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Article: The library, now with jitters
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- Press-Telegram Long Beach, CA.
- Article date:
- January 20, 2007
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LONG BEACH - College students, especially those who commute, often
require caffeine to fuel their studies.
Yet for years, the campus library - with its stringent "no food or
drink" policy - was the one place where caffeine was hard to come by.
Roman Kochan, dean of University Library at Cal State Long Beach,
began questioning the food-and-drink rule when he noticed young
people wearing CSULB sweatshirts sipping coffee while studying at a
large off-campus chain bookstore-coffee shop.
"A light bulb went off," he said. "Why not do this in the library
so we can attract students who don't normally come here with the same
type of ambience that you find in a bookstore and coffee shop?"
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