What's the most effective method to suggest that the library subscribe to something? The newspapers are cool and all, but they have a whole bunch of crap while at the same time notable exceptions from really important papers that I want to see there.

4/30/2008 11:54:43 AM

Mens Health?

4/30/2008 12:36:00 PM

God dammit, I already made the scrotum issues thread

4/30/2008 12:56:52 PM

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"really important papers "

Which papers do you want to read?

4/30/2008 3:25:20 PM

REALLY IMPORTANT ONES

4/30/2008 4:02:21 PM

Did you try asking a librarian what to do?

4/30/2008 4:09:27 PM

you can request a purchase from the library website. Don't know if that is "the most effective method" though.

4/30/2008 4:12:46 PM

hustler?

4/30/2008 4:54:28 PM

they have like a UNC/Chapel Hill paper there. It's embarrassing.

4/30/2008 10:37:07 PM

they also have periodicals on microfiiiiiiiiiiiiiccccccchhhhhhhhheee...

[Edited on April 30, 2008 at 11:50 PM. Reason : f]

4/30/2008 11:50:07 PM

i'm sure girls get their periodical all the time at the library

4/30/2008 11:52:42 PM

^^^

yes, it's embarrassing to be informed about the world around you.

5/1/2008 12:13:34 AM

what paper do you want exactly? They have papers from like India and China, plus all the major US markets.

I'm sure if you had a valid request and could show that it would be utilized by others, and not just yourself, they would consider it.

5/1/2008 12:39:14 AM

Actually I want to get a Japanese newspaper there. And yes, i can get faculty and students to vouch for the usefulness/need.

You know, we have Korean and Chinese papers available for anyone to take at the entrance to the library. I don't want to start comparing number of speakers, prominence of languages, etc., but suffice it so say Japanese is of a comparable scale to Korean.

Don't get me wrong, I think it's GREAT that we have free Korean literature. In fact, I think that is one language we have sufficiently covered. Plus, we certainly have a LOT of South Korean researchers at NCSU. For Japanese, however, we have one Japanese language journal and then one magazine that had its subscription expire, and one more still going.

And, I really don't care what's happening in Chapel Hill as much as say... Garner. That would be more important to me.

5/1/2008 1:58:03 AM

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"And yes, i can get faculty and students to vouch for the usefulness/need."

It seems like you know what to do. Getting a petition / signature sheet going would be a good idea. Also, look on the library website. There are different people in charge of different collections. There is probably one for periodicals / foreign languages.

Good luck. Let us know how it turns out.

5/1/2008 2:29:05 AM

how many of those actually get read? sheesh...such a waste of our tuition money

5/1/2008 12:25:03 PM

what?

5/1/2008 6:55:02 PM

^^ indeed, perhaps my time would be better spent trying to get them to trash all the other ones.

Or maybe that XBox....

5/8/2008 9:42:27 PM

but the xbox gets used

5/8/2008 11:02:56 PM

Trash the Xbox, and all that expensive new ugly furniture, and half the periodicals in there.

5/9/2008 4:12:24 AM

doesen't nearly every newspaper on the planet also publish online?

5/9/2008 11:29:23 AM