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.
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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.
It would be really helpful to have more information regarding this one so we can work out the source of the problem – so which terminal? And is it Bloomberg or Windows? For example.
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.
A toilet…. …..maybe adjacent to a café, a lounge and a train station??
This is the one that makes me want to weep: 7 years here and I am defeated by this one [can it be that architects repeatedly and universally design bad, unworkable libraries because they hate librarians?].