When given the option, I’ve found that completing computer-based work in the library rather than my home is the far better option.
There, I am surrounded by other individuals who are completing tasks of their own, and the work-focused mindset is contagious.
At home, it is far to easy to become side-tracked, whether one is tempted by food in the kitchen, or the comfy bed in the nearby room, or even watching videos online. Somehow, even though no one is watching me at the library, I feel a healthy pressure to conform to the study environment and I get things done more efficiently. However, the efficient can quickly cease if the air conditioning unit there is blasting at full-power, as if often the case. Unfortunately, especially in warmer climates, I have found that libraries tend to make heavy use of their AC units and freeze their patrons. The cooling is really too extreme. I will often have to move to find a warmer spot. In the winter, I can imagine that the libraries are likewise quite cold, despite the number of furnaces or heaters they may have running. The space in a library is just too big, and there is no use in using a heating unit to heat up books. As a result, the heating is perhaps not so substantial in a library. Perhaps a better option for libraries would be to replace their central heating units with smaller furnaces that line the edges of the library, where most of the patrons sit and could enjoy the heaters. All it would take to accomplish this, I imagine, is calling up the local HVAC provider and having an HVAC technician visit a few times to install the heating units.