Noise Policy

The UC San Diego Library seeks to provide all users with a welcoming, comfortable, and safe environment promoting intellectual exploration and learning, access to well-managed and diverse library collections, and the help of knowledgeable staff. The following Library Noise Policy is intended to ensure a pleasant and productive environment for all library users.

• Excessive noise or any disruptive activity or behavior interfering with ordinary library use or operation is not permitted.
• Conversation, collaborative work, and phone conversations are permitted on Geisel's 1st and 2nd Floors.
• Geisel Floors 4 through 7 and both floors of the WongAvery Library are designated quiet study areas. Conversation, at a low volume, is permitted only in group study rooms in these areas. Phone conversations are not permitted in these areas.
• Geisel's 8^th Floor is designated for silent study. No conversation is permitted.
• When in either Library facility, phones and other electronic devices are to be set to silent/vibrate mode.
• During designated times, other areas may be designated for quiet or silent study at the Library's discretion.

Revised January 2019