jawjayo said:
maybe im missing something but i dont quite see the problem. if ur going to complain about something complain about the fact that dispite having their books recalled people don't return them so you end up waiting for a text for 6 weeks by which time the due date is passed and you only pass because you bothered to go to other libraries anticipating humanity's inherent selfishness. I'm happy they let you recall books and that post-grad students can recall them faster than the average week coz i know when i get to post-grad it will benefit me. Use the book when you borrow it and there won't be a problem.
I think you indeed miss my point. My point was not complaining about reserving books (in fact it is fine to have such facility). It is also fine if the book is used for, say assignments and research where you look up the index/content and wha-la you found what you need and head straight to the photocopying machine and do what you what with it. But the books i borrowed as textbook (esp. maths + science) and that they have excercises in them and maybe you are those fast-reader+fast-understand-er, there is no way I can get thru even one chapter in one week + understand it....
Now you would probably think: why not just buy the book you cheap bastard? well I did in first year and it turns out that I don't need the book for the entire semester or even in the future... I am not as wealthy as other people and library is my only option. My local library don't have those textbook I'm looking for so I can't borrow it from there.
My point here is that the reservation system should be changed so that it should be fair to those who indeed need the book for a sufficient amount of time (no, i don't mean 16 weeks lol I mean a fortnight) and not some d-head who "just want to have a book in their home
incase they need to read it" and so they login LRD and click every single book on the screen ( and because if you have try reserving books before you would realise you can reserve multiple copies of book with same title). Why can't they, for example, make a single queue for books with the same title and peole don't queue for the particular copy of the book? at least i don't always have to be the [un]lucky one...
jawjayo said:
And as for people recalling books when other copies are on the shelf, whats that got to do with the library staff?? thats just stupid uni students who are so dumb they can't walk over to a shelf and check and see if the text is there.
exactly, it got nothing to do with the staff, that's why I ask where should I complain to? thanks for your reply with a question thou, appreciated much.
