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Long title…took me all of forty seconds to think of it, and five minutes to make sure it looked somewhat coherent. To the topic at hand, the library at Baruch was certainly much more accomodating than I had initially expected. I had taken a walk in the library prior to the tour and didn’t really look around much, so much of the information was relatively new to me. The option to rent textbooks and laptops for various periods of time is an idea that I had thought would never come to fruition, especially in the society we live in today. Having only seen a little of the actual texts in the library, I can assume that there is material in every subject from every corner of the globe that students borrow, read, and learn from every day of their life at Baruch. It goes without saying that the library is extremely quiet, and with comfortable enough furniture to enjoy a quick nap, I expect friends to make frequent trips to the library. Also, the idea of study rooms that can be rented out is a great idea, albeit I doubt that there will be an available room as finals and midterms loom. As resourceful and powerful the internet can be, I feel that Baruch makes information accessable to those less technologically inclined or those with computers that happened to “break down” a few days before a paper is due.

Well so after reading Mordi’s post with the whole sociology input I feel like mine would be like a bummer to read because it would just be like the library was cool. lol WELL anyhoo, the library was cool. I think it’s the only library I know of that has a spiral staircase and I LOVE spiral staircases! It was probably the first thing I noticed once I walked right in. It literally distracted me when I needed to look for a book that day. Well, so moving on! Yeah, I’m get pretty distracted when I’m on blogs especially after I found out about tumblr. But LIBRARY! I thought the study rooms would be really convenient especially when tests and papers start to come one after another. The borrowing of laptops seem pretty cool too, especially if I wouldn’t want to bring mine one day I could still have one on hand for a couple of days even. The chairs look really comfy too, I already fell asleep one time on one of my breaks! I guess that’s about it, I really think the library was really cool, going to be very useful and HUGE! Don’t forget about the spiral staircase too!

Baruch’s library was beautiful; it was the first time I saw it. I’m not really a big fan of libraries, but this one made me feel like I was at home (well at least the couches did). The meeting rooms were very neat and very convenient as well, talk about a go hard CUNY. I don’t know what else to write so I’m gonna say that it was very nice of Aiman to give us a tour around the library  and I hope we can–as block buddies and new friends–get some social cohesion going on (as Emile Durkheim would put it) in the library before quizzes, midterms, and finals.

I thought that the library tour today was pretty informative. Having gone in there a couple times to study, I already knew about most of the services that we covered. However it was still good to hear about them from someone who has used them extensively. One thing I didn’t know about was the study rooms, which seem like a really good place to go if you’re working on a deadline or with others. I also liked that there were a lot of couches for sleeping.

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