Communication Needed

It's really good that you are starting up a library column. I'm impressed! I'm sure that it will be a really useful way of opening up communication with the most important part of our lives at university: the library is the heart of the university, it is necessary for all of us as our source of information. It has been left to fall well behind what it should be, especially during the last five years.

For it to develop we need to communicate with those who run it. So that your initiative in starting this column will, with the new library User's committee, go a long way to meeting a n need lacking for so long, and so necessary.

I have two queries: why does the library not issue books Saturday afternoon and Sunday? After all facilitating availability of material is one of the library's main functions. The records are in very bad shape, and as well there is a great deal of interference, etc. because of the technical set-up. For someone to write an essay or criticism using them it is very hard.

Perhaps these questions could be answered by the librarian.