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> The student sleeping in said study area is a gross oversight by the librarian

No, it's not, thank you very much.

Not everyone has parents who can cut a check and send them to college. Some students work their asses off to pay for it.

Those students often schedule their classes such that they all land on Monday/Wednesday or Tuesday/Thursday. Often they leave home at 6AM and finish up on campus around 9/10PM (or later if they have "group" projects that need to be worked on). There are sometimes big slack spaces in the schedule for the classes they need. Most of them do homework in those times as their time is precious.

However, if they've actually gotten everything done, the most productive thing they can generally do is sleep as it is the thing they are always short on.

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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.