Placement+-+Day+Six

Day Six

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Visited 4 libraries that were open on the Monday public holiday. This was an interesting activity, as many students were using all of the libraries. Some used the books but a lot were just using the internet connection.

I had a discussion with Jen on Tuesday about this UTS []

It seems this is what the students want access to in relation to facilities. The library is in a strange siduation at Sydney Uni as they are picking up the tab for the university not haveing adiquate study facilities. The UTS 24/7 facilitie is one answer to the problem. Sci Tech library at Sydeny Uni did stay open till midnight last year (they even had a microwave, this caused hasstles as the smell of food was anoying to some students (as staff I would have hated it)).

At present libraries are going one way or the other sydeny TAFE library is just becoming a space and has no problem with this. They even let students sleep in the bean bags (is this the answer) Why get an information degree if you are just going to manage space. I have no answer to this and I don't even know if I have an oppinion yet on this. Sydney Uni is puting a lot of money into the Law library (see blog photos) this space was being used by students and Jen states that they are manly Law students. The SciTech library is in the Ecomonics area but the building is the technology building and has amalgamated architecture library.

The medical and badham library may be moved into the Fisher library. Both of these libraries are not looking very good and are not recieving much money.

SCA library is not recieving much funding in relation to upgrading the space neither is nursing.

Will look into the restructure and talk to the gentelman from Fisher on Firday