People who cant scan their student card into the Library

insert-gear

It's getting ridiculous at this stage. Just put it flat on the scanner at the bottom, below the red line and slide it forward slowly. Works every time. All this jiggling and moving it backwards does my nut in.

Is it just me or were the queues not this bad last year?

Raphael

Chucky the tree wrote: »

<Unwarranted Personal Abuse>

And you're banned for a week.

Funny old world, innit?

Breezer

Can I go on a long rant here too?

It is mildly annoying I guess, and a little amusing, but there's worse troubles OP. If it really bothers you try the Health Sciences library, where the staff have put up a detailed guide on how to scan in and out...

dyl10

insert-gear wrote: »

It's getting ridiculous at this stage. Just put it flat on the scanner at the bottom, below the red line and slide it forward slowly. Works every time. All this jiggling and moving it backwards does my nut in.

Is it just me or were the queues not this bad last year?

The scanners to enter the library are in **** order this year.
Mine works fine pretty much every time but I've seen people scan them properly and just getting no response from the machine.

littlefriend

I always have problems with my card going in to the library. Its really annoying particularly when ppl behind you are tutting etc.

IndigoStarr

I used to be one of those whiny people until it kept happening to me this year. Library staff explained that it's a problem to do with the new student cards that last the entirity of your programme. The printers used at the start of the year didn't print the barcodes strongly enough on certain cards and that's why it's been worse this year.

Maybe you should consider that not everyone is an idiot who can't get into the library. I'd also get off the high horse if I were you

fillmore jive

Doesn't bother me at all, as I'm in no rush to get into that library.

Chet T16

The one furthest from the stairs seems worst but they're both crap. The new cards do seem very blurry

RichTea

I used to have problems with it. It's a problem with the card more often than the person scanning it OP.

SmashingPilot

I just do it on purpose to annoy people. The people who come on Boards to give out about it specifically. Good to see my hard work is paying off.

bnt

One trick that has worked for me, a few times: drop the card from a few cm, straight on to the centre of the reader.

KeyLimePie

Actually I think it's the machine's because I have problems going in but never going out...

dyl10

KeyLimePie wrote: »

Actually I think it's the machine's because I have problems going in but never going out...

This is true. I've never seen someone get stuck on the way out.

The Agogo

Mine has also worked fine for my first three years...now though, you can clearly see that the barcode is 'feathered' - like a printer that ran out of ink.

Sometimes it scans as "User not recognised" on the way out. It's definitely the new cards OP.

I fully agree with Chucky the Tree (STUYHR)

smk89

Breezer wrote: »

If it really bothers you try the Health Sciences library, where the staff have put up a detailed guide on how to scan in and out...

I find that really insulting to my intelligence that they have an almost step by step guide. But I guess some idiots still manage to get it wrong with the instructions in front of them

muffinman

smk89 wrote: »

I find that really insulting to my intelligence that they have an almost step by step guide. But I guess some idiots still manage to get it wrong with the instructions in front of them

You're easily insulted

kinaldo

smk89 wrote: »

I find that really insulting to my intelligence that they have an almost step by step guide. But I guess some idiots still manage to get it wrong with the instructions in front of them

They also have step by step guides in the toilets on how to dry your hands - for those that wash presumably.

smk89

Come on any simpler and they would include instruction on how to use your arms

kinaldo wrote: »

They also have step by step guides in the toilets on how to dry your hands - for those that wash presumably.

That was actually really useful tbh. Now I know how to properly wash my hands

Raphael

Breezer wrote: »

Can I go on a long rant here too?

It is mildly annoying I guess, and a little amusing, but there's worse troubles OP. If it really bothers you try the Health Sciences library, where the staff have put up a detailed guide on how to scan in and out...

I completely disagree.

TDOie

smk89 wrote: »

I find that really insulting to my intelligence that they have an almost step by step guide. But I guess some idiots still manage to get it wrong with the instructions in front of them

1. Walk up to machine.
2. Look at guide intensely.
3. Continue to study it.
4. Slowly attempt each step.
5. Fail at the last step.
6. Quickly place each hand on the side of your head.
7. Scream "Oh god, NOT AGAIN!"
8. ??????
9. PROFIT!

smk89

TDOie wrote: »

1. Walk up to machine.
2. Look at guide intensely.
3. Continue to study it.
4. Slowly attempt each step.
5. Fail at the last step.
6. Quickly place each hand on the side of your head.
7. Scream "Oh god, NOT AGAIN!"
8. ??????
9. PROFIT!

Must print this out and put it outside the library!
I feel karma will bite me in the ass and make me one of them. But hey I wont be in the library for at least another... 5 months

RandolphEsq

lol any bit of liquid on the scanners fcuks them up!

Racing through the turnstiles is the way forward

insert-gear

Also... there are always more people trying to get into the library than there are getting out...why 3 turnstiles going out and two going in?

fillmore jive

insert-gear wrote: »

Also... there are always more people trying to get into the library than there are getting out...why 3 turnstiles going out and two going in?

Dunno, maybe if they needed to evacuate the library it'd be faster with 3 turnstiles?

Zuffer

fillmore jive wrote: »

Dunno, maybe if they needed to evacuate the library it'd be faster with 3 turnstiles?

In other buildings I've been in with turnstiles, during a fire drill both the in and out turnstiles are opened up by folding down the barriers, allowing fast exit via both the in and out way. Assuming best practice in the fire and safety area by UCD I'd have to assume the same applies.

Therefore this doesn't seem to explain it.

Mr.Nice Guy

I have been in this college several years and never had problems getting into the library until this year where it now at times takes me a couple of swipes to be let through. It's the machine imo.

Raphael

There's no space to have a long queue to leave the library?

muffinman

i assume it's something to do with the disabled access.. would make more sense to have it on the far side no?

Tea-a-Maria

insert-gear wrote: »

Also... there are always more people trying to get into the library than there are getting out...why 3 turnstiles going out and two going in?

When the library's closing there's often fairly large crowds still around,but the stream of people going in is continuous more so than crowded at certain times

That's my theory on it anyway.:cool:

FishTaco

Some people are definitely a little bit 'special' when it comes to figuring out how to scan in but most of the problem is the machines. This year and last year I've been in the library most days, last year was fine nearly all the time, but this year the machines work perfectly some days and then hardly at all other days. And I use the same card-on-scanner technique each time.

St. Robbie

It never works for me. Once I put my Bank card on it by a mistake:o

parker kent

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

I have been in this college several years and never had problems getting into the library until this year where it now at times takes me a couple of swipes to be let through. It's the machine imo.

Its the new cards...the machines are the same machines as in previous years. The machines were grand before, its the crappy, last-forever student cards.

El Siglo

Patience goes a long way folks!:D If you think the UCD scanners are bad, trinity is a fucking joke. You have to swipe the card, never works properly.

parker kent

betafrog wrote: »

Nope, the machines have always been ****ty.

But the machines were not causing as much problems as has been caused since last Sept when the new cards came in. The library staff agree it is the new cards, they were made to save money and some of the bar codes are quite faded. It is much worse than before, the machines haven't changed, the cards have.

passive

Maybe you've got some new problem this year that makes capable and intelligent people unable to swipe them, but all I saw in the 3 years I spent in UCD was the gob****es the OP described pushing the thing sideways, upside down, or trying to rub it in with their forehead... Sadly manners prevented me from expressing my "Argh, for the love of Christ just do it properly!" feelings... But I guess that's what the internet is for.

Actually, the above exaggerations were unnecessary.. It was generally just people rubbing it really roughly against the glass, at an angle, to make sure it can't possibly scan it, and the glass will be scratched for the next person. I have definitely been stuck behind people leaving the library, though admittedly less than going in... Maybe the fact that there are more exit barriers means they get less used, so less worn. And maybe a completely new and shiny barrier is able to handle the idiotic fumblings well enough to let them by... *shrug*