One Square Meter

For this exercise I spent around 20 minutes in one square meter of the library and fully documented my observations. The area I chose to do this in was the area surrounding the inquiries desk on the second floor as this is usually quite busy. While I was there I wrote down notes of everything I saw, heard and observed. Here are my findings: It is 2:16pm and from my position on the chair at the left of the help desk the first thing I notice is 5 students in front of me working on computers. They are spread out from each other and there is at least a space of one or two chairs between each student. This observation seems to occurred every time I have been in the library. To my right is a blonde member of staff who is speaking to a male student who appears to be quite young. I cannot fully hear the conversation between them but I catch a few words every now and again and from what I gather it seems to be about renewing a book. Behind me I see Judith the library manager walking to her office, and several other staff members working. Only two of them are conversing and the majority of noise I can hear is from students talking. There are rather a lot of students walking in and out of my frame of view. It appears to be quite busy. There are no specific smells at this point except from the Apple Tango that I am drinking that I smell each time I open the lid. I can hear typing coming from the students working across from me, and I can hear one of the printers printing someones work. My observations from this area show that it is quite busy at this time of the afternoon. This is interesting as my previous observations have been during quieter times. It is good to finally see the library working in full swing.