Category Archives: Your feedback

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Training needs survey

We value your feedback to enhance your experience with the Sainsbury Library. To better understand your confidence in information skills, your use of library resources, and your preferences for training formats and timing, we invite you to take part in a short survey.
The survey will take just 3–5 minutes to complete and will help us tailor our support services to your needs.

:date: Access the Survey online.

Thank you for being an active part of the Sainsbury Library community! Don’t forget to explore the training sessions and workshops we currently offer on our LibGuide page. Your input makes a difference!

Recommend a book

If a book or other resource you need is not held by the Sainsbury Library or the Bodleian Libraries, we are happy to try to source or purchase this for you. We accept recommendations from students and staff. Before submitting a request, check SOLO to make sure the resource is not already available in Oxford.

The Bodleian Libraries also welcome suggestions for books and other resources to be purchased. When completing the form, please provide as much detail as possible about the resource you are recommending. Your request will be passed on to the relevant subject librarian for consideration, and you will be notified of the outcome.

Suggest a Database or Data Set

Do let us know if there’s a resource that we don’t currently offer that you’d like to use in your studies or research. The Sainsbury Library team will then look into providing the database, or we might be able to suggest an alternative from our current offering of databases that has the same data.

Even if we cannot immediately offer the resource, all feedback and requests are helpful and can assist us in identifying new databases in the long term. Some recent database acquisitions are due to requests from staff and students, so get in touch with your suggestions!

MacBook Accessories

You asked for more MacBook accessories. We’ve now added extra Apple USB-C adapters to our list of IT equipment available for loan:

  • USB-C 87W Power Adapter
  • USB-C Charge Cable (2m)
  • USB-C to USB Adapter
  • USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter

To borrow any of these items, please ask a member of library staff. If there is an item not listed that you would like us to provide, please do make a recommendation.

The Library Graffiti Wall – catch up|#sbslibwall

Selection of picsWhile Chris has promptly answered all the comments on our Graffiti Wall, the pace of contributions made it difficult to keep pace, so the blog remained quiet. Please accept our apologies for the silence.

If you are interested in the conversations of the past few weeks, please visit our Facebook gallery, where we will post all questions and responses from today on.

“Desks are often sticky.”|#sbslibwall

“Desks are often sticky.”I have just reported this to our cleaning manager – I suspect it is to do with the cleaning fluid being used, and have asked that this be looked at. I will report back as soon as I hear, and thank-you for alerting us as this is not good from a number of angles, including the comfort one.

Cheers

Chris

“Why no guests when the library is empty?”|#sbslibwall

“Why no guests when the library is empty?”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.

Chris

“Install a Toilet PLEASE”|#sbslibwall

IMG-20150505-00686A toilet…. …..maybe adjacent to a café, a lounge and a train station??

Sorry, maybe you are being serious, and here I am, giving my funny bone a bit of a stretch there.

But I have to be honest – no matter how hard which way I look at this one, I just can’t elicit a sane and sober response.  But please, make a serious case on why you can’t walk to the nearest loo down the corridor or downstairs and why you would sacrifice high real-estate worth of study space to another loo (or two, depending on whether we can be non-gender specific), and why you would want to hear the many cacophonous and other sounds that emanate from such a facility, along with other emanations not unknown of such facilities while working in the library, and why you would want to tolerate the to-ing and froing through the library that would generally ensue, and I will respond – seriously, I promise.

Cheers

Chris