We wanted to know what you called a couple of the rooms in the library, and the results are fascinating!
For the Periodical Reading Room (pictured on the bowl on the left), we got 62 total responses, including:
8 “Old pit”
7 “reading room” (includes 1 “reading room (?)”)
3 “New pit”
2 “The pit”
2 “Periodical room”
1 “Old reading room”
1 “reading pit”
1 “reading room or sometimes I just describe its location & description”
1 “periodicals”
1 “periodicals reading room”
1 “reading room/science periodicals room”
1 “the lib lounge w/o computers”
1 “the lib”
1 “that middle section of the library with the art”
1 “the middle room”
1 “center space”
1 “middle place”
1 “central library area”
1 “center reading room”
1 “nucleus”
1 “atrium”
1 “room w/ the big windows”
1 “sun room (lots of sunlight!)”
1 “the big room with the tables and skylights. new pit? old pit?”
1 “big room with the skylights”
1 “main room w/ all the sculptures”
1 “room w/ the cases”
1 “the room b4 the reading room”
1 “main room ‘big one on the left as you walk in'”
1 “the first room when you walk in”
1 “room by the entrance”
1 “glass room”
1 “chair room with high ceilings”
1 “the chairs”
1 “room with the chairs”
1 “reading lounge”
1 “open room with couches”
1 “first floor sofas”
1 “open room”
1 “where old meets new”
1 “reading corners!”
1 “scary reading room”
1 “no name for it”
1 “no set phrase”
1 “honestly have never referred to that area–never go there”
For the Reading Room (pictured on the bowl on the right), we got 67 total responses, including:
13 “New pit” (includes 3 “nüpit”)
9 “Reading Room”
8 “Computer room”
6 “Pit” or “The pit”
1 “Computer pit”
1 “Computer station”
1 “The computer area/no name”
1 “The reading room/The computers”
1 “The lib lounge w/ computers”
1 “That big open room with all the computers”
1 “Place w/ all the computers”
1 “Room w/ computers”
1 “The big computer lab”
1 “The room with the computers”
1 “Not-old computer spot”
1 “computer boi; illuminated faces woodstock”
1 “New pit or ‘the room w/ the computers on the first floor'”
1 “fancy mac room”
1 “computer area in New Library by the stairs”
1 “room with the computers that’s not North Ref. old pit? new pit?”
1 “new pit or computers”
1 “new pit or computer lab”
1 “‘the computer area in the library‘ or ‘where all the computers are'”
1 “the pit/the atrium”
1 “new pit/reading room”
1 “‘open air computer lab’ ‘the one named for Bill Gates but has Macs'”
1 “Gates reading room”
1 “fancy new spot”
1 “the way back”
1 “big room”
1 “loblob”
1 “lobbyish”
1 “heavy study place”
1 “always full”
1 “I never go in here”
And one additional response for both: “I don’t have a name for them!”