Comments & Feedback from GWC Students

The GWC Library welcomes and appreciates all comments from students. In this blog posting, we want to share some of our most recent comments & our responses.

Question:
1. I believe that there needs to be computers set aside with a time limit (i.e. 5 minutes) so that students who need to check their campus email are not impeded by others who want to use provided computers for other than educational endeavors.

Response to #1: Thank you for this comment, I agree it would be nice to have such a station. The computers with internet, at this point, are first come first served. Attached is the library policy on computers and their use. http://www.goldenwestcollege.edu/library/pdf/tlcpolicy2.pdf
Additionally, when the computers get busy, librarians do try to make announcements that the computers are primarily for education-related projects.

Questions:
2. More computers
3. Please, We need more computers for the students. Thank you.

Response to #2 and #3: I agree. We hope to have our second computer classroom back in service for student’s to use to work on assignments by spring session. However, until that time we hope that students curtail their recreational use (ex: Myspace).

Question:
4. There is a need for more student computers in the library. When checking out a reserved book, the book must stay in the library and when there’s a time limit for how long you can have the book out, but there’s no computers, your (out) of luck!

Response to #4: See response above, and we have asked for additional reserve book money
from the Association Students, the hope is that for items that have heavy use – we could purchase a second copy of the reserve textbook that can be taken out of the library.

Question:
5. I believe by having the library open on the weekends we will be able to finish most of our works and turning it on time. Thank you.

Response to #5: We are looking into this possibility, but in light of the budget cuts this may have to wait for a period of time for us to focus on maintaining current hours and services. As an alternative you can go to OCC’s library they have some weekend hours.
http://www.orangecoastcollege.edu/academics/library/

Question:
6. The computer next to the print station is being used by people who do not want to print but are finishing papers and using the computer for other than printing activities.

Response to #6: We will monitor this a bit more. Thank you for alerting us to the problem.