Cell phone use in the libraries

This policy is to ensure that you are not disturbing others with your conversation. Even short conversations can distract the others working around you. 

Please follow our recommendations of appropirate places to talk on your phone.  Although you may not realize it, stairwells and bathrooms are echo chambers and will amplify your voice throughout the area.

In OSF:

• Limit cell phone use to the lobby area just before you enter the library.
• Once inside the library, please do not use your cell phone. 
• Do not use cell phones in the bathrooms.

In Keffer:

• Brief phone calls (under 2 minutes) may be placed or taken in the library; please move away from the computers and study areas as a courtesy to others. 
• Step outside of the library into the second floor public area for lengthy or animated phone calls.

In Ireland:

• Limit cell phone use to the lobby area at the entry, in front of the circulation desk or lounge, or in the lower level group study.
• Once in Reference Room or library stacks or study carrels, please do not use your cell phone.