It's a beautiful winter's morning, the last day of week eight and I'm back to the Sidgwick site for a trip to the English library, another of the history faculty's neighbours.
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| Everything's so square and rectangular |
To be blunt, the English faculty looks like it's made out of lego. It's essentially a big orangey rectangle, which stands out among the architects playground of the Sidgwick Site purely for it's apparent lack of imagination.
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| Lego? |
It was only when I entered that I realised just how uncultured my comments were. Apparently, it won the '2005 building of the year' competition. I can only wonder what the other entries were...
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| I think this might be serious, but it seems a bit sarcastic. |
The reception had festive decorations up, and the staff were very friendly. I immediately warm to any library that has fairy lights and Christmas trees.
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| Pretty fairy lights! |
Most importantly, there are beanbags in the English library. Actual beanbags. Brilliant. I didn't sit on them because I was already nodding at a desk and lying on a beanbag would have had disastrous consequences for my work rate.
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| Real beanbags, in a university library |
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| This library had gone for practical yet stylish white rectangular shelves. |
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| There's even a helpful stepladder in case you want a book from a high shelf |
I was a little bit surprised by how small the library seemed to be. This might have been partly due to the layout. There were not vast rows of desks, but rather a few groups of tables either side of the bookshelves, with smaller individual desks upstairs. It somehow manages to be both cosy and airy at the same time.
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| Artwork on the walls, airy desk spaces |
9/10 - Nice desks, friendly librarians and BEANBAGS
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| Finally, a legal case for nominative determinism |
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