Now that I'm bumming around, waiting for HSC results and raking up a massive wishlist of novels to read, I was wondering if uni libraries are like school libraries, i.e. have a fiction and non-fiction section? I went to UNSW and from what I could see there was no fiction available. Ok, fair enough I didn't check the catalogue to see if there actually were any fiction books, but are uni libraries more reference and research-orientated than school ones?
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Yes, you will find that University libraries are primarily set up to be a resource for the courses taught and research done at the University. There are still novels etc. but they will generally be more academic in nature (English). The libraries have limited budgets and must justify expenditure.
The good news is that all Universities have catalogues that can be accessed via the Web so you can search them all without leaving home (this is the best option because it can be difficult getting a terminal in the library at certain times in the session).
The good news is that all Universities have catalogues that can be accessed via the Web so you can search them all without leaving home (this is the best option because it can be difficult getting a terminal in the library at certain times in the session).
yeah i have a friend at uni who also studies at NIDA and was trying to do some assignments for that. She needed quotes from romeo and juliet and was horrified when she found out that there was no shakespeare in our library
its a health science library - why WOULD we have shakespeare?!
its a health science library - why WOULD we have shakespeare?!
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Most of the library is non-Fiction, for study purposes.
Though we do have a children's section where lots of different books can be found.
Though we do have a children's section where lots of different books can be found.
for usyd, go straight to the curriculum section. It's a separate room with shelves upon shelves choc a block of high school material
lots of classic novels
D), even some teen series, tapes of austen novels blah blah
the rest of the library is for research purposes and not the kind of books u would want for light summer reading
edit: has all the shakespeare plays and sonnets etc as well.
lots of classic novels
D), even some teen series, tapes of austen novels blah blahthe rest of the library is for research purposes and not the kind of books u would want for light summer reading
edit: has all the shakespeare plays and sonnets etc as well.
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haha id love if there was fiction in the health science library
something like mills & boon ROFL
something like mills & boon ROFL
I think there is some fiction in the health science library, You know downstairs near the photocopying room they have those shelves of books? Most of them are dictionaries and stuff, but there is one shelf of fiction.+Po1ntDeXt3r+ said:
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Hmmm...we have non fiction type books i think...but they are usually for wider reading purposes...
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there is non fiction at the health sciemce section near the printers but thers only one set of shelves
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Your libraries about the only usyd one with a decent range of Tom ClancySkeeta said:
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As the others have said, uni libraries mainly consist of text books, journals and other non-fiction items.
However, Newcastle does have a small collection of fictional items (I know we have the Da Vinci Code!), but you'd be better off to join your local library if you're desperate for some reading material
However, Newcastle does have a small collection of fictional items (I know we have the Da Vinci Code!), but you'd be better off to join your local library if you're desperate for some reading material
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we've got some children books for education
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A lot of literature (especially the classics i.e. anything famous older than 50-100 years) can be and are classified in the non-fiction (~800s?). So you'll definetly find your Dicken's to your Dante and of course Shakespeare. I guess they'd also have newer books which are studied in the English course.
But yeah, as far as they go it'd be cheaper, more economical and easier to go to a public library. Although some uni libraries are really slack with their penalty system (like Uni Adelaide just has demerit points (2p per day overdue) and once they accumulate to 60 (per year) you lose your borrowing privalages for like 3 weeks - doesn't really stop anyone.
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But yeah, as far as they go it'd be cheaper, more economical and easier to go to a public library. Although some uni libraries are really slack with their penalty system (like Uni Adelaide just has demerit points (2p per day overdue) and once they accumulate to 60 (per year) you lose your borrowing privalages for like 3 weeks - doesn't really stop anyone.
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There's plenty of good stuff in the arts and humanities libraries. Lots of poetry, and "literature" (including Haruki Murakami) and other famous (if not all recent) work. Plus, if you can read a foreign language, there's usually a lot of foreign books to read in the languages sections. A friend at USyd studying BIT told me he's in love with the Eastern Languages section of Fisher because it means he can keep up the six years of Japanese we did at school.