Show Library Decibels Counted Noise adds a day to lessened lessened lessened les les- les- les the nations nation's payroll through I office efficiency alone according according according ac ac- ac- ac cording to an acoustics authority I IThe The University of Utah physics department cannot state how much I is lost Jost in campus offices and libraries li- li li libraries through unnecessary noise I but it can give the thc results of a sound survey surrey made in the library Decibel Defined Mr 1 J. J Irvin Swigart who made i ii the survey states that loudness is i I measured in decibels He says the decibel is tenth one-tenth of a bel which is a unit of relative loudness If you want to study go to the I Rosenbaum library There the noise level el i is is four only thirty four decibels c. c I If you ou want van to talk lalk talk go to the re re- re- re serve book rooms for there the level varies from two fifty-two to fifty- fifty I four decibels I The quietest resident non-resident location location loca loca- tion seldom has a level less than thirty-four thirty decibels The level in inthe inthe the reserve room is equal to that of an information booth in a large railway station Other ratings determined were engineers' engineers library two forty-two decibels deci decibels deci- deci eci- eci I bels main reference room forty- forty six periodical room forty and the hall sixty The l law w library in the Park building registered two forty-two decibels decibels deci deci- eci- eci bels and the secretary's office fifty decibels Few Fe places where people e work are bel below w the level of fifty decibels |