Please turn down the air conditioning in the libraries!! Please!
If it is t-shirt weather outside (seventies or even sixties), I don’t like having to put on a sweater to go into the library. Don’t you agree? It just makes us chilly and wastes energy, eh?
ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: Answer Person has encountered this issue before, in shivered requests in the Perkins Library Lobby book. (I.e, 3051A in 2003, http://www.lib.duke.edu/suggest/sampler2003.htm.) Unfortunately, although AP also finds the place chilly–and AP is here hours longer than the average public user–the typical 72F is within federal quidelines. Once again, we in the real world suffer the dictates of the Wizards of Washington. And, to be fair, there are those who complain that the building is too hot if it creeps up a few degrees. So, yes, AP agrees, and will pass on your comment to the building manager, but don’t hold your breath.