It was a Thursday afternoon when my big brother called me, quite by surprise as he rarely called me outside the lunch hour. "I need to do some research for a project," he informed me, "so why don't I pick you up at the library? Plus, you know the library far better than I would, so you can point me in the right direction."
That made sense to me, and over an hour after the end of my shift, I met Eric by the fountain in front of the library. He definitely looked like a businessman coming to a major university's library to do some research. With his polished shoes and his earth tone tie and his elegant laptop bag, he definitely looked like someone I would expect to see in a board room.
What surprised me, however, was that he would not tell me
what
he was to research for work. He would not even give me a hint about the project itself. Instead, he simply led me all the way to the top floor, and straight to one of the private study rooms.
The private study rooms were great. They were small, each having a table and six chairs so that small meetings or study sessions could take place. The walls were rather thick, as was the case throughout the rest of the library, so even if someone nearby was making a bit of noise, it would still remain quiet in the study room, which was even more important in case a rather heated debate started during a meeting or a study session. The door to each study room could lock from the inside, giving a good amount of privacy, and only library staff and security personnel could gain entry to a locked study room using one of the coveted Library Master keycards.