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Detailed Information
- Place Types Library
- Address 10 Portugal St, Holborn, London WC2A 2HD, UK
- Coordinate 51.5146729,-0.1157158
- Website http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/
- Rating 3.9
- Compound Code GV7M+VP London, UK
Openning hours
- Monday 8:00 AM – 10:00 PM
- Tuesday 8:00 AM – 10:00 PM
- Wednesday 8:00 AM – 10:00 PM
- Thursday 8:00 AM – 10:00 PM
- Friday 8:00 AM – 10:00 PM
- Saturday 8:00 AM – 10:00 PM
- Sunday 8:00 AM – 10:00 PM
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Reviews
Nice, quiet and professional place to study. Good COVID measures put in place. 100% would recommend especially for students.
Contrary to some of the other reviews, I found this a wonderful place to study, and the building itself is quite comfortable to spend the countless hours needed to do well at this university.
More of a creche than a library. There is a constant hum of indolent weirdos having full voiced conversations. Many seem to have forgotten that the proper place to socialise is a pub, and instead take to this library to broadcast their inane chatterings to literally every corner of the building. Some even waft in between the bookcases having social calls on their phones, as if they are in a weird music video in which no one else is actually conscious. As a consequence, your best bet for getting any work done is to use noise cancelling headphones, as if you're the one acting unreasonably expecting a library to be quiet. Incredibly strange. People need to have words with themselves.
It’s beautiful from an architectural perspective but that’s the extend of the positive things I can say about it as a LSE student.
The library has awful seating arrangements, with too much space wasted for a spiral stairway that is uncomfortable to walk on because it doesn’t reflect normal strides (I.e. you have to take weird strides to go down the stairs, swapping between single and double steps). There is insufficient studying space and the air feels very stale. Not all desks have outlets so it can be a bit of a hunger game to find one that does.
Overall, there are much better places to study and the library is ill-suited for purpose.
Extreme poor use of space. The purpose of a university library is to provide study spaces for students. The spiraling staircases are not only a waste of space but also make the journey upward unnecessarily difficult and time wasting. Just imagine how much more spaces we would have if the architect’s main focus was actually on the utility of the structure.
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