Ah, the Main Library! Everyone’s favourite study space, productivity haven, procrastination station or social hangout. Words can’t describe my conflicting feelings over this hallowed ground, but I can try. Our humble library can be characterised as a prison, with its cold concrete and fellow students like myself working there until their sentence (assignment) is complete. […]
If you do this, you infuriate not only me, but a large proportion of the student population here. Seat savers. Why do you guys do this? We have all been there. Trying our best to find a seat in the afternoon. Going up and down the flights of stairs, in order to find a seat. […]
It’s no secret that almost everything is broken in the Main Library. For months, black and yellow caution tape has appeared in increasing quantities across the building, closing off toilets, water fountains and more from student use. This week, staff at The Student catalogued the extent of the Main Library’s descent into disrepair, and the […]
We did it! Eleven weeks of lectures, tutorials, socializing, working, staying warm – it’s finally the end of semester one. Well, almost. For most people, we are now in ‘the final stretch’. You know this time of year. Those last couple of weeks before the holidays, when the joy and relaxation of the winter break […]
The Main Library was evacuated around 5:45pm today after the building’s fire alarm went off. Students and staff left the building, and were allowed to return inside around 6:05pm. No official reason has yet been given for the evacuation. However a fire alarm pull station in the first floor central stairwell was left uncovered, while […]
Shortly before 2pm on Thursday, several dozen activists of the Youth Climate Swarm and People & Planet environmentalist groups occupied the entrance of the Main Library in protest of perceived inaction by the University of Edinburgh on climate change matters. According to several occupiers who spoke to The Student, Thursday’s occupation was specifically in protest […]
The University of Edinburgh’s Library services are to be expanded in line with the easing of lockdown restrictions on Monday 26 April, however not all students are happy with the overall timing and the closure of ‘click and collect’ services. With Scotland set to revert to a tiered system of restrictions from Monday 26 May, […]
Friday 18 October was National Slavery Day, and in order to promote awareness of modern-day slavery, Just Love Edinburgh, a christian charity, stood for twenty-four hours outside University of Edinburgh’s main library. Modern-day slavery is a global issue with 40 million people forced into labour. The public perceives slavery as historical and as such, no […]