Brad writes:
I have spent many, many hours in the library this semester trying to study for the LSAT. It has been very, very tough to find a quiet place. Study rooms tend to be taken up, and on most floors the students are not quiet. Students in the basement tend to be silent, but I can often not concentrate due to the loud talking of the employees. I think it’s called the Illinois Repository section or something like that . . . the employees are off to the right when you get off the elevator. I have been dealing with this for months but am really frustrated now. There is nowhere to go to find silence. It’s bad enough when it’s the fault of students, but library employees are non-excusable. Could someone please speak with these employees and ask them to stay quiet or at least to keep their communication to a whisper? If I’m in the middle of a 4 hour timed practice test, I can’t get an accurate gauge as to my performance if ! my concentration is constantly broken. This has happened almost EVERY time I have been down there.
Dave Green, Associate University Librarian for Collections and Information Services replies:
Hello Brad. I have notified the supervisor of the IRAD area about this issue. Thanks for the feedback.
4 Comments
The 4th floor is also ridiculously loud. PLEASE have the staff enforce “quiet” guidelines throughout the library. It’s impossible to think. The library has been the loudest, worst place to study all semester. Unacceptable.
Please consider extending hours, especially during finals week. It is really inconvenient to have the University Library only open until 5pm when folks have research papers to complete, and finals to study for. University of Illinois at Chicago had their Daley library open 24 HOURS during finals week!For the sake of us students, please consider this for next semester’s finals.
the library computers are so slow now………..everything: websites, scrolling, links to open sites, etc etc…. last year they were fine! what happened?
When i was studying in Neiu there was a computer lab in the library which really help me and other students to do their research papers. I don?t know what happened and the administration removed the computer lab from the library which was an aweful decision specially for those students who are writing a research paper. I strongly suggest that library should set back a computer lab, so students can research,write,and print their papers at the same time and same place and they don?t need to run here and there for computer lab. Also Neiu Libray has only one entrance which makes difficult for students, so if they open another entrance in the back side then it will be much easier for students. Most of the libraries have multiple entrances.