STUDY ROOM MAYHEM

It's that time of the year again! Exam time! This will be my third two weeks of chaos and one of the most chaotic parts is the fight over study rooms. Are there any study rooms? I was here first? We have been waiting? Can you go ask them to get out? Not to mention the difficult task of manually keeping track of checkout times and rooms checked out. THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS THAT WE SIMPLY DONT HAVE ENOUGH ROOMS TO ACCOMODATE THE DEMAND. I propose that we treat rooms just like reserves. Rooms should be given a three hour limit by Workflows. After the time limit is up Workflows will charge the patron a significant fine. This is what happens with all other items that we circulate. We don't enforce laptop time limits or time limts for reserve readings. Another option is that we simply remove the time limit all together and students are forced to search for other group study spaces than the four rooms that we offer.
Kim suggested that we could reserve the rooms so that we wont have large crowds loitering around the circ desk fighting each other for one of the prized rooms.

TR