1. Libraries are not for phone conversations. Please take your phone call outside. I am more concerned about my biology test than your girlfriends sisters best friends boyfriends kids teacher.
2. If it is on my desk, it is mine. Please keep your hands to yourself. Do not touch another's stuff. Nothing is worse then having to pack up and move because someone doesn't understand personal space and belongings.
3. To add to the last point, stop staring at my work. Whether your curious about the subject or you just are nosy, it does not matter. Keep your eyes to yourself as well as your hands.
4. You do not always have time to eat and do your research paper, so it is all too common to just do them at the same time. However, please keep in mind smells are also a distraction. Unless you are going to get a private room in the library, eat your excessively smelly food somewhere else.
5. For the love of all things you believe in, please do not watch porn at the library. What you do in your dorm is your business, but once you step foot in the library, you are surrounded by hundreds of fellow students. We all beg of you, watch it in your own room and not here.
6. It is very understandable that not everyone has their own computer, and sometimes you use the library computer for social media. However, laughing out loud at an excessive level at every post you see, is highly distracting and annoying.
7. Just making loud noises in general is distracting and annoying. There is no need for you to huff and puff every five minutes and you do not need to sing your favorite song out loud. All those papers you are aggressively crumbling up? Stop and go put them in the recycling bin.
8. Again with the loud noises, I understand that people can be very distracting (hence this article). However, when you blast your music so loud that the person who just walked in the door can sing the lyrics, you are a part of the distractions. I should never be able to sing the lyrics to your song when we are in the library.
9. If someone is at a desk or computer but they get up to print or go to the bathroom, DO NOT STEAL THEIR CHAIR. You see their stuff, it's not a ghost's stuff; go find your own chair.
10. I understand that the printers in the library are always busy, and there is always a long line, but please do not cut. No one enjoys waiting but we all have to, do not make us hate you because you have no manners.
11. For those of you who have free printing at their college, you know this one all too well. If you get lucky enough to find your textbook online, be courteous and print it at a time when your library isn't normally busy. Nothing is worse than having to wait in line for an hour to print just one piece of paper because the person in front of you is printing a textbook.

This is not newly found information, just common courtesy things. Do not be that person that is distracting someone from getting their school work done. If you do not take college seriously or are just trying to play around; please do not come to the library or if you have to, please make sure you get a private room. Sincerely, everyone who is actually trying to get their work done without your distractions.