Thanks for your suggestion. We will look into distributing more tables throughout the second floor for quiet group study. Please also be aware that you can always check out a group study room, even if you plan to be quiet.

Thanks for your suggestions. In order to help increase the number of power outlets in the Bookmark Café, we will be purchasing power strips and making them available for checkout at the circulation desk.

We have provided vending machines, and the cafe will provide water. But we will consider adding a water fountain as well.

Thanks for expressing your concern. Please know that we share your concerns about smoking outside the Hagerty entrance. We have signs posted notifying patrons of our policy, and we are asking Public Safety to patrol the area when they are on their rounds. We are also looking into moving the ashtrays further away from the library entrance. If you have a particular concern at any time, please see the staff at the Circulation Desk, and they will be happy to assist you.

The 24-hour café is a great idea, but the food counter should be 24-hours also! One of the biggest problems I have when working there is that I must interrupt my work to go all the way to Wawa or eat vending machine food (which is not healthy).

We’re glad to hear you are enjoying the Bookmark Café, and we share your concerns about the hours the food service is available. We will be periodically evaluating the cafe's hours, and perhaps we will stay open longer in the future.

Thanks for letting us know that the study rooms have been uncomfortably hot recently. Over the next month, we will be removing the air handlers from the roof of Hagerty and replacing them with new ones. During this time, the library (and the study rooms) may be warm, but temporary air handlers have been installed on the sidewalk to help ease the heat and provide air circulation. We appreciate your patience during this time of transition and look forward to the new air handlers, which should be much better at regulating temperatures in Hagerty.

Just saw the BIGGEST ROACH in my life on the first floor. I’ve seen a couple this week. PLEASE, PEST CONTROL ASAP! I’m here over the summer too!

Thanks for letting us know! We already have regular visits from an exterminator to help with the pest issue, but we will notify them that it is time to visit again. You can help us by putting all trash in containers and leaving your workspace clean when you are finished in the library. In addition, please report any “sightings” to the circulation desk so that we can direct the exterminator to the problem areas and call him in for extra visits as needed.

As a suggestion to add more seats/computers, you could wrap the whole circular banisters on the second floor with seats/computers, like the 4-5 already there. Also, when the third floor is finished, will it be open to all students or only law students? Thanks!

Thanks for your question and suggestion. We are currently in discussion with the architects about how to best utilize the space on the second floor, and seats/computers around the atrium is definitely an option we are considering. We will release more details on the renovation plans as we can.

Once renovations on the third floor are complete, the third floor will be open to all students except during the School of Law’s review and finals periods. We are excited about the new spaces here at Hagerty and hope you are, too!

Thank you for your excellent questions. The classrooms in the lower level (L13, L14, and L19) have been temporarily closed while they are being renovated—modifications to the classrooms should be completed by the start of the Fall Term. Some of the computers formerly located in these rooms will be relocated in the quiet study room on the lower level (L01), but due to space limitations, the rest will not be available for use. We ask that patrons make use of the hub computers on the entrance level. Temporarily, a slight reduction in the number of computers is unavoidable, but once the classrooms reopen in the Fall Term, there will not be a reduction of the number of computers at the library.

As for the entrance level atrium, we are temporarily storing construction materials in that space. For the long-term, we plan to move the Leisure Books collection to that area for quiet browsing. Our hope is to reduce the amount of noise that is generated in the atrium, as that noise has a tendency of reverberating throughout the entire library! Thanks for your patience and understanding.

Thanks for your excellent suggestion. I am happy to report that such a system is now in place. Please see this blog entry which provides details about the new system: http://www.library.drexel.edu/blogs/librarylog/2008/06/reserve_a_group_study_room_onl.html. Enjoy!

Many of us Digital Media majors would greatly appreciate a library subscription to “3D-World.” Thanks.

I have forwarded your request to Ann Keith Kennedy, our Media Arts and Design Librarian. She is very interested in subscribing to this magazine and will pursue a subscription come July 1st (the start of our fiscal year). Note, however, that it will still take several months before this is available on our shelves. Thanks for your suggestion!

Please provide online databases for alumni use. We need this to stay abreast of our field.

First of all, congratulations on your recent graduation! Thanks for your suggestion. If you visit the library in person (with your alumni card), we will be more than happy to log you on to a reference computer. Additionally, we agree that remote access to online databases would be very helpful for our alumni. As a result, we are in conversation with Alumni Relations about the feasibility of this option. We encourage you to contact Alumni Relations directly to advocate for the availability of remote access. Here is a description of the library resources we provide for alumni: http://www.library.drexel.edu/about/alumni.html

Thanks for your suggestion. We order new DVDs about once a month, so every few weeks you should see some new titles added to the collection. If you’re looking for anything in particular, please feel free to drop us a note.

We are planning to organize the DVD collection by separating the movies from the TV shows, so keep an eye out for that. While we agree that further organization would be helpful in locating a particular title, the DVDs circulate far too often to warrant an alphabetical organization. Some DVDs are circulating up to 3 times a day! So it’s difficult to constantly keep reorganizing these titles. We’ll keep your suggestion in mind, and we may decide to provide better organization for browsing the DVD collection in the future.

Please get some books to help international students prepare for TOEFL. To be specific, please try getting the latest iBT ones.

Thanks for your excellent suggestion. I’m happy to report that we have ordered the TOEFL iBT 2008-2009 edition published by Kaplan. Please check back soon to see if it’s available.

Thanks for your suggestion. We agree that providing preparation dates on the food would be helpful. We will be happy to pass this feedback on to Sodexo, who manages the café.

Your vending machines are hard to find and not well labeled. I don’t understand why they needed to be moved in the first place.

Thanks for your suggestion. We moved the vending machines to the Bookmark Café so students would have access to the vending machines 24-7, even when the café food service is closed. We feel that the first floor location is more convenient for most people as that is the entrance level of the library. We will certainly consider additional signage to make the location of the vending machines clearer. As always, feel free to ask staff at the Circulation and Reference Desks, as they will be able to direct you to what you’re looking for.