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| - I can still vividly recall the first time I walked into Lied Library. It was August of 2002, and I had made the freshman noob mistake of having classes that were hours apart. I took a map from my bag, located the library and sought refuge from the heat.
I can still remember opening the glass doors, my eyes growing wide in excitement as the cool blast of air hit me. There were floors of books! From my vantage point in the middle of the first floor I could see that the book stacks filled up five floors.
I still feel excited when I go in to Lied Library or use their website. Of all the things I am nerdy about, my book nerdiness pretty much engulfs them all.
If you're new to the library, you owe it to yourself to go on a tour. I was a graduate student before I went into the rare books special collection area. By the way, the best thing about being a grad student is that you can keep books you checked out for months!
Lied Automated Storage and Retrieval Unit (LASR) is just as awesome as its acronym suggests. It's a robot hand (oh yes!) that retrieves books for you. The shelves it retrieves the books from are behind a big glass window, so you can witness the awesomeness.
Twice for classes I have watched movies in their media viewing rooms. I'm not sure if you can use the rooms if it's not for a class, but I believe you can. They have DVDs and other things you can watch in the library.
The meeting rooms and booths are great for meeting with classmates for a group project or study session.
As for their website, there are so many things I love. I love using JSTOR or Academic Search Premier to find articles on specific subjects. If they don't have a book you need, you can use LINK+ to request it from another university. LINK+ books have always come in really quickly for me; never more than five days.
They also have online collections you can look at. My current favorite is vintage menus from Las Vegas' past.
As for the many computers they offer for student use, I've never had a problem with any of them. If you find the main floor has no available computers (this happens during peak usage hours), go to one of the other floors, where you should find an unoccupied computer to use.
There are scanners you can use, and the library has a media lab with many video, photo and audio editing programs for student's use. You can even check out a camera or microphone!
So to sum it up, this is my favorite place on campus. If you have the time, spend a couple hours just looking at all the amazing features Lied Library offers. One of my favorite things to do is find a subject I'm interested in and just browse the book stacks on that subject. You never know what you'll find!
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