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struggle4progress

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4. There's tons of stuff I can't access easily on the web: journal papers, for example,

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Wed May 15, 2013, 08:45 PM

May 2013

will often cost $30 or $50 dollars each if you want to grab them online and you don't have access through an institution that subscribes

I adore libraries. I don't use a library every day, but there are times I really need one

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What’s a Library?: Written by a [rich] man who's never been to a library and Googles everything [View all] unrepentant progress May 2013 OP

"I don’t have a pacemaker, but that doesn’t stop me from realizing that some people need them." CrispyQ May 2013 #1

Yeah unrepentant progress May 2013 #2

I just want to body -slam anyone who says libraries are 'useless'. Aristus May 2013 #3

There's tons of stuff I can't access easily on the web: journal papers, for example, struggle4progress May 2013 #4

This card-carrying library member agrees that libraries are essential to our communities! Scuba May 2013 #5

I sometimes use the library here in downtown LA Cronus Protagonist May 2013 #6

Our library is so popular that people from other towns who have libraries of their own, go there. Neoma May 2013 #7

Must be some Friedman-esque satire, because no one is THAT fuckin' ignorant Blue_Tires May 2013 #8

I've been wondering about that. Iris May 2013 #10

I love the library Mosby May 2013 #9