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    MSU Main Library - Grading papers while my daughter studies

    MSU Main Library

    3.8(6 reviews)
    3.0 mi

    Hey if you like books and a place that's quiet, this could be it. They have many collections of…read morebooks, comics, and maps. A trip Worth the adventure.

    A part of my soul remains forever trapped inside this building. This place and the Engineering…read moreBuilding were my 2nd and 3rd homes while at MSU. The MSU main library has everything you need for research and study. It contains the vast majority of the University's library collection. It also has tons of study locations from loud to quiet, comfy or torturous. The Sparty's cafe stays open late, and open 24 hours during finals. The computers here stink. MSU computers take FOREVER to log in. I have no idea why. There always seems to be a large amount that are not functioning properly. Compared to those available for Engineering students in the Engineering Building, they're flat out awful. The place is over 50 years old and it's really starting to show in some areas. Regardless, they keep it in pretty good shape and it serves its purpose well. As with all university libraries, they need to keep transitioning from being a place for research to a place to study. Hardly anyone goes to the library anymore to search for a book they need. The stacks should be condensed to free up more space for study nooks. They also need to put more electrical outlets in to account for the fact that everyone has a computer now. Piece of advice: Bring a power strip and extension cord with you if the Library is busy. This way you can make a table far from an outlet work and make an outlet that someone else was already using help out multiple people.

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    Michigan State University Main Library

    Michigan State University Main Library

    3.3(6 reviews)
    3.0 mi

    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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