If the building were to reopen for the exam period it would be limited to studying facilities alone without any computers.

The main Libiary may be a safer bet as the old desks have remained in place in the tower block. I’m not sure whats going on in the old building itself though.

If you want to know why the computers in the new libiary are constantly full, one word, Facebook.

Why should we need to wait until the dead of night to aquire a computer and silence? We are paying in excess of 3,000 per year in fees and, for the majoirty of us we have nowhere to complete the workload!

I say, while seamus Heany is available open it up to the student body around exam period!
Who is with me???
If nothing changes, action is needed.

He wrote an article…he went to a committee meeting. That’s activism to a whole new level there! (note the sarcasm)

The Gown should investigate whether or not Paul Lilly was really the person to make the difference.

as for CB….”close the holylands”….good one….nnnaaatttt. get a life you pathetic individual and go back to whatever hole in stranmillis you crawled from….

Slash, I’m currently in said library. I attempted to get a book from the 1st floor…it wasn’t there. I attempted to get a pamphlet, and it wasn’t there either!

On the plus side, the librarian who helped me was very nice and was most apologetic at my misfortune…

My essay just won’t be as good now though. Cheers Queen’s. You might have cost me my 2:1.

There’s an internet law that states that its 100 times easier to criticize anothers actions than it is to back up your own.

I raised the issue of library opening times at Academic Board along with other representatives. Following this meeting, and following a meeting held by the SU President, we have been informed that the entire bottom floor will be open over exam period. I think that this is a much better solution, (than just opening the front computer room which was previously planned) and offers a better deal for students.

Your ‘deadwood’ and vain sab, Paul xo

Perhaps he’ll speak out, now that his counterpart is getting all the attention for HIS job…

As a final year student and knowing full well that I’ll well be pro-plusing the life out of myself come January to get me through my exams, I’m disappointed that a university that is hoping to push its fees well into the ten grand bracket cannot afford to give me an actual desk (Ikea retail value of about of £4.95) during these stressful times.

The sabs need to stop whinging about it and try and get together a pressure group to ensure the library opens at least two of the floors( I can’t see how else the student population can be accommodated )during exam time.

On the other hand if this doesn’t happen I may just thoroughly enjoy being there when it all kicks off…pencil cases at dawn! At least the Gown will get a good front page story out of it…

Last week I had to wait 10 minutes for a free computer, and then when I finally did get one and logged on, the Internet kept stopping which made logging into Qcat and trying to access a journal very frustrating, so I ended up having to wait for another console to become free so I could move over to that one.

That’s not to mention the difficulty of accessing journals using the new (and no doubt ludicrously expensive) electronic shelving system which seems to be the pinnacle of style over function. What would have been wrong with normal, fixed shelves like in the old libraries where you don’t have to have a degree in computer engineering to actually get access to a journal? Not to mention Qcat stating that a journal from 1978 was in the library, but when I went to get it, finding out that particular journal was only stocked from 1985 onwards.

I have already had several frustrating experiences in the new library this semester. The old libraries weren’t perfect but I have never had as much irritating and time-wasting things happen to me in the library before, especially considering the new library should be designed to make it easier and quicker to use the services. I think it’s a joke that they aren’t going to reopen the Heaney library at least over exam periods to cope with demand. And I’m sure I’m not the only person who feels this way, almost everyone I’ve spoken to agrees with me that, although the new library looks good, there have been so many stupid decisions made and it’s so open plan that it’s harder to study quietly without something breaking your concentration.

The new library has not yet experienced an exam period, so why the uproar? The poor librarians are probably quaking in their boots. Paul, would you want to be a librarian trying to control such a huge library late at night, so close to the Holylands? Perhaps that is a more pertinent issue.

Stop wasting time writing articles and do something then exec!!!!All of ye!!!!

Paul has brought the matter up with the relevant parties in his capacity as one of the SU Exec and has even named members of the academic board that have been consulted on the matter.

I’m sure Paul is working to resolve students difficulties with the new library, he’s certainly doing more about it than someone bitching about him on the internet.

I have the luxury of not having to use the library any more as a location for studying but would have preferred some semblance of privacy and quiet that the old tower block afforded. When you have to revise material for up to 11 hours a day you begin to appreciate the small quiet cubicles as somewhere to concentrate on your work.

While the new library has plenty of modern elegance it suffers from the same open plan problems that make it hard to concentrate on your work without distractions.

Seriously, not only was the diatribe poorly written, but he is preaching at us when he should be doing something about it.

I’m fed up with paying for dead wood like Mr Paul Lilly who has an ego surpassed only by that of the Union Speaker Mr Alex Redpath.

It’s a pity that with the election of people like Paul we succeed in elevating mediocrities, when now more than ever we need smart, capable and able student officers representing students.

At least there are a couple of other decent officers in this years Exec- although people like My Lilly certainly lower the collective ability of the group.

Ah, how I lament.