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Suggestions Q & A

The library welcomes suggestions from our patrons either through our website or our Suggestions Box on the Reference Desk.  We will update our website to include some of the suggestions that have been sent to us along with our comments.

Put 2-3 benches outside in the shady spot closest to Ave Maria Blvd.

Since we have no "authority" outside of the Canizaro Library, please bring this suggestion to the attention of the Student Life Office.

The freshmen are loud in the QUIET study rooms.  Can you send a FL-ALL e-mail reminding them the meaning of "Quiet Study Rooms" and the telos (purpose) of a library?

We will put more signs up.  During midterms, the Library did get noisier, because there were more people using it and because some students clearly succumbed to the pressure of last-minute exam prepping.   Unfortunately, email doesn't work too well since a significant number of students do not check and/or empty their email accounts often enough to make this a reliable way to communicate. 

I would really like to see us get our study rooms back.

Can you be more specific?  There are Quiet Rooms and Group Study Rooms throughout the Canizaro Library.  And the 2^nd Floor of the Library is at all times a Quiet Study Area.

I would like the library to have a shelf (maybe by the doors) for people to drop off personal books they had purchased and finished reading and pick up new ones as a "take one leave one".  Swap shop probably specializing in spiritual and/or textbooks but not necessarily.  It would promote extra-curricula's learning by enabling students to acquire a variety of books free of charge (except leaving a book they no longer want) and keep different books indefinitely.  Please let me know what you think.  P.S. They had a "free shelf" at my community college.

This is as good idea for the dorms or Student Activities Center.

Two suggestions regarding ILL requests:  It would be more convenient for students and easier on the staff if students could submit their own ILL requests (Franciscan University does this, requiring the students barcode # for security).  If that is not feasible, how about a standard ILL request form on the library webpage that requires a certain minimum of information and field for brief message.

For now we choose not to do what you suggest.  With some frequency we already have what people choose to inter-loan.  And inter-loaning is an expensive process.  Our staff is happy to assist you.  No matter what the inter-loan process has to go through a staff member (at all colleges and universities) so you are not saving anytime by doing it yourself.

Stay open later.

We stay open later just prior to and during exams.  It is simply a function of cost.  We have enough funding to stay open 90 hours a week, more than any of the colleges and universities within 50 miles of us.  The 24-Hour Reading room is open 24 hours a day, even when the library is closed.

I think that there should be classical music throughout the library.

You can connect headphones to a computer and listen to classical music from the Library's Naxos website if you like.  But some people desire silence.  This way, if you want music, you can have it without disturbing others. 

Scrap paper and golf pencils in containers near the computer stations for writing down call numbers.

Great idea.  It's been done!

I suggest making the doors that face the academic building into entrances as well as exits for students (i.e., music majors) who must travel between the buildings for classes.  Also, a bike rack next to the entrance doors.

First, the exits.  For security reasons we need one entrance and exit.  Thus, you should only enter and exit using the front entrance.  As for a bike rack, it's been done.  Thanks for the suggestion.

Recommend an Etymological Dictionary of Latin and of Greek as well to find out what English words were derived from them.

OK.  We'll get them.

The complete collections of Sherlock Holmes and Calvin and Hobbes would be really cool.

We have Holmes.  Complete Calvin and Hobbes is $150, so we think we'll pass on that for now.

Please fix front entrance, very slippery when wet.

We now have mats.  Thanks for the suggestion.

Have donuts in the morning and practice rooms (music) open 24hours for music student - special privileges. 

Who is going to pay for the donuts?  And there's no food or drink (only bottled water) allowed in the Library - except for the 24-Hour Reading Room.  As for access when the Library is closed - that is a "security" issue.

Students should be permitted to rearrange furniture in group study and quiet study rooms as necessary provided they do no damage and return them to their original places when they're done.

Students may rearrange furniture as long as it is returned to its proper place when leaving.  Frequently, however, it is not returned.

I was thinking that the reading room was both more inviting and more conducive to study the way it was arranged before.  Would it be possible to change it back?  Thank you!

Generally we have heard positive comments about the rearrangement - which was made at the suggestion of students.