Timetable Clash - KaBoom!

SamHamilton

I'd say it's the same for most people doing TSM. I have registration at 9.15-10.45 on Tuesday and the library tour starts at 9.30, hmm... Depending on how long the library tour lasts for I could probably run across campus to register afterwards but...anyone in the same position?

Kwekubo

SamHamilton wrote:

I'd say it's the same for most people doing TSM. I have registration at 9.15-10.45 on Tuesday and the library tour starts at 9.30, hmm... Depending on how long the library tour lasts for I could probably run across campus to register afterwards but...anyone in the same position?

I think this is the same for everyone. I know that the Medicine tour is down to start while Medicine registration is going on, and from flicking through a few other lists it seems to be more or less the same across the board. I remember reading somewhere that the tour guides will wait until everyone in the subject has finished registering, and will then lead the whole group from the Exam Hall to the relevant library.

Edit: found the quote I was looking for (see the Essential Library Skills sheet in the information pack)

Please register at your scheduled time (see registration programme). Once you have registered, you will be taken to the Hamilton
or Berkeley Library, as appropriate, for your tour.

Papillon87

SamHamilton wrote:

I'd say it's the same for most people doing TSM. I have registration at 9.15-10.45 on Tuesday and the library tour starts at 9.30, hmm... Depending on how long the library tour lasts for I could probably run across campus to register afterwards but...anyone in the same position?

As far as I recall from last year, the tour is on repeatedly for the first couple of weeks, and you can pop along to any one that suits you if you can't make your scheduled one......I think Anyone care to confirm or shoot me down?!

Can you not just go to any tour? I remember tagging along with a bunch of randomers - nobody was checking what course I was from or anything. If I am wrong about this, I would just go to registration, missing that causes a lot of headaches whereas missing the library tour isn't that big a deal.

Registration = essential. Library tour != essential. Though it might be a good idea. Just go whenever as Izzy mentioned.

SamHamilton

Just go whenever as Izzy mentioned.

The only thing about that is if I was to take the tour with the business students for example it could be a totally different tour of a totally different library than the tour for English.

I remember reading somewhere that the tour guides will wait until everyone in the subject has finished registering, and will then lead the whole group from the Exam Hall to the relevant library.

I just read through the dozens of pages sent to us and they say:

"Once you have registered, you will be taken to the Berkeley Library for your tour".

That seems like an organisational nightmare (I'm a complete freak about that stuff due to the 4/5? years I've spent working on French courses) but okay.
I'll just be a sheep for the day and follow the flock.

Time Magazine

SamHamilton wrote:

The only thing about that is if I was to take the tour with the business students for example it could be a totally different tour of a totally different library than the tour for English.

Well not really. I can't really remember the library tour (it was non-eventful; though I'd love to have heard Ruth Potterton refer to the cement weight-bearers in the orientation space as "lap-dancing poles", which a friend of mine assures me occurred) but I think it brought me to the three libraries in the Berkeley/Lecky/Ussher complex. The only course-dependent part (afaik) is "And your books are here on Level 1 of the Ussher", which can be found here.

It's no big problem if you don't go on it, but I'd give it a 4 out 10 on importance on what to do during Freshers' Week, i.e. if you've nothing better to do.

That seems like an organisational nightmare

Don't know how they'll manage that.

THE1NE

My attitude towards these things is just don't bother..
Honestly when you need 2 find something you will find it..
You don't need a bloody library tour!

xeduCat

Hey,

I worked on the tours for a couple of years. Trying to put it in writing (as they did in the letters they sent you) just makes a simple system sound bizarre. Basically, when you are registered and heading out of the hall, someone will nab you (if you are willing to be nabbed) and bring you over in a group to the appropriate library - they will hand you over to someone else in the building for a tour.

Because registration for incoming Freshers is by course, it means that most of the people in a given group will be from the same or similar course, but no-one tries to get 100% accuracy. As has been said, if you don't go on a tour then, you can join any later one, it's all quite laid-back to be honest. Just go to registration at the time mentioned in the letter, and you'll be offered a tour after you register - whether you take it is up to you, we did keep stats the last time I did it and the retention rate was in the 70%s (I think) which isn't bad (although it's also a good chance to meet future classmates which may account for some of that). The staff giving the tour are quite helpful and I'd definitely suggest tagging along after you register, if you're not in an awful rush to get somewhere else - no-one will ring your Mammy if you don't go, but it's no harm...

Papillon87

THE1NE wrote:

My attitude towards these things is just don't bother..
Honestly when you need 2 find something you will find it..
You don't need a bloody library tour!

hehe i agree...i have to admit....i didn't go on the tour either...oops...and I never had a problem finding my English or French books or ordering from Santry! The tour is the exact same for everyone, SamHamilton, whether you're doing TSM like me or BESS, there isn't going to be a major shift in focus AFAIK. But yeah, really, loads of people just seem to drift along to whichever one they can make it to. Good Luck!

The tour was pretty basic.. to be honest, its just a matter of finding which floor / lib the books for your course are in..

What are good are the online databases such as JSTOR, they have tutorials during lunch for the them in Freshers week I think