Overheard in the Library

Once, I was staffing the enquiry desk and encountered a steady stream of students, fresh from their lecture, who were looking for a book their lecturer had just recommended. The Library didn’t have it in stock, there was no trace of it online and some of the students were really annoyed so I contacted the lecturer. Eventually, he got back to me and said that he’d pass on the details  of the book as soon as he’d finished writing it

- Daniel Holden, Faculty Librarian, Queen’s University Belfast

In College my tutors said we didn't need to reference anything from the internet as it's all freely available

- a student, University of Northampton (submitted by Gillian Siddall, Academic Librarian)

I hope that you will forgive my disappointment but given the length of this book, the large number of chapters, and the brevity of the chapters, I find the limitation imposed upon the number of  permitted chapters quite ridiculous

- a student, University of Kent, (submitted by Ross Kinaid, Senior Library Assistant)

I'm not allowed to scan or copy the whole book? I suppose I will just have to take photos of all the pages with my phone instead

- a student, University of Portsmouth, (submitted by David Bennett, Assistant Librarian)

I have snapped a photo of an image I found in a book on my phone,  do I cite me as the author as it is my photo?

- a  student, Liverpool John Moore University, (submitted by Jackie Fealey, Academic Liaison Librarian)

The library has really good wifi, would I be allowed to bring in my xbox and hook it up to one of the PC monitors?

- a  student, Manchester Metropolitan University, (submitted by Louise Koch, Senior Assistant Librarian)

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