You are correct to observe that there are indeed times when the Sainsbury Library is not heavily used – but on each day that this is the case, we can clearly see the usage level rise during the day, due to the SBS students coming in “en masse” when released from lectures being held in the School or other events that have had kept them out of the library.
And while I appreciate that, for various reasons, many non-SBS students wish to work here, the fact that SBS students cannot realistically go to another library to work (and nor should they), means that my main responsibility has to be to ensure that the SBS students have access to the library as and when they need it.
So, until such time as someone can come up with some way that would guarantee that the total number of “guests” wishing to study here on any day did not exceed our capacity to accommodate them without detriment to the SBS students – who absolutely must take precedence over those who can use another library but prefer this one – then regrettably the policy as it is must stand.