library entrance/exit security

pathway33

Since when can you just walk into the library without swiping your card? Or was it always that way? I see the security hatch has been blocked up. Where's security now?

cson

Since I came in in 2007 it's been like that. Security is pretty lax too, I've gone out countless times with the sensors beeping but they never came out to me. Not to condone it, but if you planned it well it'd be ridiculously easy to rob books out of it.

sceptre

I don't remember ever having to swipe a card, when it opened I remember the distinction between UL and UCC/UCG, where you might be asked to produce a card. The security desk is still there behind the window at the exit.

bazkennedy

like sceptre i don't remember ever having had to swipe my card

pervertedcoffee

They do call you over but if you ignore them (I haven't other people have) they don't do anything about it. What's really annoying is how it beeps every five seconds but apparently when you're checking out books with the self service you need to make sure the spine brushes up against the side because that's where the magnets are!! I've never had any trouble since.

whitey21

I have seen people being id'ed on the way in before! It was on back about 3 years ago...not too sure why...but the other time they were doing it was that school kids were usin the library to study for their leavin cert

1huge1

I haven't been to the library since last May or so, but there was no thing to swipe your id cards.
Have they introduced this? Sure will put off a lot of leaving Cert's.

onedoubleo

The only time I have seen them ask for ID cards a lot is when the mocks are on and the place just fills with secondary schools students.

And I have seen on loads of occasions when people make the sensor go off and they look around for two seconds then leave. The sensor works by charging a metal rod inside the book so if you don't fully charge it(by using the magnets) then it will go off. The self check out computer screen tells you this but people don't read whats in front of them.

bazkennedy

So would people prefer having to swipe in and out???