University Library — Attraction in Lubbock

The Library is(was) an all around great place to go study: plenty of books, computers, and private study rooms- oh wait. The multiple study rooms that people paid money to donate for students to study in? Yeah, they essentially took those away from the students. What used to be an effective online-reservation process is now a completely broken mess. The rules were that if a room was empty, you could go in and have some quiet privacy to study in. If someone had a reservation online, and showed up within 15 minutes of their reservation starting, they had the ability to kick anyone already in the room out and use it for themselves. Simple, easy, and effective.

Now, you have to go and get a key to unlock the room. Which means only those with a reservation can enter the rooms, eliminating half of the traffic it used to get. If this isn't bad enough, they don't even have enough keys, so you have to escorted up by an employee who unlocks the door for you, like your'e in the 3rd grade again. God forbid you then have to go to the bathroom, and have to choose between wetting yourself or locking yourself out of the room and making another trip to the front desk, only to get escorted back up again, all because the gallon of coffee I drink to keep me going goes right through me. Out of curiosity, I asked an employee why in the world they would implement such a rule, to which the answer was, "Our Boss got bored". Yes, really. That boss deserves one slap on the wrist for making up rules because he's bored, and a second for making a rule that even those 3rd graders who need to be escorted to the bathroom could see is plain stupid....

The university library is a fantastic place to immerse yourself in your studies, offering abundant computers with full internet access. It features stack rooms for both individual and group studying, along with private study carrels available for professors and research students for the entire semester. The atmosphere is always pleasant, and during finals, it remains open 24/7, providing ample resources to all. With a diverse collection of books and various spaces including a digital media lab, 3D animation and Virtual Reality labs, podcast studio, makerspace, anatomy models, and recording studio, it caters to a wide range of...

Always study in the study corrals on stacks 2 and 3... 80% of the time its great! But could we maybe use some of that hefty tuition money to work on sound proofing those rooms a little better? I'm currently listening to a group of guys having a farting competition and talking about pooping in the hallway trashcan because the sh@^er is on the 3rd floor. Which I guess is better than the previous conversation of p^$y tightness of different girls I just had to listen to. Would love to see my tuition money actually go toward something to give students a more comfortable and less...