At my library, we invite mobile telephone users into our elegant and
comfortable conference room and close the door behind them. They think they
are getting the VIP treatment.
Christine Hall
Director
Alexandria Law Library
Ste LL34
520 King St
Alexandria, VA 22314
(703) 838-4077
I know this has been discussed before but our problem with cellphone users
has become increasingly worse and I am wondering if others are having the
same difficulties. Fort Worth sits on top of a huge natural gas reserve and
so our library (and the entire courthouse for that matter) has very recently
been overrun by people doing oil and gas research. They talk on their
cellphones incessantly and no amount of warning and signposting has seemed
to help. We used to allow them to keep their phones turned on in vibrate
mode but the phone conversations became so loud and annoying, we recently
posted signs tellling them to shut them off completely. Now we are fighting
with them all day long to get them to KEEP them turned off. They are
usually cooperative about turning them off but almost invariably, end up
turning them back on, sometimes within just a few minutes. I am not talking
about one or two isolated cases but more like dozens every day.
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