[Belated] DPP Day 12: Day is Donne

'Tis true that the British Library, even with the impressive glass King's Library in the centre of its main hall, doesn't really compete for elegance with the old reading room in the British Museum. Alas. On the other hand, what it lacks in antique elegance, it makes up for with efficiency and useability. Reading rooms are light and the desk space is satisfactory. Tea at the cafe is inexpensive, for tea in London. The lockers are suitably sized, and there are many of them.

By midday, these lockers are usually one long wall of flat, closed, locked doors. In the mornings and in the evenings, however, this is a more common sight: hundreds of doors ready to bear one's backpack and personal items, so that we researchers can enter the reading rooms themselves with only the barest essentials: laptop or notebook, pencil, reader card, and locker key. The ability to lock one's things away and take only what is necessary improves focus when researching--and I enjoyed the angles of the locker doors themselves.