The part of
college libraries where
professors can have books put on
reserve. This means that these
books, which are critical to whatever
class the professor is teaching and need to be
accessible to all the
students. In order to facilitate this, the
Oberlin College reserve room only lets out books that are on reserve for
3 hours, and charges $1.50 an hour for every hour the books are
overdue. In
theory this makes it possible for the professors to make books that are
out of print or otherwise inaccessible to the students accessible, thereby
improving the quality of the course for everyone.
In
practice this means that the people who are too cheap to buy books that are required for the class(ie
me) will end up paying the cost of the books in
overdue fines to the library.
Goddamnit. I now owe the library $
42.00 in overdue fines, which isn't a lot of
money, but I'd just as soon not give it to the
library. I would just blow the fines off, but I just got an
email informing that I had better pay those fines
PDQ or I won't be
enrolling next year over some stupid late fees.
Goddamnit.