spacial map.

I sketched out the first floor of the Bunch library as I sat, taking field notes.  It's amazing to see the concentration of people in the room.  In my map, X's are where people are sitting.  This obviously changed during my time spent in the library, but I marked locations at one time.  While I was there, I saw no one venture past a bookshelf.  It's like only half of the room is used: the half with computers and no books.  People were clustered around the tables with computers, though a few (including me) sat at tables in the middle of the room.  Most of these (again, including me) were on laptops.  The round tables marked 'iMacs' have no people at them, likely because, according to the blue papers taped to each, they are "Not in Use...yet! But set up is almost complete!"  It will be interesting to see if these are as popular as the older PC's, once they are up and running.

Once I draw out the physical location of people in the room, I see that the actual use of the room may not match the intended use of the room.  Yes, students are present.  But they are rarely even physically near the books that are present.  I remember one girl sitting at the table in the back of the room (top left circle on my map), but it was almost as if she was using the bookshelves as a barrier between her and the outside world.  Her defense: no one would dare get too close, for fear of touching a book when a keyboard would suffice.

My map is by no means to scale, but I did the best I could from my vantage point in the middle of the room.