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24 Hour Library

  • 18-05-2012 5:20pm
    #1
    ProperDeadly
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    Anybody got any idea what time I'd need to be in on Sunday morning to get a seat in the 24-hour?


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  • #2
    bythewoods
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    Ah it's after getting fairly quiet now because most people are finished exams. Definitely wouldn't have to be in before 9.


  • #3
    EuropeanSon
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    ProperDeadly wrote: »
    Anybody got any idea what time I'd need to be in on Sunday morning to get a seat in the 24-hour?
    There were seats free all day today, that will most probably be the case on Sunday too.


  • #4
    wexflyer
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    ProperDeadly wrote: »
    Anybody got any idea what time I'd need to be in on Sunday morning to get a seat in the 24-hour?

    Help me here. I know times have changed since the pre-historic era when I was in college three decades ago, but are you really saying that today's generation are so dedicated that you can't get a seat in the library early on a Sunday morning after the end of exams? Has Ireland really changed that much?


  • #5
    PurpleFistMixer
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    wexflyer wrote: »
    Help me here. I know times have changed since the pre-historic era when I was in college three decades ago, but are you really saying that today's generation are so dedicated that you can't get a seat in the library early on a Sunday morning after the end of exams? Has Ireland really changed that much?
    Exams aren't over yet.


  • #6
    Abby19
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 299 ✭✭Abby19


    wexflyer wrote: »
    Help me here. I know times have changed since the pre-historic era when I was in college three decades ago, but are you really saying that today's generation are so dedicated that you can't get a seat in the library early on a Sunday morning after the end of exams? Has Ireland really changed that much?

    The 24 hour is only one floor of the Ussher that can be accessed from outside without going through the library. It is effectively an undergraduate reading room as you cannot access library books so you bring your own. It has around 70-80 desks and is the only study space available to most outside the quite restricted TCD library schedule. 70-80 desks for what 12,000 undergraduate can get a bit tight, particularly around exam time.

    And some of us don't finish exams till June 14/15 :(


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  • #7
    Lisandro
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    ProperDeadly wrote: »
    Anybody got any idea what time I'd need to be in on Sunday morning to get a seat in the 24-hour?

    Is the 24-hour room that busy? I don't mean with claimed seats, I mean actual people sitting at desks. I don't use the 24-hour reading room, but I know some people come in early in the morning, put their stuff there and leave for hours. If people are doing this, just clear a desk when you're certain the occupant has been gone for an unduly long time, you shouldn't have to get in early to get around that. I don't rule out the 24-hour room actually being packed to full capacity, but it doesn't sound like it would be this late in the exam period.


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