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Does anyone else suffer from their university libraries being Rubbish? Term is about to start and Ive looked online at some of the recommended reading for my modules. For one of my modules out of the 4 books the uni library only stocks two, and only has one copy of each. These 'essential reading' books are out on Month long loans rather than on Temporary Reserve or short loan. On another module i checked the Library has nothing stocked at all. It makes me so mad the fact that my course may be detrimented if i dont fork out around £100 for books.
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Is there a request/suggestion list for the library? Go and put all the books on the recommended reading onto that list. Another thing to try would be the staff/student link committe or whatever your equivalent is called in your department. It seems very daft that no where in the uni had these books.
I guess I'm spoilt with our selection but my department copy has a 'not for release' copy of all our core books, as does my college library, as well as usually having a couple of copies available for standard loan.
Lastly, you can generally put a hold on whatever book you need and if the system is good like ours, if a certain number of people put a hold on the same book, it automatically gets transfered to the "short loan," section.
Good luck.
god yes ;[[
libraries respond to the wishes of people running the courses so it is thier responsibility........