Yes! That's exactly the point of the main library [1]! To do other student activities is the point of the student center!
I don't understand "student centers". You'd imagine its a place to do studenting - study! Things like group projects, discussion, debates, ect.
Instead, you're quite likely to see an arcade with the latest VR consoles at the student center.
Video gaming, and the like, are activities that non-students also enjoy. Therefore, there is no reason for the university to provide them. Presumably there are arcades else where in the city.
But, call me old fashioned I guess :S
[1] The point of the library warehouse isn't to put the near long-tail a day away. It's to put the far part of long-tail a day away. The Main Library should contain most every long tail search any researcher should ever need. The warehouse, therefore, has stuff that is more likely to rot before it is cracked (great carbon sink, to boot)
If you want to argue for nap rooms, I'm all in. Let's cut the "increase our stadium" tax on tuition to fund it.
But people sleep at the library because there's no other place that will tolerate a person sleeping. Not the coffee shop, not the park, not the student center. Nor, in our very loud society, is there anywhere quiet to lay your head.
But the role of the library isn't to provide the disadvantaged (or more often than not, a person fatigued from excessive entertainment) a place to sleep. It's to provide a sanctuary for study. If you're not studying, you're occupying a (valuable) spot for others.
Note, I'm not referring to 15 min. power naps and the like.
The purpose of a library is not to have books people are sure to read, but to have references people might need. A (good) library is necessarily a long-tail institution.
The rarely touched book is a treasure. The study space a concession to the modern student body that lacks any meaningful silent space.
The student sleeping in said study area is a gross oversight by the librarian to ensure the sacrosanct space isn't violated (and, unfortunately for some of those sleeping at the library, another housing failure in S. California :S)
I don't understand "student centers". You'd imagine its a place to do studenting - study! Things like group projects, discussion, debates, ect.
Instead, you're quite likely to see an arcade with the latest VR consoles at the student center.
Video gaming, and the like, are activities that non-students also enjoy. Therefore, there is no reason for the university to provide them. Presumably there are arcades else where in the city.
But, call me old fashioned I guess :S
[1] The point of the library warehouse isn't to put the near long-tail a day away. It's to put the far part of long-tail a day away. The Main Library should contain most every long tail search any researcher should ever need. The warehouse, therefore, has stuff that is more likely to rot before it is cracked (great carbon sink, to boot)