Libraries are Information! not just books

Libraries will give you information about anything you want to know; in your studies; in your jobs; in any research you want to do and in anything you are interested in.

Information is in books, journals, encyclopedias, directories, dictionaries, indexes and abstracts, on tapes, on records, on films etc.

Can You find the information you want?

Can You use the card catalogues?

The card catalogue will (only) tell you the titles of books, periodicals, records etc. in the library. The main catalogues are on the main floor of the Library.

Look in the north end cabinets for the listing of the author or title of the book you want. The titles of the library's periodicals are also held there, along with composers and titles of musical works or records, and books about people or their works (biographies, criticisms, interpretations etc.)

The cabinets at the south end are the subject catalogue. If you want a book on a specific subject look up that subject or any subjects which are similar.

The catalogue in periodicals will only tell you the titles of the periodicals that the library has, not what is in them (to find that out you will have to use a periodical index or abstract). It also has under broad subject headings the titles of related periodicals.

For Help: Ask a Librarian.

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.

Scratches not up to Scratch

I sing of the experiment of the library to provide record listening facilities for student-type people. It has failed. Please let us do something to relieve the piss-off? Briefly, we get cross listening-hearing Shakespeare when we asked for Webern, scratched records, record is stuck record is stuck, headphones crap out, staff won't take collateral if you left your library card at home, no volume control. One answer is not to have the cables running under the floor (from Study Hall out to the art presentation area booths. I dare to speak for many dissatisfied students, many of whom use the service as an essay resource or just plain recuperation.

Should all music be experimental?