Testing and Privacy

Visual privacy

Due to library safety and security considerations, none of our study rooms are completely visually private. Do not block the views into the study rooms. Note that this means if the view into the room is blocked with something over the window, our staff will enter the room to do a visual safety inspection and remove the visual barrier.

If you are looking for rooms with the most visual privacy, these study rooms have more visual privacy:

• Chemistry: 2430G, 2430H – (opaque frosted glass)
• College: 2191A, B, C, D – (small window in the doors)

Acoustic privacy

Almost all of our study rooms are built to provide sufficient sound isolation for typical in-person discussions or virtual meetings. If you are particularly concerned about sound isolation, these rooms have LESS sound isolation:

• Historical Library: 217, 234

Honorlock, LSAT, and other test taking locations

Honorlock should work in any of our study rooms. Note, you should orient yourself so that your camera points away from any window in the room.

LSAT testing – and other standardized online tests – should work in any of the rooms listed above under “Visual privacy.”

But note that most standardized online tests indicate they may disqualify a testing location if there are other electronic devices (including monitors) in the space or if there is a small window on the door to the space, although this is typically at the discretion of the proctor.

At this time, we are unaware of anyone being disqualified for taking a standardized online test in the “Visual privacy” rooms listed above due to the small window or the monitor in the room.