I am really surprised and disappointed that the individual rooms in the law library no longer have keys. I feel this was a bad idea for two reasons. Firstly, not having to pick up a key at the desk means that just anyone will come and sit in the rooms without bothering to book them. Sure, someone who has a legitimate booking can come and ask them to leave, but really we shouldn't have to do that after already having made a booking. And the reverse is happening as well: because there is no way of monitoring whether people are actually using the bookings they make, a number of rooms probably get booked and then never used, which is a serious waste of the limited space. At the very least, to fix this problem there should be some kind of check in system like there used to be with the keys, where a booking is cancelled if they are not 'claimed' at the front desk within the first 15 minutes. Secondly, the lack of key means that it is not possible to leave anything in the room if you have to leave it. Some of the rooms have very small lockers which could be used for maybe storing a book or two, but the majority of them (which used to require keys) have nothing like this. That makes them about as useful as just sitting anywhere in the library. If I have to go to the bathroom or to pick up a book from the shelves, I like to be able to leave my laptop and books and notebooks and bag all in the room set up as they were without having to pack everything up for a two minute trip there and back (not to mention having to wonder whether someone else will come and take my room while I'm gone). I have no idea why the key system was abandoned, possibly because people were not returning them, but I think the better solution is harsher punishments for the students who can't work within the rules of the system rather than getting rid of the system altogether. I hope you will consider restoring the keys for at least some of the rooms. Thanks, Tristan
March 2012
Hello, I am a PhD student with HPRC and I would like to suggest The Handbook of Philosophy of Information as a potential purchase. It is available as an eBook as well. Here is a link to the publication page: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/bookdescription.cws_home/716648/descrip... Hardbound, 1000 Pages Published: NOV-2008 ISBN 10: 0-444-51726-X ISBN 13: 978-0-444-51726-5 Imprint: NORTH-HOLLAND It is published by Elsevier as a part of the series of handbooks of philosophy of science. I think the other books in the series might be a nice addition to the library as well. Thank you.
Hi library team, I would just like to express my frustration regarding the lockable desks in the Duhig Building. For the second time this semester, after picking up the key for the desk I've booked for, I've come to find someone already utilising the desk. Usually I have no problems quietly informing those utilising the desk to move on, but today involved a bit of confrontation, and it took some urging to get the person to vacate the desk. He eventually vacated, and I offered to show him how to book a desk on the internet, which he refused. I understand that it's complicated to regulate, but could the library emphasise to all students on how to appropriately use the Graduate Study Centre? Or send a staff member to comb the centre a couple of times a day to see who is using a desk without a key and then inform them of the requirements? Again, I understand that this is a complex issue. But as a postgraduate student, I shouldn't have to worry about potential confrontations with people who clearly cannot respect the Online Booking System tool. Thanks
Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist
Christof Koch MIT Press: 2012. 184 pp. $24.95, £17.95
ISBN: 9780262017497
Reviewed here:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v483/n7389/full/483271a.html
First of all, the changes to the Law Library are amazing! Really loving it! My suggestion is that there be power points in the new group areas. While we can use the charging lockers, these aren't available to us after hours and the group areas are more than just a place to work. With the TVs and capacity to connect to laptops and the whiteboards, power point access is important. Connecting our laptops to the TV is great but likely to drain the battery quickly, especially if we are watchign lecture recordings or class related videos.
I think Self-Organization in Non-Equilibrium Systems by Nicolis and Prigogine would be a nice addition to all of the other Prigogine books available.
To whom it may concern,
My name is Anna and I am a member of the School of health and rehabilitation sciences, division of speech pathology. I was wondering whether the library could please purchase the following assessment for the Dorothy Hill library.
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Title: Measure of Cognitive-Linguistic Abilities (MCLA)
Author(s): Wendy Ellmo, Jill Graser, Beth Krchnavek, Kimberly Hauck, and Deborah Calabrese
Year: 1995
Publisher: The Speech Bin
Kind regards,
Anna
Please consider purchasing the following titles:
The Cure for Heart Disease / Dwight Lundell
The Great Cholesterol Lie / Dwight Lundell
Dr Bernstein's Diabetes Solution / Richard K. Bernstein
Computer FRY505 on Level 5 of the Social Sciences & Humanities Library has not been working for over one week and students are constantly looking for available computers. I'm not sure of the correct procedure to have this fixed. Please let me know if I need to report this elsewhere.
Thank you kindly.
Hi
If possible could the text below please be ordered in:
Judicial Independence in the Age of democracy - Critical Perspectives from around the World. Ed. by Peter H. Russell and David M. O'Brien. University Press of Virginia, 2001
Thank you,
David
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