Are public libraries still a good source for researching detecting sites?

[Charlie P. (NY)]

I've also found a great resource at church rummage sales. Lots of folks donate books to churches. In among the piles of romance novels are the occasional limited publication bound editions of local history - business used to publish books on their early history and that of the area. I have several of these from historic places around my county. Usually cost me $1. They show where old gazebos were, picnic grounds, one had an image of a field full of hundreds of people who came to watch a biplane doing a cross-country flight stop to rest and refuel. Turns out it was also a stop for military pilot training in between the World Wars. I have found silver in that old cornfield.

 

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Library Archives have always far outweighed the net.
It will take another decade or more for the entirety of data to be "uploaded" to servers that is sitting in the Library Systems.

 

[Ahab8]

Library Archives have always far outweighed the net.
It will take another decade or more for the entirety of data to be "uploaded" to servers that is sitting in the Library Systems.

Agreed! And even in ten years there will always be a few special little nuggets of history hidden away that never makes it to a computer screen. I love having books. Theres something special about having an actual library of reference books and thumbing through those pages.