> Ooh, big university libraries are the GREATEST. Mine, I'm sure, had all these transdimensional portals so it was bigger inside than outside, and the layout of the corridors kept changing, and the ordinary laws of time and space didn't apply. However, they renovated it towards the end of my degree, so it's not as good anymore - it has proper lighting now and formica where wood used to be, so most of the monsters have probably left in search of other dark cobwebby corners.
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You would have hated my alma mater's library -- the Sterling C. Evans Library at Texas A&M. How bad was it?

1. Every Thursday, there was a shuttle bus to the University of Texas' library so students could do research.

2. Every book that you would want to read was either:
a. missing,
b. lost,
c. checked out for four years by a professor, or
d. in the wonderful world of 'binding'
(I was there for about 4 1/2 years. I tried to check out a copy of 'A Confederacy of Dunces' about ten times with no luck.)

3. When the library that was connected to the Evans Library was built, they neglected to take into account the weight of the books to be stored there. The Battleship Library (as we commonly termed it) is, to this day, slowly sinking.

4. The Battleship Library has nine floors. The Evans Library has seven. Both buildings are the same height and connected via ramps and short flights of stairs.

(We called the other library the Battleship because it looked like what we thought the interior of a Battleship would be like -- cramped, dark, low ceilings. It looked like the library scene in Ghostbusters, but imagine the ceiling much lower and the aisles closer together.)

5. The architect who designed the Evans library decided to use brick on everything -- including the underside of the overhang above the main entrance. Screws in the bricks were used to affix them to the overhang. Sarabond was used in the mortar. Sarabond corrodes metal, like the screws used to hold the bricks up. People were surprised when the bricks started falling.

-Faux "It took about three years to clean that mess up" Pas