Hi there, I'd like to start off by saying that I really appreciate the new 24 hours access to the law library - it gives students who study at night more options and convenience. However, there is something that's severely damping the attractiveness of the library at night. That is, that the big wooden doors that provide access to the library's front entrance are sometimes locked at night (not every night though, it was locked half the times I've used the law library). Whenever the doors are locked, 2 problems arise: 1. Access to the toilets is removed - this is a major problem for many users of the library. The nearest toilets are found only at the Bioscience Library (which is so far away that one might as well pack up and move there for the night if one had to use the toilets) 2. Convenient access to the car park lots just outside the Forgan Smith is removed. This means having to walk through Chancellors Place, then past the Bioscience Library, and then past the (inaccessible) side of the law library to retrieve a car parked there. This is especially a problem (as I recently found out) on rainy nights. I know that these are seemingly minor issues that do not directly relate to the substance of the library and it's ease of access as well as facilities. However, these create real problems that pose such great inconvenience that there is little incentive for one to use the 24 hour space in the law library (as opposed to the Bioscience Library). I hope that instructions to keep those big brown doors at the library's entrance unlocked 24/7/365 will be passed to the relevant parties. Cheers!

You lads are doing a bang up job. Keep up the quality work xx

"George Herbert's Travels: International Print and Cultural Legacies," edited by Christopher Hodgkins. This is a book with essays from eminent contemporary scholars about the legacy of George Herbert. "These essays ask how travel through space and time influences the reception and creation of literary art; in other words, how the movement of poetry affects and effects poetic movements. The interdisciplinary contributors observe Herbert’s poetry traveling geographically (from earlier British receptions, to the “American strand,” to the Far East), traveling internally (through the interior terrain of formal and bodily experience), and traveling temporally (through the shifting cultural landscapes made by Modern and Postmodern minds). Along the way, they discover connections between Herbert and a kaleidoscopic range of writers and thinkers including Augustine, William Shakespeare, John Donne, Edward Herbert, Anne Clifford, Robert Herrick, Henry Vaughan, Christopher Harvey, Thomas Traherne, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, Anne Ridler, R. S. Thomas, Simone Weil, Robert Lowell, James Merrill, Philip Larkin, Harold Bloom, Anthony Hecht, John Bradburne, Seamus Heaney, Dallas Wiebe, Carole Rumens, and Vikram Seth." This is a timely and much needed work about Herbert, filling a gap left in his critical history (about his inventiveness and influence, as well as the importance of his own reception throughout the centuries). It's needed not only in our UQ collection, but in Herbert scholarship at large!! Would be great to add it to our library, and will be very, very, very useful for my own thesis work.

I would like to place a suggestion for all campus libraries to have a binding facility free to students. I have noticed that every Griffith university campus has a binding machine situated where the printers/photocopiers and staplers are, and am curious as to why UQ libraries do not? I think it would be quite a useful resource for many students to bind their lecture notes together or bind assignments for submission.