Please have complete copies of the reserve text book!

Thanks for commenting. Often, instead of placing an entire book on reserve (or requiring students to purchase an entire book) instructors will request that specific pages from each book be photocopied and placed on electronic reserve for each student to use. One instructor’s requested pages may be different from another’s—even if they are teaching the same course. So if you were looking at the reserves for an instructor other than your own, you may have had trouble accessing the assigned reading.

If you are using a book that is damaged or has pages torn out, please report the problem to the reserves desk as quickly as possible so that they can work to resolve the problem.

Yep. We’ve recently received several comments in our suggestion box on the swampy conditions in Hagerty:

Bookmark Café is hot! People are distracted.

Turn on some AC. It’s hot in here.

A.C.

Thank you all for your suggestions. We realize it’s been warm in the library on these early spring afternoons. If you are feeling overheated, please let a staff member know, and we’ll ask someone from facilities to get some air circulating. In a few weeks the air conditioning will be turned on. And, after ductwork is completed in the early summer, our temperature regulation system will be more finely tuned.

Almost all freshman year students will be enrolled in English 103 this term, and most instructors have made Legacies a required text. The library has only two copies of the book, and every time I have a submission due, I’m put on the wait list and people are already on it.

Thanks for writing. While Hagerty cannot reserve text books for each Drexel student, we can put more on copies on reserve—if you talk with your instructor. Each copy of each book that is put on reserve is specifically requested by a course instructor. If you would like additional copies of your course text to be available on reserve, please ask your instructor either to bring more copies to the reserve desk, or to talk with their specific subject librarian about purchasing more copies for the library.

The library MUST get a subscription to The Nation. Inexcusable!

Thank you for the recommendation. We have ordered a print subscription for Hagerty Library. Meanwhile, you can use the library’s catalog to access The Nation’s recent issues as well as its archives going back to 1865. And you can find the latest issue in print at the Hahnemann and Law Libraries.

I recommend that the library buy this book: Cybersemiotics: Why Information Is Not Enough. Thank you!

Thank you for the recommendation. I have passed it along to the reference librarian in charge of maintaining our books in information sciences.

I am currently sitting in a carrel on the first floor with my laptop plugged into an Ethernet jack that doesn’t work, and, not surprisingly, neither does the wireless internet.  Where am I supposed to go to get my work done?

I’m sorry that you were unable to access the internet.  We have taken many steps to try and improve the situation for students, from working with IRT on DragonFly to installing new Ethernet hubs in various study rooms.  Please consider filling out this survey so that IRT can gather information about the problems with DragonFly here at Hagerty.  University administration has also been attempting to create new study spaces around campus to accommodate students.

I noticed that when I swiped my wallet going through security, my driver’s license came up on the computer screen. Why is Drexel Security “looking” through my wallet? Do you read my credit card, debit card, and health insurance information? Drexel ID is the only thing you should “look” at. I recommend all students swipe their cards only.

Thank you for your question and concern. The items in your wallet are safe, and we are not able to take pictures of them. There are two possible causes for confusion. First, when you scan your Dragon card, your on-file photo appears on the security screen. So what you saw may in fact have been the photograph from your Dragon card.

Alternatively, you may have seen a driver’s license that belonged to someone else. At the Hagerty security gate we take two kinds of ID: Dragon cards for members of the Drexel community, and other picture ID (usually driver’s licenses) for members of the public, alumni, and faculty and staff from other universities.  The monitor at the front security gate uses one kind of scanning software for Dragon cards and another kind for other types of ID, and both of those programs appear on the monitor at the same time. So you may very well have seen a driver’s pictured on the screen, but it was not yours. It most likely belonged to the last patron to enter the building who did not have a Dragon card.

I tend to use the library computers to study because, in theory, it should be quiet here.  But although both the upstairs and downstairs computer areas have QUIET AREA signs posted all over, there are always people on cell phones and people talking well above a whisper.  These quiet rules are never enforced and it makes studying difficult.  There is a large group study area in the basement.  It seems unfair that people who want a quiet area to study on a computer have to put up with this every day.  Can’t someone enforce the rules?

We appreciate you expressing your concern.  If you feel uncomfortable addressing the disrupters yourself, please let the Circulation Desk staff know and we will speak to them.  Unfortunately, we could spend all day shushing people in the library, so we generally only enforce this when someone makes a complaint or if someone is being particularly disruptive.  I would also suggest checking out a laptop and Ethernet cable and heading to the glassed-in room on the lower level- this room is always very quiet.

Please buy DAT books for library use.  Drexel does not have only pre-meds.  Don’t make the others left out.  Thanks for consideration!

Thank you for your suggestion.  We hear you, and will definitely acquire some Dental Admission Test books soon.  Keep an eye out for them!

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