Reading Room
A tabled room held silent for reading and study, where the acoustic and the lighting at the table are the entire brief.
How it connects
Reading Room is typically found in Library.
In other taxonomies
- reading roomsGetty AAT, 300004434the same thing
- Reading roomsUniclass, SL_25_70_72the same thing
For developersRecord, identifiers and graph
Where it sits
One rule per term beside it, taller for each narrower term
Reading Room
127 terms, Entry / Foyer to Other
Record
Deliberately not a kind of library. The parent turns on shelved collections and a reading room need hold none - reading rooms sit in archives, clubs and members' buildings with nothing on the walls. What they share is silence, and silence is not subsumption.
- Relations
- Typically in Library
- Provenance
- vendoredPROGRAM_SPACE_TYPES in a project-materials database (src-07), read 21 Aug 2026
For machines
Permanent address
/id/space/reading-roomKnowledge graph
Stored incoming and outgoing relations from the public V1 graph. Ancestors, descendants, and siblings are labelled as derived views rather than stored facts.
Crosswalks
| Scheme | Identifier | Their label, or the search | How close |
|---|---|---|---|
| Getty AAT | 300004434 | reading rooms | the same thing |
| Uniclass | SL_25_70_72 | Reading rooms | the same thing |