LIBRARIES: WHY DO WE NEED THEM, WE’VE GOT GOOGLE? LISA LAMONT [email protected].

LIBRARIES: WHY DO WE NEED THEM, WE’VE GOT GOOGLE?

LISA LAMONT

[email protected]

Why libraries? 1/29/2014

From Pinterest


Google 2/7/2012


Ed Stein, http://edsteinink.com


The Philosophy Hall, Strahov Monastery Library, Prague, Czech Republic. Photo from http://www.beautiful-libraries.com/6200-1.html


Library Hall of the Surgeon General’s office. From the Army Medical Museum and Library accessed via Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SurgeonGeneral%27sLibrary.jpg


SDSU Library. http://library.sdsu.edu/technology-update/group-study-room-upgrade


North Carolina State Universityhttp://www.lib.ncsu.edu/spaces/small-group-study


From Tumblrhttp://poplibrary.tumblr.com/post/63190289642/bibliophilefiles-did-you-know


From the graphic novel Strangers I Paradise by Terry Moorehttp://www.terrymooreart.com/archives/766/look-it-up-katchoo


From MakeMeNoisehttp://www.makemenoise.com/top-5-online-plagiarism-checker-tools/


Publishing Archeologyhttp://publishingarchaeology.blogspot.com/2013/12/commercial-greed-triumphs-over.html


http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2013/01/29/why-open-access-is-better-for-scholarly-societies/


DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS JOURNALSHTTP://WWW.DOAJ.ORG/


NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SCOTLAND MAP GEOREFERENCERHTTP://MAPS.NLS.UK/PROJECTS/GEOREFERENCER/INDEX.HTML


BUILDING INSPECTOR NEW YORK PUBLICHTTP://BUILDINGINSPECTOR.NYPL.ORG/


CA DIGITAL NEWSPAPER COLLECTIONHTTP://CDNC.UCR.EDU/


CAPITAL COLLECTIONS – EDINBURGHHTTP://WWW.CAPITALCOLLECTIONS.ORG.UK


ARXIVHTTP://ARXIV.ORG


D-SPACE AT SDSUHTTP://SDSU-DSPACE.CALSTATE.EDU/HANDLE/10211.10/1


Michael Measures. 1996 Geology of the Agua Caliente Region, Southeast Sierra San Pedro Martir, Baja California Mexico


SDSU DIGITAL COLLECTIONSHTTP://IBASE.SDSU.EDU


The physics laboratory at the San Diego Normal School, 1902


Chemistry Professor Morey Ring and Doctoral candidate Kathy Walker, around 1994.


The library at the San Diego Normal School, 1905


Junction of 4th Avenue and C Street, 1913

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