February 25, 2019

The solitude of the library — Stabi 354/365


Mexicans aren’t used to silence, not even in a library. At the Ibero, you have a coffee shop inside (!) the library. I once went with a friend to the ITESM’s library, asked her to lower her voice as we entered, just to listening her yelling around: “We are not in Germany, here you can be as loud as you want.” German libraries, on the other hand, are as quiet as a cemetery. And still, users wear earplugs. Many get a better concentration, but I’ve many times observed that it is a response to stress (Germans being super stressed people!).



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