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    Michigan State University Main Library

    Michigan State University Main Library

    3.3(6 reviews)
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    I'm really into libraries, and this one wasn't special. The audience for this review includes:…read morebored MSU students on Yelp, and fellow library-lovers. If you're at MSU, you go to read with the library you have. If you're a library-lover, why are you at MSU when they give you this schlock? Anyway, the library does have a smell, and it isn't good. It must be that cafe that's on the first floor of every building. I heard good things about the "radical" book collection, but only made it to the extremely underwhelming Chávez section, which resembled the quirky flavor-of-the-month specialty corner without a cogent purpose in a commercial book store. (There's no way that collection is useful set up as it was. It should be integrated with the stacks.) The library is louder than even average, with frequent tour groups lacking any verbal or societal cues to act like they're in a library. Which brings me to the coda: MSU does not appear to respect books with the holiness commonplace in university libraries. The dorm furniture and bland decor create a place for blowing a few hours on Facebook with your iPod, or spreading out on a desk studiously, but the environment is working against you. Isn't this college, and the campus's best library at that? I take my main libraries with green "law school" banker's lamps and an air of seriousness. This can be rectified, along with its culture, and I hope that it will be.

    I love the smell of this place…read more No matter what, whenever I go here I am transported back in time. The smell of the books is a constant. And for learning, the library is Mecca. Check it out: Their collection includes over 4.5 million volumes, 33,000 magazine and journal subscriptions, 200,000 maps, 40,000 sound recordings, plus access to hundreds of electronic resources. Lots of windows, well lit, plenty of places to sit and study or work, well equipped with electrical outlets and even a coffee and sandwich shop. The building is almost in the center of campus and overlooks the Red Cedar River on one side, and Beaumont Tower on the other and is flanked by Beal Gardens (only one of the best botanical specimen gardens in the Midwest - where I first discovered the Dawn Redwood...sigh). You don't need a student ID to get in, wireless internet is free. Did I say I love this space.

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