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Salient. Official Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 41 No. 14. June 12 1978

Law Library Grouch

Law Library Grouch

Dear Simon,

As a student whose course requires that I spend a lot of time in the library researching work and using reference material, I want to complain about the bloody awful system of opening hours the place has.. Having the prepare every night for classes the next day, the only real opportunity I get to study etc., is to do this during the weekend and holidays ... so what happens. The library, which is supposedly there for the benefit of students closes at six on a Friday night, opens for the morning on Saturdays, and the afternoon on Sundays which gives a student fuck all time to do any work there. If my memory serves me correctly the reduced hours were to save money (around $3,000-5,000) so that some conference or other could be attended. If this conference has been, then why the lousy hours still...; or is it merely an excuse for what is really a convenience matter i.e.. why have students cluttering up the varsity where conferences are being held....

The problem strikes hardest at those students who rely on non-issuable material for their course, what use is an expensive set of statutes that you cannot refer to at night, over the weekend, or holidays. Remember many of us have to work during the day so that we can afford to come here at all .... or is that the idea? To restrict varsity to the children of the rich?

It is time that students stood up for the right to decent learning facilities, so how about some Action about the library?? The [unclear: damn] place is for our use, or so the glossy booklet the varsity bureaucrats puts out tells us so let's use it ... when We want to, not when they think we should.

Yours in anger at petty bureaucracy,

Law Student.