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Author	zellisgoatbond
Comment	The issue with that idea is that exam time (especially the day before exams starting, on a bank holiday where most other buildings are closed) is the epitome of peak time - it's not necessarily practical to make more space for those moments, because they occur relatively rarely and the cost itself can be quite high. What I would say is that, right now, what space there is can be used more efficiently, and there's a couple of ways that could be done: * For the most part, lecture theatres aren't being used during the day - opening some of them up would help quite a bit with space. (For instance, one of the big lecture theatres in the Boyd Orr can hold around 250-300 people at once). * Within the library itself, signposting available space could be improved (since, of course, people tend to cluster around particular sections). At a basic level, knowing how many people are in the library at a given time would be a start (and a relatively feasible one since people need to scan in and out to use the library), but more granular information could be provided (e.g how many PCs are available? what floors are they on? Could they be mapped to show people where space is available? PC availability is already tracked, and this would be a matter of displaying said information differently). I know the CS department is experimenting with sensors to detect how many people are in a room - would such a thing be feasible for the entire library, to cover people not using PCs and whatnot?
Reddit Link	https://www.reddit.com/r/glasgow/comments/bg0tem/do_any_other_glasgow_uni_students_feel_that_there/elhreb4/
Created	Mon 22nd Apr 2019 2:30pm
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The issue with that idea is that exam time (especially the day before exams starting, on a bank holiday where most other buildings are closed) is the epitome of peak time - it's not necessarily practical to make more space for those moments, because they occur relatively rarely and the cost itself can be quite high.

What I would say is that, right now, what space there is can be used more efficiently, and there's a couple of ways that could be done:

* For the most part, lecture theatres aren't being used during the day - opening some of them up would help quite a bit with space. (For instance, one of the big lecture theatres in the Boyd Orr can hold around 250-300 people at once).
* Within the library itself, signposting available space could be improved (since, of course, people tend to cluster around particular sections). At a basic level, knowing how many people are in the library at a given time would be a start (and a relatively feasible one since people need to scan *in and out* to use the library), but more granular information could be provided (e.g how many PCs are available? what floors are they on? Could they be mapped to show people where space is available? PC availability is already tracked, and this would be a matter of displaying said information differently). I know the CS department is experimenting with sensors to detect how many people are in a room - would such a thing be feasible for the entire library, to cover people not using PCs and whatnot?