If yes, do people still spend time at libraries? Apart from students at their schools and universities, would you find just anyone going to a library anymore to find out information, or look for something that they eagerly wanted to research?
Ask yourself when was the last time you visited a library? I would say college.
Why?
Only because we now don’t need to go all the way to the library and physically search for something when we have an amazing tool called the internet and its trusty search engines.
Whenever we need to look for any information all we do is get onto a computer, or for those who use smart phones, log onto Google or any search engine and type out whatever they may be looking for or researching. There is no need to physically flip through pages or spends hours searching for something that you didn’t even know exactly where it would be or which book? Come to think of it, who even goes to the library to rent out books to read in general? No one.
But we need to stop for a minute and think here. Does the internet tell us the whole truth and nothing but the truth? I highly doubt that. Most of the information we receive on the internet is written by others, their opinions and their views. How do we know if it is completely true?
That’s right. We don’t know if it’s entirely true and that’s where the Library jumps back in.
It’s not like we can get rid of our old and trusty libraries that have helped us throughout the years just because we now have a developed way of searching for answers! Old is gold and we will definitely look back and fall back on our libraries for the truth!
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Yes. Internet tells us the truth provided we go to the right sources. There are original sites that one must look for. Take care for example advice on one's health, you will find countless blogs written there and those blogs are from non-professionals. Those should be avoided.
Yes, internet helps the readers to a greater extent but it does not compensate libraries because we can get every book from the library and on internet we cannot get every book free and in written shape. On internet we get just soft copy and from library we get hard copy can be read at home.
Library commissioners have been devouring this data. They had to advocate pretty hard this year for the supplemental funding that the city provides for additional hours of operation. It was a hard sell this year and they were successful.
I think that [the data] is why we did get the level of funding from the city because they realized how strongly we are needed.” “It gives us more information to demonstrate why the library shouldn't be closed.
I think the general public may think that all libraries don't need computers, everybody has their own or all anybody does is play games anyway… It is always nice to know that people are utilizing our resources at the library and what they are utilizing them for. That information is always valuable to make it clear that computer use in the library is important to people and it is well used.
We are always trying to build advocates in our community and give them the tools and the messaging that they need to be successful in supporting us… We’re sharing that information with people that have some influence within our community.