[3rdragon]

And this problem is that my library hours have gotten too popular.

My library hours are Order of the Phoenix - writing club. I've always intended them to be a quiet space for people to do writing or academic work. For the past two weeks there have been lots of people and lots of noise and I've gotten very little work done. I don't work particularly well when there's lots of stuff going on, and I don't think that most of the other people present are getting much work done, either.

I don't want to be a tyrant and enforce silence in my library hours, or say that everyone has to be writing, but the fact is that my library hours have gotten so exuberant that they don't really accomplish their original purpose any more. I don't have so many hours in my week that I can spend two of them feeling frustrated because I didn't accomplish the things that I wanted to get done.

Probably the long-term solution is to not have evening library hours, but this is literally the only time I reliably have free this semester, so I can't exactly change them.

Suggestions?

Comments

[tigerlofu.livejournal.com]

Could you say that the main room is for people who are going to be writing and stuffs and others can hang out in the other room?

[catsprite.livejournal.com]

There was a game going on in the other room.

I do think it would be okay for you to tell people to STFU or GTFO, really. I wouldn't have taken it personally.

[3rdragon]

I don't like kicking people out. But perhaps that's what I need to do.