Submitted by brownn23 on May 20, 2008 - 4:58pm
500 pages per student???
I think that the library should reduce the quota to 250 pages or less per quarter.
Western is committed to sustainability practices, yet this policy indirectly encourages students to waste paper.
Read your .pdf's on the computer, scribble your outlines/notes down in the notebook you've already been using, and check your formatting/print settings BEFORE you click "Print."
ALSO -
Martha at the Reference Desk is amazingly helpful and friendly. Thanks, Martha!! :)
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PRINT QUOTAS - LIBRARY REPLY, Aug. 2008
Quite a variety of ideas and thoughts about the university print quota system here. The print quota program is managed by ATUS - not the library. Library printers are tied to the same monitoring software but we have nothing to do with setting parameters or policy for the program.
To further discuss print quota concerns and ideas contact Rick Nichols, Help Desk Manager, at 650-7928.
Frank Haulgren
14 Days Coordinator
Martha is indeed awesome.
Martha is indeed awesome.
leave the quota where it is
I am in support of keeping the quota where it's at. Most people that I know don't even come close to 500 anyway, and I don't think that anyone maliciously wastes paper just because they know they have a large quota
Go Paperless (except for books)
I think it would be great if we weren't given any free prints. We could use the cost savings to get more books, to pay our librarians and teachers more, or pass it on as savings to the students. With all of our books and great technological resources in the library we don't need to encourage people consume more and use trees. I would like for our campus to better live its environmental values and go paperless. If we weren't given free prints teachers would learn to compensate and find a way that works for students.
Thanks.
Page Quota
Not only should the 500 page quota per quarter not be reduced, it should be eliminated. Between lecture notes, articles for research papers, and one's own papers, it is very easy to use up and even exceed the current quota. I am a graduate student, and I remember a time when there was no quota.
Roll over, not reduce
Many of my professors require us to print off documents and information that they post on blackboard. If I didn't have 500 pages per quarter, I don't know what I would do. Could we also have our print quotas roll over every quarter too so we can hang on to the pages we didn't print. I mean...we did pay for them.
page quota
Unfortunately, many of the teachers have now designed their lectures so that it is difficult to keep up without the information on the slides that they provide for students to print out. I tried to take notes in my Geo 101 class, but was quickly overwhelmed and had to begin printing off the power points in order to keep up and get all the information. This sort of thing is what alot of my pages are used for.
OK - well, say you print out
OK - well, say you print out four double-sided pages each day of the week for a class.
That's 4 pages x 5 days x 10 weeks.
200 pages.
That leaves 300 pages in your quota. Unless you write ten 30-page papers or thirty 10-pagers, then you really do not need that many.
Have to print out a huge article? If it's online, then just read it online and type up/write down your notes. Then, instead of using up 20+ pages, you're only using five.
If it's an article that you're reading in class - suuuure, that's understandable. But your outside reading assignments? Mmmm nope.
Printing five hundred pages a quarter (TEN PER DAY) is just absolutely ridiculous.
4 pages x 5 days x 10 weeks is not ture for me.
I am always afraid that I would reach the 500 limited printing in the last three weeks each quarter. For example, I print for my physics lab about 20 pages per week not including my other classes.
Although I should not have problems with 500 limited, the 500 pages per quarter should be the minimum for students. Don't go fewer than that.....