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Q:
Resubscribe to The Bryologist and the American Fern Journal. Important
journals-
A:
Over the last ten years we’ve canceled about 20% of our science journals.
We didn’t want to, but with price inflation running at 12% per year,
costs exceed the additional $ we got. We left the decision of what journals
to cancel up to the faculty in the academic departments, figuring they
knew what their priorities were. This meant that some worthy, but specialized,
journals got cancelled. If a department wanted to re-subscribe, they’d
have to cancel the $ equivalent in other journals.
Both these
journals are still subscribed to by WSU. You can scan the tables of contents
through UnCover and order articles through Interlibrary Loan. We can often
get them within 24 hours.
Q:
Dear Cube,
If you
could not vacume during your open hours it would be appreciated. This
is an annoyance to those who are studying and using the computers. This
includes the first Floor as well as the Fish Bowl. I would suggest vacuming
the Fish Bowl around 2 or 3 am and the First Floor after closing.
A: The custodians
work from 5 p.m. to 2 a.m. Because we’re open until midnight every
day of the week, they can’t get the whole building vacuumed in the
two hours after closing, so they compromise, and save the quiet floors
for that time. The first floor and the lounge are not officially quiet
areas.
Q:
Who is this person who comes to me and says, "The Library will close
in 30 minutes?" I know that even though this building has analog
clocks.
Then she
comes back 10 minutes later, and by way of subtraction, informs us that
there are now 20 minutes left?
Make her
stop, I know these things, and wish to study, not practice arithmetic
with her help.
A:
There is probably some difference of opinion as to what is meant by "we
close at midnight". You are probably thinking that means that at
12 you begin to gather your papers, stop in the restroom, get a drink,
check out some books and then exit the library.
Our vision
is that as the clock strikes midnight, all have departed and the door
is securely locked, with none remaining within. The announcements are
a means of imposing our vision upon an uninformed public.
Q:
Honorable Cube:
I think that
the 4th floor should be a quiet floor also. The 3rd
floor doesn’t have enough desks and area for quiet studying. Please
see what you can do. Thanks, I need quiet.
A:
The 4th floor was a quiet floor before the computer lab and
the Writing Lab were temporarily relocated there from the old Psychology
building. After the Writing Lab goes to the Commons and the Computer Lab
is settled in the newly remodeled UCC, the floor will return to its former
tomb-like state.
Q:
To Library Suggestion Box,
PLEASE obtain
some new microfilm viewers. Preferably machines that can focus and print
copies that are READABLE! I have experienced numerous troubles with these
machines and would like to see some improvements!
A:
We purchased a new digital reader-printer last summer, but quickly realized
that it couldn’t be successfully operated by anyone less technically
qualified than a Ph.D. in electrical engineering. For that reason, we’ve
relocated it to the Copy Center, where you can drop off the film you’d
like copied. Our moonlighting engineers will make the copies overnight.
Apparently, it’s impossible to invent a simple, rugged, high quality
microfilm copier, since all our nation’s technical skills are focussed
on producing Furbies.
Q:
Dear Cube
I ride my bike
to school and on days whn it is raining I have trouble finding a place
to lock it up out of the rain. We need more covered areas to lock our
bikes. Thanks, wet seats suck.
A: Is something
telling you that the bicycle you’re riding is too fragile and expensive
for a student? The Cube regularly commutes on a galvanized cast-iron bone-
shaker:
Solid rubber
tires,
No bearings,
No chain or gears,
Stainless steel seat post — no seat, just a post.
It may not
be fast or comfortable, but it can be left out in the rain without a lock.
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