Norlin Library — Attraction in Boulder

Interesting that the library of an academic institution has considerably less operating hours than the recreational center 200 feet away from it. Students can barely find time to study on the weekend, and study rooms are even more sparse. I wish the school would treat the library as a priority. There is a reason Boulder retains such high amounts of eating disorders, and other mental health issues relating to body image. Small things like this matter. Closing at 8pm on Sunday is laughable and to be closed on Saturday is the most egregious thing I have ever heard. If you are in charge of the library, you need to put your foot down and get yourself a bigger budget to work with if that is your limiting factor. Matter of factly, maybe you can work with transportation services since they appear to be "underfunded" as well with the stampede coming at 1/5 the rate of main campus buses. The school finds money for whats important apparently. You guys have something in common, and it's that there is blatant disregard for the importance of these services. Again, this is an academic institution, so I think it's important to hold accountable the lack of success the library has had in obtaining better operation hours. Do better for the students. Two stars ONLY because the everyday staff, especially library historians, are the nicest people I have met and deserve that recognition. Also, even the Boulder public library offers 10 free pages of printing a day. Very greedy...

This building feels like I had hoped to the CU Boulder library would feel: earnest and warm, a place for intellectual nourishment and enlightenment, but also a place to relax and communicate, a site of community. I have to give it extra points for the comprehensive exhibit on the existentialists they were doing while I was there, as the information provided was quite comprehensive, as I say as a bit of an expert on the existentialist movement. The library offers an abundance of cozy space to think and study, and there are a lot of areas one can access even without being...

This library is an affront to god. No matter which room you go to, including (especially?) the one’s designated quiet or silent only, people talk freely at insane volume. No one that works here seems to care. I’ve never once seen someone told to be quiet. The hours are absolutely ridiculous for a college of this size as well. If your aim is to read or study, go literally anywhere else. If your aim is to eavesdrop in on the dumbest conversations you’ll ever have the displeasure of hearing it is the...