From what I’ve heard about study spaces during this construction term, college buildings are making areas available for study. It should also be noted that there are some underutilized computer labs out there that can be the perfect place to handle your computing needs without the pressure of places like the MAC lab. So really, you don’t have to use the annex if it is too inconvenient.

Still, I’m confused about the thesis binding services. Where is that going to be? Rapid Copy is shutting down, but how am I going to get my thesis done? (Pleeeese, don’t send it to the annex near the garage, turning in your thesis at admin and going all the way to the other extreme of campus is nuts!)

P.S. Having read all of the previous blog posts, watch out for those post’s which are possibly made by people who work (offically or unoffically) for the university and are trying to counter any negative feelings regarding the building of the new library. Despite what they say, building the new library putting a huge burden, finacially and academically, on current and new students.

Also as stated, this is a commuter college with many working adult students who use public transportation to get back and forth which means lugging around many, many heavy books around on trains, buses, bicycles etc… This experience is already backbreaking enough without having to take home a stack of books that maybe no good and then having to do it all over again 24 hours later while trying to fit in classes, research, papers, and work…not to mention the occasional dinner with friends and family. It is too much to ask of us and especially to drop this on us without warning while we are suffering the added stress of not being able to complete our degrees in a timely manner because of fewer and fewer classes.

University and library officials really need to rethink this setup even if it means providing temporary buildings in the middle of the greens to house the books.

I will attend my final semester at SFSU this fall and if the library experience is as horrifying as it sounds like it will be, then i will definitely be withdrawing my plans to attend graduate school there.

Good luck with the library project, we really do need a better building and specifically more quiet study spaces and quiet computer labs. My experience with going to the library 4 days a week has been very frustrating and often unproductive since many of the younger students (including the ones who work in the computer labs) do not understand that laughing, talking loudly, and using cell phones in libraries is completely inconsiderate. Why should they think different when the library staff does nothing about it when asked to intervene?
I hope the new library has an enforced no cell phone policy throughout the building.