Comments on: Does your library do anything special for students during finals week? http://acrloregon.org/2009/12/21/does-your-library-do-anything-special-for-students-during-finals-week/ Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:46:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Robin Paynter http://acrloregon.org/2009/12/21/does-your-library-do-anything-special-for-students-during-finals-week/#comment-29 Robin Paynter Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:23:55 +0000 http://acrloregon.org/?p=118#comment-29 In past, we partnered with a nearby Starbucks to provide free coffee to students during the day for a couple of days during finals. The students really appreciated it! In past, we partnered with a nearby Starbucks to provide free coffee to students during the day for a couple of days during finals. The students really appreciated it!

]]> By: Steve Silver http://acrloregon.org/2009/12/21/does-your-library-do-anything-special-for-students-during-finals-week/#comment-23 Steve Silver Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:03:13 +0000 http://acrloregon.org/?p=118#comment-23 The library does not specifically do anything special, but student development provides many activities that individual library staff sometimes participate in, particularly "midnight breakfast" served to students by faculty/staff on Wed of finals week. The library is open extended hours during dead week. This year, due to cutbacks in library staff hours, we only had 2 of our usual 4 library staff on duty during finals week, so were pretty much just keeping the building open until winter break. The library does not specifically do anything special, but student development provides many activities that individual library staff sometimes participate in, particularly “midnight breakfast” served to students by faculty/staff on Wed of finals week. The library is open extended hours during dead week.

This year, due to cutbacks in library staff hours, we only had 2 of our usual 4 library staff on duty during finals week, so were pretty much just keeping the building open until winter break.

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