What a great idea.  I remember when I was a undergraduate student at the University of Illinois, the libraries would only be 24 hours when it was around final exam times.  Other than that, you couldn’t go to the library late at night.

Due to student responses, the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s Hamilton Library, the main library on campus, has made access to their library 24 hours from Monday to Friday.  The public will be able to go to the library betwen 7:30am-11:30pm, and anytime not on those times, patrons must show a valid UH ID card.  If you don’t have a valid UH ID card and you are still in the library past 11:30pm, if the security guard asks you for one and you don’t have one, you will be asked to leave.

I think this a great way for UH students and faculty to have access to the library in the after hours.  Some people are so consumed with stuff to do in the day and night that they aren’t able to make it to the library in time, or only have little time before the library closes.  This allows students and faculty to make full use of their time with the library now open 24 hours a day.

This also shows that the University listens to their students, which is hard to say for most Universities.  Slowly but surely, UH is becoming more aware of what the students want, and to me, that’s a sign of a growing University.  Keep it up UH!

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