Fisher Fishing For Compliments
Sydney University's Fisher Library is the biggest library in the Southern Hemisphere. The title of "Biggest in The Southern Hemisphere" is never so impressive since the competition in this case is probably some rotting underground Bolivian tome collection and the South African Annals of Crime. I personally think Fisher could use some remodelling, even at UTS you need to swipe your student card to get in. We've got a rare book library though, and Homeless McHoho could just wander in and disease them up! Oh well
Roget's dictionary defines "desert" as "Flat boring place with sand and maybe a cactus". Well Sydney University's Fisher library doesn't have sand, but it has a lot of windows.
Foyer
Upon entering the library, you'll notice the resident zombie who sits blankly behind his precious horseshoe desk. Sometimes they're nice, sometimes they're not. One time I handed in some mobile phone to a lovely cheery woman. Another time I handed in a USB drive I found to some dead fish-eyed weedy man who hardly noticed me due to the opaque vat of drool he was accumulating due to the "barely legal" girl to my right.
Industrial Air Conditioner
This is one of the vents which is responsible for making the library almost ALWAYS colder than the outside world. Even if it's January 1st, 2006, you step into the library with an "Ahhhh that's cold :)" but after your heart has dried the humidifying sweat of your ribcage, it's more like "AHHHHH that's cold!". So why not collect some hypothermia with your Legionnaire's disease.
The Library Reserve
It's where the poor go when they want to be smart... or is it where the smart go when they want to be poor... I don't know. All I know is here you can borrow books for an entire TWO HOURS with something like $1 fine for each hour it's late. So what makes THESE books so great? It's because they're on the uni courses' "current texts" lists, so if you don't want to pay $18 000 for a textbook, you can just borrow it. Although I worked out if you just never returned the book from the reserve, you'd only pass on a $17 602 debt to your children when you die. So it's a matter of preference
Zounds Shakespeare, get back in thou line! Just cuth thou art lacking of hair and absent of breath doth not mean thou can haveth of cutsies!
The 2nd Floor Computers.
For some reason there are always massive lines for these computers even at like 9pm. Smart people know they can go to the many other campus computer labs where there only small lines about midday times towards the end of semester... and with no 2 hour time limit. It exactly like how people choose to inject or inhale Crystal Meth.. it's EXACTLY the same as that.
The Quiet Discussion Room
This is the commerce group-work discussion room. So it's filled with people who don't want to be with each other waiting for someone else to speak. So maybe they should rename it "The Bad-Date Simulator" or "The Having-to-Entertain Friends of Your Relatives Experience". Unfortunately, there's no "Loud Discussion Room", that instead would be called "A Philosophy Tutorial" or that OTHER side of the level 4 desks.
These are the Level 4 desks. At STUVAC time it becomes an all out brawl for window seats. Otherwise, they're quite bland.
3rd Floor Computers
These serve mainly as a trap for First Years. That's because the computers on the outside are "intranet" computers. So those fresh-faced youngsters sit there for 2 minutes... have a puzzled expression... wait the obligatory "3 minutes to prove i meant to refresh my e-mail 8 times" time... then leave.
The Comfy Chair Zone
The most popular area for sleeping in the library, face the window and tune out. As some usyd girl pointed out before, it's a great position for overlooking our enemy UTS and playing some dramatic military music in the background while the camera slow motion zooms to your embittered expression.
A lot more areas of our huge-ass library to be discussed later.
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