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Old Search Engine, the Library, Tries to Fit Into a Google World

SAN FRANCISCO, June 20 ââ?¬â? Katarina Maxianova, who received her bachelor’s degree in comparative literature from Columbia University in May, took a seminar last year in which the professor assigned two articles from New Left Review magazine. She found one immediately through Google; for the other, she had to trek to the library stacks.

“Everyone in class tried to get those articles online,” she said, “and some people didn’t even bother to go to the stacks when they couldn’t Google them.”