The Oakland University Libraries are giving one member of the OU community a chance to choose their own parking spot on campus.

Now through Nov. 21 at 5 p.m., those who have a valid university account ending in oakland.edu and are 18 years of age or older will be eligible for the grand prize of a reserved parking space anywhere on campus from Dec. 1 until Jan. 31, according to the official rules that can be found at bit.ly/parkingspace

 

What’s up for grabs

Those who meet the requirements will also be eligible to win the first prize of an Oakland University hooded sweatshirt given away to 10 winners selected by the sponsor in a random drawing.

There will be 25 second prize winners who will win a library café travel mug in a random drawing by OU Libraries.

The drawing dates for the 36 potential winners are selected at random from a list of eligible names Nov. 26.

The winners will be notified by email on or around the drawing date, which will require a response within 72 hours or a new winner will be drawn randomly from another list of eligible names.

The grand prize winner will select a general-use parking spot that is not currently reserved.

Within seven days of the winner’s response, the specified space will be posted with a reserved sign.

“It’s a great opportunity for this time of year with the weather here and helps with the lack of parking we have, but I would much rather have the hoodie or mug because that can never be taken away,” said Dan Grenzicki, a sophomore studying psychology.

 

The survey

Colton Lewis, a senior marketing major and a marketing intern at the Kresge Library in charge of promotion for the giveaway, said its the driving force behind an initiative to fill students in on several services at the Kresge Library and the library’s website.

“We are looking to get student input on the services of the Kresge Library and fill them in on things that they don’t know,” Lewis said.

The survey will be broken down into three parts that include questions about specific services, how students view the services and how useful these services are to the student.

“I love going to Kresge because they have an abundance of textbooks and a lot of the time I’m not able to order them online along with it not being your typical quiet library,” said Brian MacDougall, a sophomore pre-business major.

Participants will be automatically entered after filling out the University Libraries User Survey that was issued to all students with a valid OU email address Oct. 29.

 

Gaining input

“Our main goal with student input is to help build on the services of the library,” Lewis said. “There are so many that our students don’t know about and we want to fill that informational gap.”

Students are only allowed to enter once. All winners must present a current Oakland University I.D. in order to claim their prize.