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2006

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Vertigo, And A Void, Mark Y. Herring Nov 2006

Vertigo, And A Void, Mark Y. Herring

Dacus Library Faculty Publications

Why the Internet is no substitute for a library.


Ah, Libraries: How I Love The Smell Of... Electronic Access?!, Mark Y. Herring Jun 2006

Ah, Libraries: How I Love The Smell Of... Electronic Access?!, Mark Y. Herring

Dacus Library Faculty Publications

In the olden days, we Baby-Boomers would walk into our university or college libraries and pause just long enough to take in that wonderful smells of high grade cowhide leather and aging papyrus before rushing off to study. There was something about opening any leather bound edition of anything and being transported by the smell to some distant land, not unlike Charles Swann in Marcel Proust’s famous French novel, A La Recherché du Temps Perdu, Remembrance of Things Past.