As someone who has a mobility disability, going around the library was not my preferred option and the general consensus that the students reached was that going through the library was rude, lazy and irresponsible, so the library began putting up posters discouraging people from going through the library. As a couple of posters are not the cure for my disability, I continued to go through the library, taking care to be as quiet as possible. My rationale was that if people were not meant to go through the library, then the library would not have doors running through it, creating the perfect connection to many areas, and if people were truly bothered, they would take time to plan out their studying and book a study room. They were even empty and unbooked most of the time. Students often tried to book practice rooms instead of study rooms, which led to problems for people who needed to practice, but I never saw anyone get upset about that even though the practice rooms are supposed to be for practicing dance, music and theatre.
Another problem with the library that people complained about was that students from the greater N.U.S. school were coming into Yale-NUS's library to do their studying. The Yale-NUS campus is positioned right next to N.US.. dorms at University Town, and while Yale-N.U.S. is technically a part of N.U.S., the university is autonomous, and students must have two different cards to have complete access to N.U.S. and Yale-N.U.S. buildings. I soon learned that the Yale-NUS library was never full no matter when I went there. This semester was special because of the Covid-19 measures in place, but I never saw evidence to the claim that N.U.S. students were "hogging" the library. There were three dorms nearby, and the N.U.S.
