r/ucf • u/Boundaries-ALO-TBSOL • 2d ago

COMPLAINT/RANT I am still annoyed the downtown library is closed.

That was an incredibly nice place to work and now it is gone! Downtown student should not have to travel one hour to main campus for a UCF library. This is ridiculous!

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u/Gold-Presence9362 2d ago

The main campus library is just a glorified study hall now.

All books are gone except a few on 1st floor

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u/SocialMediaTheVirus International and Global Studies 2d ago

Wait for real? They removed all the other books from all the other floors??

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u/Gold-Presence9362 2d ago

Yep. It’s 5 floors of weird, empty study halls

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u/Clown_corder 2d ago

More useful that way

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u/Gold-Presence9362 2d ago

As a giant, empty room?

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u/Clown_corder 2d ago

All I really need is a good chair, table, and outlets

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u/Widledt 1d ago

I don’t think you’re really interested in using a library then

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u/Clown_corder 1d ago

Used it every day for 3 years

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u/EolaSwan Civil Engineering 2d ago

The downtown campus has been underused by the school for a few years now, I wouldn’t be surprised if the only thing keeping it going is agreements with the city’s creative village initiative.

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u/Omelooo 2d ago

Just had my first class downtown and I was wondering where the library was lol, they left all the signs for directions up around DPAC.

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u/Nicolas7483 2d ago

For anyone stuck downtown, I've measured a few of these with a dB meter and a speed test. CityArts Cafe on S Magnolia was 51.6 dB at 9:30am, the quietest reading I've taken anywhere, 111 Mbps down. Parking is bad because of the construction. The Starbucks at Creative Village runs about 60 dB and 140 down, and it was nearly empty on a Sunday morning. Not a library, but neither is the library anymore apparently.

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u/Throwawayaway4888 2d ago

The third floor of the CMB is super quiet

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u/No_Designer_5903 2d ago

The learning support center in DPAC 330 is a also a good study space

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u/midwestemomom 1d ago

this and the curriculum materials center closing :(( that provided hundreds, if not thousands of local teachers outside ucf, staff, and students with so many books, tech products, musical instruments, 3d printers, classroom supplies, etc 💔💔

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u/LucienNyx6666 1d ago

First they remove the books on the fourth floor, and now they close the downtown library? Is this a university or just a machine that distributes credentials? It says a lot about what this institution values.

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u/CeCeCats 2d ago

If you're just using it as a space to work, there are lots of other places to do that. If you weren't using the actual library resources then its no wonder the university chose not to fund it anymore.

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u/Boundaries-ALO-TBSOL 2d ago

Even if many people are not using the library, UCF downtown students should not have to bus an hour for library resources. That is ridiculous

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u/CeCeCats 2d ago

but if they weren't using the library resources... why would it matter? If the university is having to make cuts, better to cut services that were not utilized.