By HEEJUN KIM
LETTER TO THE EDITOR

There is a monstrous library building in center of university of New Haven campus which is known as the Marvin K. Peterson Library. The library building has been designed total three levels as lower, entry, and upper level. As we know, CLR room is lower level, lounge area, charger café, computers, information desk, and group study rooms are entry level, and quiet study floor is in upper level. However, we use the library too cramped and crowded. Also, there are not enough computers for us there. Therefore, they must extend to the library or construct new library as soon as possible.

There are reasons to improve the library so are as follows. First of all, our library is too cramped and uncomfortable. Judging the structural characteristics of the building, the entry level is the biggest problem. The most crowded places among the three levels, definitely, where is the entry-level. Only three couches in the lounge area, I’m ashamed lounge called there. Tea or coffee brewing sounds and smells coming from the Charger Café, it used to be the biggest obstacle when I concentrate on studying. Not sure why there cubicles separated by independent, I still do not understand. Another ironic problem is that there is no restroom in the entry level. Can you imagine that? No restroom on the floor of entry level, in spite of where is most crowded level. The restrooms in the lower level, it is really a tight squeeze to use 6,000 UNH students. I’m not talk about five-star hotel’s restroom. We just need more room and toilets. That’s all.

The second reason, they don’t think the supply and demand law. According to UNH library website, there are 52 Computers with Microsoft Office Suite, not even 10 Mac PCs, 4 black and white printers, one color printer, two scanners, and so on. Do you know how many students attending this school currently? As mentioned above, the answer is that at least 6,000 students, which number are included undergraduate and graduate student, are here. I know that they used to rent laptops to student in order to supplement the lack of desktop. Indeed, Can they able to meet demand as much of 6,000 as the supply of this? Using the floor of entry level most of the students use the computers and printers there. We used to check email and black board, reading E-book, to obtain the necessary data from the library server, printing documents, and scanning through the computers in the entry level. For this reason, every afternoon around 3 to 6 pm, there is super crowded such as pandemonium. If you aren’t lucky, you have to stand in line for an hour to use the computer with a carrying heavy bag. Forget that comfortable waiting in the lounge, as mentioned above, there are just three couches.

The last reason, everything is threadbare that desks, chairs, interior, exterior, carpet, and even the staplers on the information desk. I talked about the physical capacity of the library in the second reason. On the other hand, I would like to point out poor facilities there. I don’t know exactly when they remodeled the library, but everything there seems antiquated. The few printers often break down easily and the Chairs in the lower and upper level are not suitable for a long period time to sit and study. Other old facilities can easily be founded such as soiled carpet and chair seats, old fashion desktops, and super noisy printers, dim lighting, and so on. Near around here, Quinnipiac University, there are two large libraries where size of 48,000 square feet each. There’s ergonomic design, the latest equipment, and modern interior. Whereas we pay similar tuitions, their environment with facilities are significantly better than ours.

I like that time on whenever I’m on my way to the library. I used to do lots of things in the place that homework, printing, scanning, obtaining the necessary materials, and meeting with classmates or teammates. This is the role of the library like we think. They should require the profound interest and investment in order to perform this role perfectly. We need a pleasant and more spacious library as soon as possible.