(March 9, 2009) – When I was in high school, I had to wrangle a ride all the way to town to do research at the public library.  In college, I had to hike across campus to visit the school library.  As an adult, I had to drive all the way to a public library and deal with the odd hours it was open.

To do research now, it’s much simpler.  I could turn to Google, but those folks don’t do any fact checking.  Instead I use LibrarySpot.com.

It’s a free site that you can search, or you can follow links to medical, law and government libraries of all sorts.  It also offers a K-12 library.  The site also features links to book reviews, thousands of newspapers in the US, and more newspapers internationally.  You can even sort by country.

Did I mention that it’s free?