LSE Library goes 24 hour

LSE's library has just announced it's going 24-hour for a trial two month period, with a view to making this permanent. I know this happens in the States, but does anybody else in the UK or Europe do the same? Is this the way things are going? What next-revision seminars at 2am on a wet Sunday?



Feminism: Marxism in drag

LSE's library has just announced it's going 24-hour for a trial two month period, with a view to making this permanent. I know this happens in the States, but does anybody else in the UK or Europe do the same? Is this the way things are going? What next-revision seminars at 2am on a wet Sunday?



Feminism: Marxism in drag

Yeah, some Oxbridge colleges (Christ's is the well known example here) have 24 hour libraries; ours closes at midnight, or 2 in exam term. The UL is not 24 hour however, although I don't know what hours it is open (have yet to set foot in the place).

Arghhhhhhhhhhhh this is so typical, always make changes you'd have wished for during your time there once you have left the place! Ah well, some of the Oxbridge colleges have 24 hour libs (thought I'd bring that up at you're so anti Oxbridge-also you've not replied to the Oxbridge Social Scieces post-its in the Econ/Oxbridge thread).

I'm not anti-Oxbridge, am in fact a great admirer, but believe in robust/living in the realworld/ criticism where needed etc etc. Don't want to go into my academic background, but I have lots of personal experience of Oxbridge colleges. I was aware that some of the college libraries are open all the time, but the significance of the LSE Library is it's so very big, so specialist, and open even to non-LSE people (although the 24 hour access will initially be restricted).

Shortage of time means I can't always answer posts straightaway. In anycase I don't like getting into long-running arguments-it gets too personal-once my point is made clearly enough I tend to move on.

"Bath's Library and Learning Centre [2], which offers full 24-hour access to all collections, is considered to be the first example of its kind in the UK."

Yes, fair enough, but my point is that lots of universities (including UCLan which is a comparatively poor ex-poly) have 24hr libraries. So the LSE going 24hr is really not that big a deal.

Hmm.. yes. I think Hewie has a strange obsession with the place.

LSE's library has just announced it's going 24-hour for a trial two month period, with a view to making this permanent. I know this happens in the States, but does anybody else in the UK or Europe do the same? Is this the way things are going? What next-revision seminars at 2am on a wet Sunday?

Like mjg...hmmm...interesting.

Even before LSE, Bath is the only University to have a 24-Hr library.