Library Suggestion Box
The library welcomes all suggestions and encourages everyone to let us know how to improve your experience in the library or in using library resources.
If you would like a response to your note, include your email address. Melanie Dunshee, the Assistant Dean for Library Services, will respond within 48 hours.
Recent Responses
| Suggestion: I would like to suggest that the Law School not have classes on Labor Day. It's not fair to the employees or the students. By having classes on Labor Day many families are not allowed to spend the last holiday of the summer together. Because some staff members have to work over the weekend and on Monday. The students are not allowed to travel because they have to be here for class on Labor Day. I think Easter weekend and Labor Day weekend should also be designated holidays. |
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Response: OK, Law Library staff, I get it. Very funny. Which one of you jokesters put this suggestion in here? Anyway, that policy is set by the Law School, not the library. We called on the expertise of Prof. Theresa Newman, in her role as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, who has bravely given this response and also invites the anonymous questioner, if you are a student, to come and speak to her if you remain concerned. "The real answer is that we follow the University schedule. For the most part, their holidays are our holidays. The second part of the answer is, given the number of days we have to meet [the ABA requires 130 in an academic year], we have to resolve all sorts of trade-offs with holidays, longer summer breakers, breaks between terms, making up classes that meet on Mondays, etc." |
| Suggestion: Can we get a fish tank with scuba diving koala bears armed with spears? Can we have strobe lights and techno music at night please? |
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Response: View the video response for answers to these burning questions. |
| Suggestion: Move the power outlets in the first floor carrels to a more convenient spot in the carrels. As they are now, you have to crawl under the desk to plug in a power cord. |
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Response: Providing convenient access to power in a building designed long before the era of laptop computers is challenging. Several years ago, the Library was rewired to bring power to the table tops in the reading room and at the Level 1 carrels in response to this need. As you might surmise, the Level 1 carrels were originally designed in 1994 for desk top computers. We agree that refitting them for power at the desk top for laptops was long overdue. View the video response to witness the development of this project. |
| Suggestion: We (students) need paper clips and scotch tape available for use 24 hours. |
| Response: What's a 24 hour library without 24 hour paper clips? Your suggestion is interesting. None of the suggestions regarding our staplers hit upon this non-tech solution. Why not some alternative ways besides staples to hold things together? Paper clips and a giant tape dispenser are now available by the printers at the back of the reading room. We are happy to give you 24 hour access to these small amenities and hope it makes law school life even better. |
| Suggestion: I know all too well the dangers of food and drinks in the library, but with proper supervision, it would be neat to do a "coffee hour" program once and a while. It could be as simple as putting some coffee out at the front of the library once a month, or more involved by linking it to an informal conversation with a librarian. Mini-lectures on neat or weird things the librarians or others have come across during research, for example. |
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Response: The library staff is very flattered that you want to spend more time with us over coffee. Coffee may be just the simple hook that lets everyone know we welcome informal conversation and inquiries even outside the library. As soon as we can come up with weird things and an alliterative name, your suggestion will indeed be implemented. Watch for announcements soon. If anyone has an alliterative name (but please not weird things) please send it to the Library Suggestion Box. |
