{"id":2069,"date":"2012-04-25T15:31:31","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T19:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/?p=2069"},"modified":"2012-04-25T15:31:31","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T19:31:31","slug":"youre-only-young-once","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/25\/youre-only-young-once\/","title":{"rendered":"you&#8217;re only young once"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m taking some reassigned time this afternoon. I had a presentation to give in the morning and have a meeting at 5pm, both in Manhattan, and it just seemed silly to go back to Brooklyn. So I&#8217;m camped out at the library at the CUNY Graduate Center trying to wrangle a couple of things: a conference proposal (or 2), my plans for the summer (putting in for lots of RT so my partner in crime + I can write a book about <a href=\"http:\/\/ushep.commons.gc.cuny.edu\">this<\/a>), and cleaning up some stuff around said research project (my kingdom for consistent filenames!).<\/p>\n<p>I spend most of my library time in my workplace. We have about 16K students at my college in a space designed for much, much, fewer, and with little in the way of student lounge areas on campus (and no official student center) things can get a tad noisy, to say the least. Realistically, I don&#8217;t think this is unusual even for college libraries that are larger than ours.<\/p>\n<p>But here I am at a library which caters specifically to graduate students and faculty, and you know what? While it&#8217;s not nearly as loud as MPOW, I&#8217;m frankly surprised by the number of folks I&#8217;ve encountered chatting to their neighbors or on their cellphones. Really? In the <em>library<\/em>??? There&#8217;s plenty of casual gathering\/chatting space in this building, too. Library voices, indeed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m taking some reassigned time this afternoon. I had a presentation to give in the morning and have a meeting at 5pm, both in Manhattan, and it just seemed silly to go back to Brooklyn. So I&#8217;m camped out at the library at the CUNY Graduate Center trying to wrangle a couple of things: a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19,30],"class_list":["post-2069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-library","tag-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2069"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2072,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069\/revisions\/2072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}