UWS is a university with the sort of funding problems that only exist at one other university, that is newcastle. UWS students have had to change their degree's due to units/courses being cut. Also, due to the lack of money, uws has not been able to attract 'teh best' researchers or whatever, however this is not always a disadvantage -- often the 'better' lecturers are too busy to bother focusing on their classes and instead focus on their research.
Anyway, UWS is suffering from huge problems.
As for the libraries... they're kinda pointless. Most people prefer to go online, and thankfully uws does have excellent access to online resources (which are most of the time better anyway). But, if for whatever reason you love the old book libraries, you will not be impressed with UWS.