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Q: Have any of you ever been denied access to a library at your university?
I recently talked with a friend who told me that no foreign teachers or foreign students can use the new library that the university just built. Is this common or is it just an isolated case?
10 years 49 weeks ago in Visa & Legalities - China
In Guilin our university library had this one room which was only for Chinese nationals. It even had a sign in English and French saying that foreigners were not allowed in this room.
It used to drive the foreign teachers crazy, since this university was more of a second-rate technical institute.
Eventually, the consensus was that it is really an empty room and the sign is up merely to drive us crazy with curiosity....
No, never in a million years would I be denied going to a library that was located at a University that I was attending. Well, back then you did need your library card or your student ID card to use the computers that was all with the current updated sticker to prove you were attending classes that semester unless you were an alumni, then you can enjoy all the benefitts!! (
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TedDBayer:
What do you use books for, so you can sit higher at a table?
last year i was a bit stuck on reading material - before getting the electronic book. I asked a student if i could borrow an english language book from the library. It was a reasonable idea. However, as we went up to the sixth floor i got more and more disapproving looks from staff members and the student lost her nerve and left !
happywanderer:
That's so weird. And how dare you consider perusing such tomes of ancient knowledge.
i walk in the library at every university i have worked for with no problems, the selection is so bad, i would never check anything out anyway, in fact i have offered to donate english books to the library but they sell them to the paper collectors instead, really pissed me off, i once donated books and the school created an english reading room to show off to the bosses, but never let the students actually read any of the books.
most of the people in the library would never speak english well enough to tell you to leave and the guards usually dont want to talk to me.
the architect university had a good coffee shop on the 1st floor here in jinan.
i usually grade papers in the library when they screw me with a split schedule and no time to go home and come back.
