September 2011

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purchase of film

21st September, 2011 ~ 1 answer

I will be teaching POLS 2503 Conflict and Non-Violent Change in Semester 1 2012. For this course I would like to request the purchase of two films

1. Soldiers of Peace http://www.soldiersofpeacemovie.com/movie-trailer/movie.php
2. The Insular empire http://www.horseopera.org/Insular_Empire_2010/

Thanks

Nicole

Biological Sciences purchase suggestion

20th September, 2011 ~ 2 answers

RNA: Life's Indispensable Molecule, by James E. Darnell. 2011. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. ISBN: 978-1-936113-19-4.

Would be a wonderful purchase for the library, as one of UQ's strengths is RNA biology
Thanks in advance!

Reviewed here:
http://rnajournal.cshlp.org/content/17/10/1771.full

Biological Sciences purchase suggestion

20th September, 2011 ~ 2 answers

RNA: Life's Indispensable Molecule, by James E. Darnell. 2011. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. ISBN: 978-1-936113-19-4.

Would be a wonderful purchase for the library, as one of UQ's strengths is RNA biology
Thanks in advance!

Reviewed here:
http://rnajournal.cshlp.org/content/17/10/1771.full

Request for acquisition

19th September, 2011 ~ 1 answer

I would like to suggest the following new release for purchase for the Law Library:

Margaret Thornton, Privatising the Public University: The Case of Law (Routledge, 2011)

Thanks,
Trish

I simply don't understand why you can't put up more signage regarding computer etiquette around the library? I am in the eZone now, there is not a single computer free, and many have books and bags and other belongings strewn over them with no person in sight. People reserve computers for hours at a time and simply disappear off doing other things. This happens every single day. There is little to no signage in this library telling people not to do this, nor are there any staff patrolling and enforcing quiet zones. Please do not tell me that the solution is to move someone's stuff myself, or have to continually tell people to be quiet. I'd like to know why there is no signage or staff in this building, and when it is going to be fixed. Surely the amount of complaints you are receiving tell you that the current system is simply not working?

Rude Staff

12th September, 2011 ~ 1 answer

The security guard working on the night of Monday 12/9 was quite rude. I went outside briefly to make a phone call and buy a drink from the vending machine, and he clearly saw me walk outside, as he was standing by the doorway eyeing people off like a hawk as they came in. When I came back inside just 2 minutes later he asked me for ID, even though he knew I had just left the library (he had seen me). I explained that my ID was up in my bag at my computer, but he made a big deal of it and made me go upstairs, retrieve it and show it to him, without so much as a "please". I felt like an idiot and talked down to. I realise that showing ID after 8pm is a requirement of entry to the library, but perhaps it can be done with a little common sense - I had left the library barely two minutes before, and he had seen me do so. And if no common sense can be applied, perhaps some basic courtesy would not go astray, at the very least.

Noise level at PACE health science library

9th September, 2011 ~ 3 answers

Dear PACE library:

The noise level at PACE library is much louder compared to a number of other UQ libraries and this is very distracting for students who require a quiet area to study. I am aware of the quiet zone at the PACE library however even at this space, a number of students are unaware that they need to stay quiet. Also it seems that a number of students like to "hang out" in the library and chat loudly rather then to study and this is unfair to the students who need to study. Their noise level is so loud that students at the quiet zone can hear. Perhaps there needs to be a greater increase in awareness for lowering voice levels at the PACE library?

Thank you very much.
Judy