{"id":18429,"date":"2022-03-31T19:41:56","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T23:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=18429"},"modified":"2022-04-04T09:18:23","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T13:18:23","slug":"why-are-libraries-quiet-spaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2022\/03\/31\/why-are-libraries-quiet-spaces\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are libraries quiet spaces?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/AW03312022-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"432\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/AW03312022-1.jpg\" alt=\"Why are libraries quiet spaces?\" class=\"wp-image-18430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/AW03312022-1.jpg 432w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/AW03312022-1-300x272.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Why are libraries quiet spaces?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s a very interesting question. I think you might be interested in Matthew Battles&#8217; book Library: An Unquiet History. (O&#8217;Neill Z721 .B28 2003). You might also be interested to know that the Pew Research Center surveyed people in 2013; though the majority wanted quiet, many didn\u2019t. (<a href=\"https:\/\/pewrsr.ch\/3tYu6cm\">pewrsr.ch\/3tYu6cm<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s a very interesting question. I think you might be interested in Matthew Battles&#8217; book Library: An Unquiet History. (O&#8217;Neill Z721 .B28 2003). You might also be interested to know that the Pew Research Center surveyed people in 2013; though the majority wanted quiet, many didn\u2019t. (pewrsr.ch\/3tYu6cm)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18429"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18433,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18429\/revisions\/18433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}