Surveys

Q.3 Approximately how many hours on an average do you spend in the LSE Library daily?

0-2 hours: 8% (4 of 50 respondents)
2-5 hours: 54% (27 of 50 respondents)
5-10 hours: 34% (17 of 50 respondents)
10 or more hours: 4% (2 of 50 respondents)

Rationale reckons:

1. The average number of hours spent in the Library by the average LSE student is 4.92 hours.

2. Students seem to be taking refuge in Library due to the seeming lack of other activities to do in and around the LSE campus.

3. It is scarce wonder then that the Library is overcrowded. The British Library of Political and Economic Science boasts of only 1700 study spaces which include 450 networked PCs and is supposed to cater to over 6500 daily visits from student and staff. The math is quite straightforward.

4. There is an urgent need to increase the number of study spaces in the Library and to provide alternate activities for LSE students in and around campus. We, the students of LSE are turning into a generation of Library junkies.

Compiled and conducted by Avnish Srivastava