Welcome to the University
Library!
Some of your questions may already be answered on one of the following pages:
 Quick Links for Undergraduates
Quick Links for Graduate Students
Quick Links for Faculty
For other questions, please see below, or submit yours to our
Suggestion Box. We appreciate your feedback.
Q: Why aren't there any color copiers in the Library?
A: The University Libraries' contract with Copico provides us with all of the copiers and
supplies but does not include a color copier option. The contract will expire March 9th of 2009 at which time the
University Library would be glad to investigate the possibility of adding color copiers to our contract.
Q: The media center should be open later on Friday and
Saturday nights, when people like to check out movies. Even if you have to
open later or close earlier during the Monday through Thursday time period,
more people would still be using the media center on the weekends.
A: Our first priority is to support the faculty and the students when that
population's usage levels are at their highest.
Q: Why are you closing at 11:30?
A: Due to budget and staffing issues, the library reduced its hours
beginning this Fall Semester of 2008 by a half hour, Sunday through Thursday.
Q:
URI library computers do not support Chinese characters?
all funny codes when I tried to open Chinese webpage... URI is
internationally recognized as a university with diverse cultures.... many
Chinese students.. and other international students... are presented on
campus and library.. Can library do better to live up to its image..
installing language packet including all major foreign language.. including
Chinese.... thanks.
A: The Library Systems Office was contacted and will
install the necessary language software package.
Q: It's one thing knowing that an old building probably has
roach problems. It's another thing to see live little cockroaches and dead
ones in the basement when I'm attempting to study. Is it possible to have
the bodies disposed of so I don't have to see them? Or to lay more traps to
kill the ones still building condos? Maybe that's not such a great idea;
because that would just create more work for someone, probably the same
someone who is leaving the cockroach corpses belly up all over the place.
A: Two answers to this one:
a) If a cockroach or any insect/pest is seen, please tell the staff at Circulation EXACTLY
where you saw them. If the sighting was in the Serials Stacks, did you see it near the serials
with the call number H or down by the Men's room across from the elevator. Same holds true with any floor.
Specifics are required because when Facilities are called, they need to know more than, "There was a
cockroach sighting on the third floor." So, please, if you sight any type of pest, tell Circulation
EXACTLY where you saw the pest.
b) One way to prevent any insect infestation is to not bring sandwiches and pizzas and any other type of
take-out food into the stacks. People do leave their food debris at the tables or do not take care that
crumbs and food scraps do not fall down onto the floor where creatures like cockroaches or ants
will be waiting.
Q: Why can't we hear the people at the desk telling us its
time to leave? that overhead announcement thing doesn't work in half the
library.
A: The University Library is well aware that the Public Address System,
installed in 1993, does not reach every area in the building and should be
updated or replaced. Until that does happen, please remember that
Circulation, in order to compensate for the faulty sound levels, also
flashes the lights off and on throughout the building, coinciding with each
of the closing announcements (they begin a half hour before closing) over
the Public Address System.
Q: I don't know if you take suggestions for getting new books
for the library, but I read reviews of a novel called "Better Than Chocolate" by Bruce Golden in
Asimov's magazine and on the Science Fiction Revu website:
http://www.sfrevu.com/php/Review-id.php?id=5821
It sounds like an interesting mix of science fiction and satire.
A: Yes, we do take book suggestions. Here are the steps to follow if you want to suggest a book for the library to order:
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From our Home Page, click on the
SITE INDEX link
located in the orange bar.
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Click on B.
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You'll see a link for Book, Suggest a. Click on
that.
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Depending on which URI Library you frequent
(Kingston * Narragansett * Providence/CCE) -- click on the appropriate online
book suggestion form. Fill out the form and send it off to our Collection
Management Officer.
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