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  Suggestions, Comments, Questions, Etc...
Use this quick mail-form to send whatever suggestions, comments, questions, and ideas you may have to us here in the library. We're always open to new thoughts, ideas, and questions from students, faculty, and staff on all matters library.

All serious suggestions and comments will be considered and responded to in the space following the form below (unless you specify a personal response only). Questions and observations on areas or issues falling outside the library's authority will be forwarded to the appropriate person or persons.

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Suggestion: I would like to know if it will be possible to get Vilen Vardanyan's "Panorama of Psychology" for the library.

 

Response: Thanks for your title suggestion--reader ratings of the book that we've seen appear to be overall very positive, running from "Great reading" to "An excellent book." Books for the library, though, are selected by the professors in the schools and departments of the university, who are essentially the subject experts and curriculum developers of their area. We therefore encourage you and others interested in recommending titles for the library to pass suggestions along to your instructors.

 

Suggestion: The menu system you have is far from user-friendly. My particular issue is with finding where students login to see their book and test kit due dates. Please adjust this to provide a clear passage to logging in.

Response: Thank you for using our online Suggestion form.  We assume you mean the menu of Ex Libris Voyager, the library's new integrated library system, which is where you should go for such information. When Voyager opens, it opens to a basic search and options page. There, you can put in a general term or phrase for a quick search or choose some other activity, such as getting help in using the system, logging into your saved preferences, or logging into your account.  That last choice, of course, is the one you would select to see a list of the items currently charged out to you, check when they are due, and renew them online if you need them beyond their due date (that is, renew them if you haven’t used up the number of renewals allotted per the item type).  So, yes, you actually can “get there from here,” after all, and pretty easily!

NOTE:  After our recent system update, that opening page with its list of choices has added some information so that the access link to the My Account option is now number 5 and reads "Review your account."

Suggestion: Please make a big button on the main page for login for library loans. It takes me 15+ mins every time to find the access portal.

Response: Thanks for using our online form for suggestions and for telling us of your concern. We assume you're referring to locating the links to the Interlibrary Loan (Document Delivery) forms. If so, and in any case, we have recently decided to create a section on the home page providing quick links to the most frequently visited areas of our web site, which do include the Document Delivery links. We hope to have these in place over the next 2-3 weeks. (They'll probably be more like narrow rectangular strips rather than big buttons, though. J )