2008 Woodie Awards
Extended hours at Bailey Library would waste student money
Issue date: 4/15/05 Section: Rocket Letters
To the Editor:
I am writing this in regard to Rob Ambrosino's article, which was published on Friday's edition of The Rocket. Once finalized, Bailey Library will be opened for an additional 15 hours a week, Sunday through Friday and will be on trial for a whole academic year. The Board of Directors of Cooperative Activities has voted unanimously to allocate $9,000 of student money for the installation of a security system in the library, which will add up to a total cost of $17,250.
I've been a student worker at the library circulation desk for the past four years. In the last four years, myself and other students who work at the Bailey Library rarely see more than 15 students in the whole building after 10 p.m. During finals week, when we are opened up extra hours to provide a study place for students, we see even less. The majority of students on campus would never think to come to the library at those late hours. The reason being is that students are busy with their social life or would rather study at their dorm rooms, study lounges or apartments. They save the walk or drive to the library.
The people who are trying to get the library to stay open later aren't the ones who are going to being working those hours. It's the students and other library staff who will be stuck with the work. As for the added security system, in my four years at the library I've maybe encountered one or two problems at the library. They were nothing to cause me to stay away from the library for the rest of my life. The library is a quiet place where students move in and out of the building at their leisure, not causing problems because they come to the library for what they need and then leave.
Also, I've not even heard one complaint from a library patron who feels unsafe here and needs a security camera to make them feel safe. And who is going to watch these security cameras? Student workers. Wow, having a student worker watching monitors while on duty makes me feel safe. Most student workers would have no clue what to do if something happened, so it would be like no one was watching at all.
I am writing this in regard to Rob Ambrosino's article, which was published on Friday's edition of The Rocket. Once finalized, Bailey Library will be opened for an additional 15 hours a week, Sunday through Friday and will be on trial for a whole academic year. The Board of Directors of Cooperative Activities has voted unanimously to allocate $9,000 of student money for the installation of a security system in the library, which will add up to a total cost of $17,250.
I've been a student worker at the library circulation desk for the past four years. In the last four years, myself and other students who work at the Bailey Library rarely see more than 15 students in the whole building after 10 p.m. During finals week, when we are opened up extra hours to provide a study place for students, we see even less. The majority of students on campus would never think to come to the library at those late hours. The reason being is that students are busy with their social life or would rather study at their dorm rooms, study lounges or apartments. They save the walk or drive to the library.
The people who are trying to get the library to stay open later aren't the ones who are going to being working those hours. It's the students and other library staff who will be stuck with the work. As for the added security system, in my four years at the library I've maybe encountered one or two problems at the library. They were nothing to cause me to stay away from the library for the rest of my life. The library is a quiet place where students move in and out of the building at their leisure, not causing problems because they come to the library for what they need and then leave.
Also, I've not even heard one complaint from a library patron who feels unsafe here and needs a security camera to make them feel safe. And who is going to watch these security cameras? Student workers. Wow, having a student worker watching monitors while on duty makes me feel safe. Most student workers would have no clue what to do if something happened, so it would be like no one was watching at all.
