Re: [tlug] Wifi hotspot access in Tokyo

[Raymond Wan <rwan.kyoto@example.com>]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Jean-Christian Imbeault
<jc.imbeault@example.com> wrote:
> Stephen J. Turnbull writes:
>
>> In other words, a library is like a movie theater, for entertainment
>> only?  Studying and taking notes, computing examples, crossreferencing
>> to web resources not allowed?
>
> I agree but I can see how this policy might have come about. One person
> with an awfully loud clackity-clack typing style? We have one person at my
> office some have nicknamed 'The Woodpecker' ... so I know how bad it can
> get and would definitely not want that person typing in a library.
>
> It would make more sense to just warn library users if they were being
> noisy instead of a blanket policy to ban all computer use though.


Giving that there is also the association in Japan between tattoos and
saunas...in a way, I am not surprised of such a blanket policy...  :-)

Ray