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Re: cell phone use in Archives Research Rooms



I'd also like to ban those little tunes that laptop computers play every
time they're turned on in our reading room.  It happens so often these
days that I'd like to prohibit them as well.  Can they be turned
off?  Down?

Sylvia Bugbee
Special Collections
University of Vermont

On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Russell Baker wrote:

> Thanks.
>
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> Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 3:06 PM
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> Subject: Re: cell phone use in Archives Research Rooms
>
>
>     At the Birmingham Public Library we banned cell phone use in the
> Archives. Our Reading Room guidelines state, "Turn off or mute cellular
> telephones and pagers. Do not use cellular telephones in the Reading Room."
> And because we had people walking in the door talking on the things we  put
> a sign on the Reading Room door that says "No Cellular Phones Please."  On
> those few occasions when a researcher "forgets" and starts using the phone
> anyway a staff member simply walks up and politely interrupts them and asks
> them to step outside.
>     This policy has been in place for almost a year and no one has
> complained. I think that, on some level, many people know that they are
> being disruptive and rude by using cell phones in inappropriate places. I
> think they just choose to do it anyway.
>
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